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3 - Exploitation

from Part II - Working Environments: Extraction and the Making of Place

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 September 2025

Katja Bruisch
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Trinity College Dublin
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For nearly a century, seasonal, often female, manual labor remained fundamental to making peat available for industrial enterprises and electric power plants. Focusing on the trajectories of peat workers, this chapter discusses the seasonal nature and gendered organization of labor. It reveals that, as an embodied, more than-human activity, peat extraction was an experience marked by social inequality and difference as well as by the uncertain material environments of extraction sites, where the weather, dysfunctional technology, and the physical interaction with peat caused injuries and accidents. Examining the overlapping temporalities, modes of production, and agencies (human and nonhuman) in the making of peat fuel, this chapter foregrounds the forgotten margins of Russia’s fossil economy as focal points of the intertwined exploitation of humans and nature upon which it relied.

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Burning Swamps
Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia's Fossil Economy
, pp. 97 - 133
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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  • Exploitation
  • Katja Bruisch, Trinity College Dublin
  • Book: Burning Swamps
  • Online publication: 06 September 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009603096.007
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  • Exploitation
  • Katja Bruisch, Trinity College Dublin
  • Book: Burning Swamps
  • Online publication: 06 September 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009603096.007
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  • Exploitation
  • Katja Bruisch, Trinity College Dublin
  • Book: Burning Swamps
  • Online publication: 06 September 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009603096.007
Available formats
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