Craig Campbell,
PhD, University of Texas, Austin, USA, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Architectures of Encounter in the Post-Revolutionary Siberian North
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2020-5-4
This article offers a new direction for exploring the history of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. The autor introduces the term “architectures of encounter” to focus attention on the ways in which forces external to the Indigenous peoples of the Evenki Municipal Region actively designed the material and social infrastructures for cultural transformation, dispossession of land, and resource extraction. He believes that this case can be extended to Indigenous peoples across Siberia and the Russian Far East, more generally. This essay borrows heavily from his book “Agitating Images” to offer a detailed examination of the soviet “Culture Base,” built on the Lower Tunguska river in 1927. This is a preliminary and exploratory paper that is designed to lay some foundations for thinking about the affects of encounter and leading to work that seeks to understand increasingly industrial interventions and extractive operations.
Publishing: 30/10/2020
The article has been received by the editor on 01.08.2020
How to cite: Campbell C. Architectures of Encounter in the Post-Revolutionary Siberian North // Historical Courier, 2020, No. 5 (13), pp. 43–56. [Available online:] http://istkurier.ru/data/2020/ISTKURIER-2020-5-04.pdf
Links: Issue 5 2020
Keywords: cultural anthropology; Soviet cultural and national politics; Sovietization; indigenous peoples of Siberia; Evenki; Tunguska cultural base