The Energy of Russia. Hydrocarbon Culture and Climate Change

Bozhilova, Diana (2021) The Energy of Russia. Hydrocarbon Culture and Climate Change. Europe-Asia Studies, 73 (10). pp. 1978-1979. ISSN 0966-8136

Abstract

THIS BOOK EXAMINES THE ROLE OF RUSSIA’S ENERGY RESOURCES IN SHAPING not only its policy, polity and political processes, but its social identity and worldview, thereby exerting critical influence over Russia’s relations with the rest of the world. The main thread running through the book is that ‘geography has played a significant role in framing how the country has been governed —and it continues to do so’ (Chapter 1) in that ‘geographical space [is seen] as controllable flows of resources, not as a territory of communities’ (Chapter 2). Russia has been historically dependent on natural rather than human resources, with the vastness of Russia’s natural wealth located in its periphery, away from its urban centres. A spatiality and materiality approach thus argues that the natural and human resources of Russia are detached from one another, and that this detachment shapes Russia’s polity, understood as broad territorial governance.

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Official URL:	https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2021.1977011
Item Type:	Article
Disciplines:	Social Science > Politics, IR, Sociology & Anthropology
Depositing User:	Diana Bozhilova
Date Deposited:	27 Jul 2023 09:50
Last Modified:	01 May 2025 14:20
URI:	https://nul.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/129

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