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Back to EpisodesArctic Energy Frontiers with Bathsheba Demuth
Published 5 years, 9 months ago
Description
Bathsheba Demuth on her monumental book Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait. From the 19th century through today, governments and capitalists on the Russian, Soviet, and American Arctic borderlands extract energy from a natural world whose reproductive cycles they don’t comprehend and strive to convert Indigenous people into national subjects.
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