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Katja Bruisch

@kbruisch.bsky.social

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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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Katja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social · 15d

📣 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

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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

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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 2d

From the current issue: “Dams and the Deep Earth: The 1967 Koyna Earthquake and Human Agency in the Anthropocene”

by Elizabeth Chatterjee and Sachaet Pandey-Geeta Mantraraj (University of Chicago)

doi.org/10.1093/past...

Dams and the Deep Earth: The 1967 Koyna Earthquake and Human Agency in the Anthropocene*

Abstract. On 11 December 1967, a large earthquake devastated the village of Koynanagar in Maharashtra, western India. Many blamed the new Koyna hydroelectr

doi.org

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 1d

Generative AI, in both form and content, and whether looked on favourably or critically, seems to embody a collective hopelessness about the prospect of human learning and creativity, if not human knowledge altogether. It’s as if climate change had fans.

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Katja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social · 1d

Your work truly makes a difference. Thank you!

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Katja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social · 2d

Three excellent readings on electricity from this week's "Energy & Power in the Modern World" - case studies from Latin America, Africa & Asia which complicate narratives based on Western cases.💡⚡ Students also liked the texts for the different ways in which they present a historical argument 👇

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Julia Hauser @juliahauser.bsky.social · 1d

Dear colleagues, we drafted an open letter to the conference of German federal ministers of education asking for a reform of the Privatdozentur, that stage in a German academic's career where your work is not paid - a situation that can easily extend over years.

Petition unterschreiben

An die Bildungsministerkonferenz: Schluss mit dem Prekariat der Privatdozent:innen!

chng.it

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Katja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, I want to know all of this! Congratulations!!!! Looking forward to reading it. Energy history is doing great this fall.

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Jeff Manuel @jeffmanuel.bsky.social · 3d

It's the official publication day for ETHANOL: A HEMISPHERIC HISTORY FOR THE FUTURE OF BIOFUELS. Want to know why the US turns 40 percent of the corn crop into fuel? How the US and Brazil became the world's two largest ethanol producers? Tom Rogers and I have answers.
www.oupress.com/978080619601...

Ethanol - University of Oklahoma Press

Though ethanol, a liquid fuel made from agricultural byproducts, has generated controversy in recent years—good or bad for the environment? a big-ag boon o...

www.oupress.com

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Elena Holmgren @lenaholmgren.bsky.social · 4d

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...

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 ...

www.greenpeace.org

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 4d

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

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Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas @jahrbuecherjgo.bsky.social · 8d

@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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Onur Inal @onurinal.bsky.social · 9d

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)

Germinate @g-ehr.bsky.social · 9d

We are here!!

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Katja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social · 10d

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

Katja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social · 10d

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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Katja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social · 10d

Thanks, Onur!!!

Katja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social · 10d

Danke!!!🙏

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Veit Braun @toteraltermann.bsky.social · 13d

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...

More and Less: Mutable Economies of Nitrogen I

An open-access grant application in German and English

wondrousmachine.substack.com

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vkulikov.bsky.social @vkulikov.bsky.social · 14d

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...

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

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Katja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social · 14d

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Katja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social · 14d

Danke, Robert!

Katja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social · 14d

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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Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social · 17d

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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Katja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social · 14d

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