{"id":3240,"date":"2025-12-13T09:53:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T09:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/?p=3240"},"modified":"2026-05-18T17:39:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T17:39:45","slug":"online-book-talk-bruisch-burning-swamps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/events\/booktalk\/online-book-talk-bruisch-burning-swamps\/","title":{"rendered":"Online book talk: Bruisch, Burning Swamps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Greenhouse Book Talk, Katja Bruisch\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1166604141?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"819\" height=\"532\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Katja Bruisch, Ussher Assistant Professor in Modern Environmental History at Trinity College Dublin (Ireland), discussed her book <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/gb\/universitypress\/subjects\/history\/environmental-history\/burning-swamps-peat-and-forgotten-margins-russias-fossil-economy?format=HB#contents\">Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia&#8217;s Fossil Economy<\/a><\/em> (Cambridge University Press, 2025) in the Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk series on Monday, 26 January 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This groundbreaking environmental history recounts the story of Russia&#8217;s fossil economy from its margins. Unpacking the forgotten history of how peat fuelled manufacturing industries and power plants in late Imperial and Soviet Russia, Katja Bruisch provides a corrective to more familiar historical narratives dominated by coal, oil, and gas. Attentive to the intertwined histories of matter and labor during a century of industrial peat extraction, she offers a fresh perspective on the modern Russian economy that moves beyond the socialism\/capitalism binary. By identifying peat extraction in modern Russia as a crucial chapter in the degradation of the world&#8217;s peatlands, Bruisch makes a compelling case for paying attention to seemingly marginal places, people, and resources as we tell the histories of the planetary emergency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katja Bruisch, Ussher Assistant Professor in Modern Environmental History at Trinity College Dublin (Ireland), discussed her book Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[17,18],"class_list":["post-3240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-booktalk","tag-books","tag-environment"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-01-26-Bruisch_pod-scaled.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3240"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3380,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3240\/revisions\/3380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}