Environmental historian, Trinity College Dublin. Author of "Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia's Fossil Economy" (CUP 2025) & "Als das Dorf noch Zukunft war: Agrarismus und Expertise zwischen Zarenreich und Sowjetunion" (Böhlau 2014).
Katja Bruisch
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When you come for “mineral substances as fertilizers” and stay for Soviet dinosaurs
🔥Burning Swamps🔥 book talk: next Tuesday, 16 June, at 4 PM (EET) / 3 PM (CET), in Helsinki in person & online.
Please register here 👇
mwsosteuropa.hypotheses.org/17714
@maxweberstiftung.de
"Changing society's relation to nature more broadly remains a worthy project" (206).
This by @ueberdruss.bsky.social is a brilliant Marxist analysis of energy history that deserves its place alongside Malm, Mitchell and other classics of the last couple decades.
Please share and send your ideas before July 1
Metabolic Commons: Against Entropic Zones and the Ecology That War Built
Feminist Political Ecology Workshop: Call for Papers
Ca' Foscari Univ. of Venice
Sept 21–22, 2026
organised with @antoniamajaca.bsky.social
Du bist Dissertant*in, arbeitest an einem wirtschafts-, sozial- oder umwelthistorischen Thema, wirst an einer österreichischen Uni (zweit)betreut und möchtest erste Ergebnisse präsentieren und dich vernetzen? Dann solltest du dich für den 2-tägigen Workshop in Salzburg bewerben! #envhist
On advance access: "Fossil Energy and the Ecology of Everyday Life in the Low Countries during the Long Eighteenth Century"
by Wout Saelens (University of Antwerp/VUB-University of Brussels)
doi.org/10.1093/past...
Worth reading @hannahdaly.ie's full research here - it contains some really stunning numbers.
The most important point is the 80% renewable mandate delayed by six years: meaning six years of massive gas use and emissions, breaching carbon budgets and spiking bills
zenodo.org/records/2058...
On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍
airesistlist.org
"Bruisch’s book stands as a model of thoughtful, methodologically sophisticated historical writing—one that would serve both undergraduate and graduate students especially well as an example of how history can and should be written." So delighted! Wanna bring 🔥 Burning Swamps 🔥 into your classroom?
