Sea as Land: Infrastructure, Politics and Oil in the Caspian Sea
Caspian Sea
Sea as Land: Infrastructure, Politics and Oil in the Caspian Sea
This videographic essay by Rituparna Simlai, Saadia Mirza, and Ryan Bouma demonstrates how the Caspian Sea, for so long an ecological barrier to travel has, since the discover of oil underneath its floors, been treated less as a sea and more as a territory, carved up among its bordering nations.
http://vimeo.com/82009950
Vimeo
Fall 2013
Video
Reiner Otten's Map of the Caspian (1720) detail
Anthony Jenkinsen's 1593 Map of Muscovy (detail of wagons)
Caspian Sea, Muscovy
Anthony Jenkinson's 1593 Map of Muscovy (detail of camels)
Caspian Sea, Muscovy,
Collage of Caspian Sea
Caspian Sea
This collage depicts the Caspian Sea as per our lens of connectivity through the deployment of historical images, poems, and mapping.
Alsayer, Dalal Musaed
Poem: http://www.poems-and-quotes.com/nature/poems.php?id=238661
Images: Pinterest
Maps: Group #1 (Various sources - Harvard Map Library, EIA, David Rumsey Maps)
1724-2014
English and Russian
Image
Five nations around the Caspian Sea
Oil pipelines (1991)
EIA - Energy Institute of America
Railroads, Caravan routes, and wireless stations (1921)
Karta Rossiiskoi Imperii (1910) Railroad networks
Russian Empire, railroads
This map features just the railroad network as produced in a map of the Russian Empire from 1910.
Nova Maris Caspii (1730s) Roads
Caspian Sea, Road Networks
This image shows the road networks featured in Abraham Maas's map "Nova Maris Caspii" as they radiate south along the Caspian from Astrakhan and into the Caucasus.
Maas, Abraham
Alsayar, Dalal
1730s
Harvard Library, Pusey Map Collection