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Katja Bruisch

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Environmental historian at Trinity College Dublin. Author of "Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia's Fossil Economy" (2025) & "Als das Dorf noch Zukunft war: Agrarismus und Expertise zwischen Zarenreich und Sowjetunion" (2014).

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Fossil Fuel Empire: The Environment of Post-2022 Russia and the Kremlin’s Threat to Domestic and Global Stability and Sustainability - Greenpeace International A groundbreaking report created from outside Russia following a Kremlin crackdown on civil society following the 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine shows Russia is locked in a spiral toward terminal ...

Fossil Fuel Empire: The Environment of Post-2022 Russia and the Kremlin’s Threat to Domestic and Global Stability and Sustainability www.greenpeace.org/internationa...

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This new study in Nature provides a comprehensive update to the "doughnut" framework.

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Ankündigung Artikel JGO

Ankündigung Artikel JGO

@corinnegeering.bsky.social, @immorebitschek.bsky.social‬‬‬ und Timm Schönfelder im aktuellen Heft 4/2024: Introduction to the Special Issue. Resources in Use: Visions and Practices in Late Imperial Russia and the Early Soviet Union
#JahrbücherJGO

doi.org/10.25162/jgo...

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And today is that day ✨ Today we start a new journey with the launch of Germinate! @g-ehr.bsky.social is an open-access, digital publication of the American Society for Environmental History (ASEH)

01.10.2025 14:28 — 👍 9    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 1

Well, there were as many responses as there we people in the room. The texts work really well together to introduce the idea that writing (environmental) history involves a lot of choices - intellectual, ethical & political

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What is at stake when we write Environmental History? And what is the right story? I used texts by Ted Steinberg, Stefania Barca & Erik Loomis' review of Sunil Amrith's "The Burning Earth" to discuss these questions with our M.Phil students last week. Can only recommend! #envhist

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Thanks, Onur!!!

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Danke!!!🙏

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More and Less: Mutable Economies of Nitrogen I An open-access grant application in German and English

Some of you will know that I recently got funding for a project on Nitrogen in society. I am here making my application accessible for others who are thinking about applying for funding—plus some background on the funding programme and a few tips.

wondrousmachine.substack.com/p/more-and-l...

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Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia’s Fossil Economy A Rethinking Eastern Europe and Eurasia seminar with Katja Bruisch, Eglė Rindzevičiūtė and Robert Suits

For those in London on 17 Nov 2025: please join us for a book talk at @uclssees.bsky.social. @eglerin.bsky.social and @robertsuits.bsky.social have read the book and will share their comments. Register here: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

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Danke, Robert!

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10yo is right to ask why my book is some 110 Euros more expensive than the new Diary of a Wimpy Kid. I can’t get my head around this either, but I just received a discount code valid until 30 September. Use BRUISCHK25 to get 20% off. Greg’s next adventure will still be cheaper, I fear👇

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Today is publication day!

EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism is officially out with @wwnorton.com - find it at a bookstore near you or order online💚📚 wwnorton.com/books/978132...

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🙏😇

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Thank you!

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Thank. I hope it resonates!

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Thanks, Marianna! I am waiting for your beauty in the post!

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thanks Rob

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Book cover of "Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia's Fossil Economy" by Katja Bruisch. A black and white photograph shows a woman with a headscarf stacking peat

Book cover of "Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia's Fossil Economy" by Katja Bruisch. A black and white photograph shows a woman with a headscarf stacking peat

📣 It's publication day! 🔥Burning Swamps🔥 is out with @universitypress.cambridge.org ! My book tells the forgotten history of peat in the context of Russia’s industrialization & electrification and points to the lingering presence of past extraction 1/5

#envhist #energysky

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and WWI actually

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Thank you! I touch on Estonia only in passing, but forced labour during WWII features in the book as well.

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Thank you!

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Danke, Masha!

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Thank you!

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Thank you!

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I hope you'll enjoy it. Thank you!

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Thank you!

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