Petra Tjitske Kalshoven

Petra Tjitske is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology based in the School of Social Sciences at The University of Manchester. Petra Tjitske’s research draws on insights from materiality, performance, ecological and museum anthropology and focuses on skilled manifestations of human curiosity and play. She is the author of Crafting ‘the Indian’: Knowledge, Desire, and Play in Indianist Reenactment (Berghahn Books, 2012). With The Beam, she pursues her interest in human expertise and the skilled and persuasive ways in which people seek to engage specific materials and landscapes. Read more about Petra Tjitske

Petra Tjitske Kalshoven has just begun fieldwork for an ethnographic project on nuclear decommissioning at Sellafield in West Cumbria.

Led by The University of Manchester, this project addresses current debates in the decommissioning of nuclear facilities and storage of nuclear waste in the UK.