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Amy Clukey (she/her)<p>Any scholar of <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/MaterialHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MaterialHistory</span></a> or <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/DressHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DressHistory</span></a> or <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/FiberArts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FiberArts</span></a> can tell you the value of antique textiles, and how most humanities scholars can tell you about how archives conceal as much as they reveal. </p><p>Well, the same is true of recreation. Looking at an object, even using an object, cannot give you the kinds of knowledge that comes from making and remaking. </p><p>That work is hard as fuck and there is so much failure along the way. So, so much failure, and so much reward. </p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Quilts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Quilts</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/quilting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quilting</span></a></p>
Martin Meiske<p><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>introduction</span></a> - Hello, I am a postdoc at the Deutsches Museum in Munich &amp; a lecturer at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. My broader research interests center on the intersections of <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/envhist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>envhist</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/histtech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histtech</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histsci</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/envtech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>envtech</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/envjust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>envjust</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/envhum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>envhum</span></a>.</p><p>Most recent books: “The Birth of <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Geoengineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Geoengineering</span></a>. Large-Scale Engineering Projects in the Early Stage of the <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Anthropocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Anthropocene</span></a>” (Wallstein 2021) &amp; “Beyond the Lab and the Field. <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Infrastructures" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Infrastructures</span></a> as Places of <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Knowledge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Knowledge</span></a> Production” (co-ed. Eike-Christian Heine; Univ. of Pittsburgh Press 2022)</p><p>My current project deals with the history of <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/creosote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>creosote</span></a> and railway <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/maintenance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maintenance</span></a> cultures. The material history of this coal tar oil – used until today for wood impregnation of railway ties &amp; utility poles – combines research perspectives from the <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/histtech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histtech</span></a> (such as on <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/maintenance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maintenance</span></a> and <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/repair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>repair</span></a>) with <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/envhist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>envhist</span></a> and <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/materialhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>materialhistory</span></a>. Its name is connected today with dozens of contaminated land sites, tons of hazardous waste, and burning <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/environmentaljustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>environmentaljustice</span></a> issues.</p>
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