Tabea Söregi
Between compost and Super 8
When is something garbage and why is it composted? Who makes amateur films and how are they received? Tabea Söregi deals with these and other questions. The cultural anthropologist's research focuses on media use, the history of technology and gender, dis/order and material culture. Her current research project deals with amateur narrow-gauge films from the 1920s to the 1990s.
You can argue about compost
At first, it may come as a surprise that a cultural anthropologist is devoting herself to the subject of compost. And yet Tabea Söregi wrote about "Den Kompost feststampfen. Discourses and practices of composting in two portraits" for her Master's thesis at the University of Vienna. It may sound simple, explains Ms Söregi, but it is a thoroughly polarizing topic and there are also many different opinions on what "correct" composting is, what beneficial organisms are, what pests are and so on. She also explored the different ideologies behind the motivation to compost. Some have ecological motives, while others come from the prepper scene. This can lead to heated debates.
