Energy/Waste: Approaches to the Environment in Post-Soviet Cultures
Keywords:
energy; waste; environment; Ukraine, Kazakhstan; Russia; cultural studiesSynopsis
This volume investigates representations of energy and waste in post-Soviet cultures. The contributors analyze how post-Soviet societies reinterpret and reimagine not only their role in energy use and waste management, but also their relationship to the Soviet legacy of large-scale environmental changes, pollution, and resource exploitation. By examining how categories of energy and waste are expressed and made visible through discourse, literature, film, art, and other modes of cultural production, the book aims to nuance and enrich environmental approaches in scholarship on the post-Soviet world. The volume’s interdisciplinary chapters highlight the distinctive trajectories of post-Soviet countries’ approaches to environmental regulation and representation in the last three decades.
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Table of Contents
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Energy/Waste: Introduction
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Regimes and their Refuse: Filming Russia in Transition
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“Pomor’e ne Pomoika”: Framing the Protest Campaign against the Landfill Project at Shies Station in Russia’s Arkhangelsk Region
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Post-Soviet Filmic Depictions of the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Tests
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Environmental Contamination and Postcolonial Recuperation in Late Soviet and Post-independence Kazakhstani Cinema
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The Politics and Aesthetics of Waste in Liudmila Petrushevskaia’s Fiction
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Finding Our Words: Representations of Chornobyl and the Impossibility of Language
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A Terrible Kaleidoscope: The Anthropocene Lyric in Chornobyl Poetry
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The Unknowability of Post-nuclear Landscapes in the Russian Television Series Chernobyl, Exclusion Zone
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Contributors
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Published
March 6, 2023
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Print ISSN
1501-8954
Copyright (c) 2023 Maria Hristova, Alyssa DeBlasio, Irina Anisimova; Masha Shpolberg, Elena Gorbacheva, Elena Monastireva-Ansdell, José Vergara, Haley Laurila, Irina Souch
