Katja Bruisch (Trinity College Dublin)

Burning Swamps

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This groundbreaking environmental history approaches Russia's fossil economy from its margins. Tracing the forgotten role of peat in industry and power generation, Katja Bruisch makes a compelling case for foregrounding overlooked places, people, and resources as we tell the histories of the planetary emergency.

Produktdetails

• Studies in Environment and History
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781009603089
• ISBN-10: 1009603086
• Artikelnr.: 74877741

Autorenporträt

Katja Bruisch is Ussher Assistant Professor in Environmental History at Trinity College Dublin.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction, Part I. Promising Environments: Material Premises of Growth and Power: 1. Appropriation
2. Mobilization
Part II. Working Environments: Extraction and the Making of Place: 3. Exploitation
4. Transformation
Part III. Unsettling Environments: Threat, Loss, and Precarity in Russia's Peatlands: 5. Irritation
6. Revaluation
Conclusions
Bibliography
Index.