Jennifer Keating (2022). On Arid Ground. Political Ecologies of Empire in Russian Central Asia. Oxford University Press
This volume offers a fascinating perspective on the imperial power's efforts to transform the environment of its periphery.While political ecology, understood as the study of political forces at work in environmental access, management, and transformation, has gained recognition over the last decades (Roberts, 2020), Keating's imaginative formulations of the book's objectives and approach might well excite even a specialized reader:
Authors
- Andrey S. Menshikov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1070-2551)
Institutions
- University of Central Asia (KG)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Changing Societies & Personalities
- Published
- 2024-12-28
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.15826/csp.2024.8.4.313
- Primary Topic
- Soviet and Russian History
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00