Nikolaos Olma is Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of the Aegean, Greece and Researcher inthe ERC-funded project “Anthropogenic Environments in theFuture Tense: Loss, Change and Hope in Post-Soviet Industrial Landscapes (ANTHEFT)” at the University of Vienna, Austria. His current research explores the processes of (un)knowing that inform life with radioactive uranium tailings in Mailuu-Suu, a former uranium mining town in Kyrgyzstan.

Janine Hauer is Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer at the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. Her current project looks at thenexus of extraction, (chemical) industry and landfill in the Central German Chemical Triangle through case studies that zoom into everyday practices of (not) organising and dealing with eternal environmental burdens in order to illuminate systemic changes across bodies, landscapes and lifeworlds.