On February 29 2024 at 15:00 the ESEH Environmental History Today Series will host the online launch of Elena Kochetkova's recent monograph The Green Power of Socialism (MIT Press 2024)
In The Green Power of Socialism, Elena Kochetkova examines the relationship between nature and humans under state socialism by looking at the industrial role of Soviet forests. The book explores evolving Soviet policies of wood consumption, discussing how professionals working in the forestry industry of the Soviet state viewed the present and future of forests by considering them both a natural resource and a trove of industrial material. When faced with the prospect of wood shortages, these specialists came to develop new industry-ecology paradigms. Kochetkova looks at the materiality of Soviet industry through forests and wood to show how, paradoxically, industrial ecology emerged and developed as a by-product of the Soviet industrialization project. The Green Power of Socialism also discusses how post-Soviet industry has abandoned these socialist practices and the idea of nature as a complicated ecosystem that provides a crucial service to society.
February 29, 2024, Thursday, 15:00-17:00 CET – Russia
Book presentation: The Green Power of Socialism: Wood, Forest, and the Making of Soviet Industrially Embedded Ecology (MIT Press 2024)
Presenter: Elena Kochetkova, University of Bergen, Norway
Discussant: Laurent Coumel, CNRS and EHESS, France
Chair: Anastasia Fedotova, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Please register to join the zoom meeting: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwrd-qhqT8iH9C3UOKpkSmCuTbDWyD8ng0A
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More on the seminar series: http://eseh.org/envhistoday-webinars/environmental-history-today-webinars-2023/
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