Calling Poma headquarters, to introduce myself and my projet. I get some email adresses. I write.
Buying plane tickets for China. Planing on a six month trip.
Gathering informations about Poma, who they own, who own them.
Poma is cited in Merlin - 2018.
Asking basic logisitics questions on the CEADs WeChat group, about visa, sim cards, payment cards. Also adding french contacts, present on the group, planing on attending it too.
Thinking about how to share this website on a social media app that would work the same way in france, russia, and china. I don't think this app exist. I'll probably have to share the weekly updates on three different apps, for exemple, X (for france), Telegram (for Russia), and WeChat (China). This website is accessible from the three regions without restrictions.
Calling Poma again. Apparently impossible to access the site without appointment.
Going to the Russian ambassy, to get some answers about visa obtention timing, or at least a life signal. Trough the ambassy fence, a guy in a suit tells me I can only wait. Пиздец.
No answer from the mails sent to Poma. I take a night bus toward their headquarters near Grenoble, to try to meet someone in person.
I'm in Grenoble. Calling Poma again. Getting another mail adress. Writing. Going to their headquarters by train and foot.
"Quand on a pas de tête, on a des jambes", says my grandmother.
I arrive at the security office from the Poma headquarters. I get another mail adress. I leave a message on a piece of paper, to the owner of the mail adress. I obstinately call the informatin desk. "That's not how it works", with businesses. Now I know.
Back to the Grenoble bus station, I get an answer from the "International Sales Director" of the company. We agree on a phone call tomorrow. At least, that is something.
Discovering ODSAS. As I understand, we find raw scanned ethnographic notes and photographs there.
"Protéger ou invisibiliser ses interlocuteurs : peut-on ouvrir les données ethnographiques ?", Monica Heintz, 2023
I'm in Toulouse, visiting my mom.
Calling the Poma guy. The main information is: Poma put this russian cable-car contract on hold for now, since they are targeted by european sanctions as a "luxury product".
No entry
Creating an X account. Playing with it all day.
An article confirms what the poma executive said: They left the Russian market due to sanctions.
Trump gets shot, and look for his shoe.