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The Life of Permafrost - A History of Frozen Earth in Russian and Soviet Science (Hardcover)
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The Life of Permafrost - A History of Frozen Earth in Russian and Soviet Science (Hardcover)
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In the Anthropocene, the thawing of frozen earth due to global
warming has drawn worldwide attention to permafrost. Contemporary
scientists define permafrost as ground that maintains a negative
temperature for at least two years. But where did this particular
conception of permafrost originate, and what alternatives existed?
The Life of Permafrost provides an intellectual history of
permafrost, placing the phenomenon squarely in the political,
social, and material context of Russian and Soviet science. Pey-Yi
Chu shows that understandings of frozen earth were shaped by two
key experiences in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. On one
hand, the colonization and industrialization of Siberia nourished
an engineering perspective on frozen earth that viewed the
phenomenon as an aggregate physical structure: ground. On the
other, a Russian and Soviet tradition of systems thinking
encouraged approaching frozen earth as a process, condition, and
space tied to planetary exchanges of energy and matter. Aided by
the US militarization of the Arctic during the Cold War, the
engineering view of frozen earth as an obstacle to construction
became dominant. The Life of Permafrost tells the fascinating story
of how permafrost came to acquire life as Russian and Soviet
scientists studied, named, and defined it.
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