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Tatiana Kasperski earned her PhD in 2012 in political science at Sciences Po, Paris, France, where she defended a dissertation on the memory politics of the Chernobyl disaster in Belarus. (The book based on her dissertation has been recently published in France, with Petra.) Since then she has worked on public engagement with nuclear power in Russia and Ukraine as a postdoctoral fellow at Centre Alexandre-Koyré for History of Science and Technology, Paris, and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), Barcelona. More recently she has focused on the controversies around radioactive waste working as a research fellow at the UPF, and as a part of the collective project: “Atomic Heritage goes Critical: Waste, Community and Nuclear Imaginaries” coordinated by the Linköping University, Sweden.
RCC Research Project: Waste Futures in Post-Soviet Russia
Selected Publications:
- Les politiques de la radioactivité: Tchernobyl et la mémoire nationale en Biélorussie contemporaine. Paris: Pétra, 2020.
- with Anna Storm. “Eternal care: Nuclear waste as toxic legacy and future fantasy.” Geschichte und Gesellschaft. Zeitschrift für Historische Sozialwissenschaft, vol. 46, n°4 (2020, forthcoming).
- “From Legacy to Heritage: The Changing Political and Symbolic Status of Military Nuclear Waste in Russia.” Cahiers du Monde Russe, vol. 60, n°2‑3 (2019): 517-538.
- “Children, Nation and Reactors: Imagining and Promoting Nuclear Power in Contemporary Ukraine." Centaurus, vol. 61, n°1 (2019): 51–69.
- “Nuclear Dreams and Realities in Contemporary Russia and Ukraine.” History and Technology, vol. 31, n° 1 (2015): 55-80.
- “Chernobyl’s Aftermath in Political Symbols, Monuments and Rituals: Remembering the Disaster in Belarus.” Anthropology of East Europe Review, vol. 30, n°1 (spring 2012): 82-99.