Katja Bruisch
@kbruisch.bsky.social
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).
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 👇
October 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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 👇
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
September 30, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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
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👇
September 26, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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👇
Complicating established narratives of the fossil fuel age & Russia’s role within it, my book demonstrates that the planetary emergency calls for a new vocabulary that accounts for the socioecological cleavages resulting from the growth imperative in capitalist & state socialist economies alike. 3/5
September 25, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Complicating established narratives of the fossil fuel age & Russia’s role within it, my book demonstrates that the planetary emergency calls for a new vocabulary that accounts for the socioecological cleavages resulting from the growth imperative in capitalist & state socialist economies alike. 3/5
I foreground labour & matter as central categories to think about the social and ecological ramifications of past economic growth and show how Russia’s fossil economy placed the burden of its energy demand on people (often female workers) and nature at its margins. 2/5
September 25, 2025 at 8:46 AM
I foreground labour & matter as central categories to think about the social and ecological ramifications of past economic growth and show how Russia’s fossil economy placed the burden of its energy demand on people (often female workers) and nature at its margins. 2/5
📣 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
#envhist #energysky
September 25, 2025 at 8:46 AM
📣 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
#envhist #energysky
Exciting list of speakers presenting in our Environmental History Research Seminar this term. If you happen to be in Dublin, come along. We'll meet on Mondays at 1 PM in the Trinity Long Room Hub #envhist
Thanks to @tlrhub.bsky.social for hosting us!
@historytcd.bsky.social
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Thanks to @tlrhub.bsky.social for hosting us!
@historytcd.bsky.social
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September 17, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Exciting list of speakers presenting in our Environmental History Research Seminar this term. If you happen to be in Dublin, come along. We'll meet on Mondays at 1 PM in the Trinity Long Room Hub #envhist
Thanks to @tlrhub.bsky.social for hosting us!
@historytcd.bsky.social
👇
Thanks to @tlrhub.bsky.social for hosting us!
@historytcd.bsky.social
👇
Join us next Wednesday for our @basees.bsky.social panel on resource extraction & the company town in Eurasia with papers by Volodymyr Kulikov @vkulikov.bsky.social on coal-mining towns in Ukraine, Nikolai Erofeev on copper-mining in Mongolia & myself on peat workers' settlements in central Russia 👇
July 18, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Join us next Wednesday for our @basees.bsky.social panel on resource extraction & the company town in Eurasia with papers by Volodymyr Kulikov @vkulikov.bsky.social on coal-mining towns in Ukraine, Nikolai Erofeev on copper-mining in Mongolia & myself on peat workers' settlements in central Russia 👇
Great to see Elena Kochetkova's thought-provoking "The Green Power of Socialism" discussed in this H-Environment roundtable featuring contributions by Julia Ault, Tatiana Kasperski, Péter Szabó & Katja Doose and Elena's response
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June 23, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Great to see Elena Kochetkova's thought-provoking "The Green Power of Socialism" discussed in this H-Environment roundtable featuring contributions by Julia Ault, Tatiana Kasperski, Péter Szabó & Katja Doose and Elena's response
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Finally an occasion to show this photo. These women travelled hundreds of km every year to extract peat for Soviet power plants. The work helped them alleviate some of the poverty of their villages, but their bodily needs were neglected as they functioned as a pool of cheap labour for the economy
June 11, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Finally an occasion to show this photo. These women travelled hundreds of km every year to extract peat for Soviet power plants. The work helped them alleviate some of the poverty of their villages, but their bodily needs were neglected as they functioned as a pool of cheap labour for the economy
I refused to sign an AI addendum to my contract with CUP. Officially started my career as a Luddite, I suppose.
June 6, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I refused to sign an AI addendum to my contract with CUP. Officially started my career as a Luddite, I suppose.
Happy #WorldPeatlandsDay! Let's talk more about peatlands as places of human history. This is Radovitsky Mokh, a Soviet peat extraction site in central Russia. The images show the geometry of drainage canals & extraction fields and the partial return of water after the end of extraction #envhist
June 2, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Happy #WorldPeatlandsDay! Let's talk more about peatlands as places of human history. This is Radovitsky Mokh, a Soviet peat extraction site in central Russia. The images show the geometry of drainage canals & extraction fields and the partial return of water after the end of extraction #envhist
Returning from a few days away, I found our allotment in such beauty last night. 💚💚💚 #myhappyplace
May 19, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Returning from a few days away, I found our allotment in such beauty last night. 💚💚💚 #myhappyplace
All set up now in the new exhibition space of the Lullymore Heritage & Discovery Park. Come for the RePEAT exhibition, stay to look at some former peat extraction technology, bog cotton and rewetting-in-progress. Our exhibition will be there until 30 May.
#peatsky
#peatsky
May 6, 2025 at 7:31 PM
All set up now in the new exhibition space of the Lullymore Heritage & Discovery Park. Come for the RePEAT exhibition, stay to look at some former peat extraction technology, bog cotton and rewetting-in-progress. Our exhibition will be there until 30 May.
#peatsky
#peatsky
Our RePEAT exhibition is about to start travelling. If you missed it in Dublin while it was on in the @nlireland.bsky.social, you can soon see it in Lullymore!
April 25, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Our RePEAT exhibition is about to start travelling. If you missed it in Dublin while it was on in the @nlireland.bsky.social, you can soon see it in Lullymore!
It's time for some visuals!!! 🔥Burning Swamps🔥 has a cover. Out this fall with @cambridgeup.bsky.social
#envhist #skystorians #PeatSky #energysky
#envhist #skystorians #PeatSky #energysky
April 15, 2025 at 2:35 PM
It's time for some visuals!!! 🔥Burning Swamps🔥 has a cover. Out this fall with @cambridgeup.bsky.social
#envhist #skystorians #PeatSky #energysky
#envhist #skystorians #PeatSky #energysky
📢 📢📢 Come to Dublin and join us!!! My Department is looking for an Assistant Professor in Nineteenth-Century European History. This is a specific purpose contract to replace an IRC grant holder.
#skystorians
@historytcd.bsky.social
For more information, see here 👇
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#skystorians
@historytcd.bsky.social
For more information, see here 👇
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April 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
📢 📢📢 Come to Dublin and join us!!! My Department is looking for an Assistant Professor in Nineteenth-Century European History. This is a specific purpose contract to replace an IRC grant holder.
#skystorians
@historytcd.bsky.social
For more information, see here 👇
my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...
#skystorians
@historytcd.bsky.social
For more information, see here 👇
my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...
📣 📣📣 Come to Dublin and join our M.Phil in Environmental History! Applications for the 2025/26 academic year are open until the end of May. Offers are made on a rolling basis.
For more information visit
www.tcd.ie/courses/post...
#envhist @historytcd.bsky.social
For more information visit
www.tcd.ie/courses/post...
#envhist @historytcd.bsky.social
March 26, 2025 at 8:29 PM
📣 📣📣 Come to Dublin and join our M.Phil in Environmental History! Applications for the 2025/26 academic year are open until the end of May. Offers are made on a rolling basis.
For more information visit
www.tcd.ie/courses/post...
#envhist @historytcd.bsky.social
For more information visit
www.tcd.ie/courses/post...
#envhist @historytcd.bsky.social
There is a website, so it must be real: "Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia’s Fossil Economy", an #envhist of peat in imperial & Soviet Russia, will drop in September in Studies in Environment & History @cambridgeup.bsky.social #energysky
👉 www.cambridge.org/core/books/b...
👉 www.cambridge.org/core/books/b...
February 26, 2025 at 7:58 PM
There is a website, so it must be real: "Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia’s Fossil Economy", an #envhist of peat in imperial & Soviet Russia, will drop in September in Studies in Environment & History @cambridgeup.bsky.social #energysky
👉 www.cambridge.org/core/books/b...
👉 www.cambridge.org/core/books/b...
Thanks to @nlireland.bsky.social for hosting the launch of our exhibition "RePEAT: Reimagining Ireland's Peatlands in Precarious Times" last night. The exhibition can be seen at the NLI for the next few weeks before going on a tour across the country. #envhist #peatsky
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February 7, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Thanks to @nlireland.bsky.social for hosting the launch of our exhibition "RePEAT: Reimagining Ireland's Peatlands in Precarious Times" last night. The exhibition can be seen at the NLI for the next few weeks before going on a tour across the country. #envhist #peatsky
www.nli.ie/news-stories...
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A new term is starting & I am looking forward to our Environmental History Research Seminar here in Trinity. Join us if you're around! #envist #skystorians
January 20, 2025 at 10:17 AM
A new term is starting & I am looking forward to our Environmental History Research Seminar here in Trinity. Join us if you're around! #envist #skystorians
Me too. But I am in good company:) Get well soon!
November 28, 2024 at 12:02 PM
Me too. But I am in good company:) Get well soon!
Astrov from Chekhov's Uncle Vanya never disappoints in the classroom. Students were amazed ("He seems to be talking to us...") while also recognising the elitism of his environmentalism.
November 19, 2024 at 8:38 PM
Astrov from Chekhov's Uncle Vanya never disappoints in the classroom. Students were amazed ("He seems to be talking to us...") while also recognising the elitism of his environmentalism.
Welcome new followers! I'm an environmental historian based in Dublin writing about peat & peatlands in imperial & Soviet Russia. When joining this site a few months ago, I said I'd do things slowly here - so no hot takes from me, I'm afraid. Some Brussels sprouts from our community gardens maybe?
November 11, 2024 at 6:54 PM
Welcome new followers! I'm an environmental historian based in Dublin writing about peat & peatlands in imperial & Soviet Russia. When joining this site a few months ago, I said I'd do things slowly here - so no hot takes from me, I'm afraid. Some Brussels sprouts from our community gardens maybe?