Katja Doose
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Biography
Katja Doose is an environmental historian and a historian of science for Russia and the Soviet Union. Since she finished her PhD at the University of Tübingen in 2018, that explored the 1988 Armenian earthquake and its socio-political implications, she has researched and taught at the University of Birmingham, the Advanced School of Social Sciences in Paris (EHESS) and the Centre for International Environmental Studies of the Graduate Institute (IHEID) in Geneva. Her research focuses on the history of Russian and Soviet climate science and the experiences of human-nature interactions from the late 19th to the 20th century. Since March 2021 she is a post-doctoral researcher in the SNF funded project "The History of Soviet glaciology in Central Asia" headed by Christine Bichsel.
Research and publications
- Publications
Peer-reviewed Articles
2021
- Doose, K. 2021. “A global Problem in a Divided World – Climate Change Research during the late Cold War, 1972-1991”. Cold War History
2019
- Doose, K. 2019. “Green Nationalism? The ecological transition of Soviet Armenia, 1969-1991‘, Ab imperio
2018
- Doose, K. 2018. “The Armenian Earthquake of 1988: A perfect stage for the Karabakh conflict’, Europe Asia Studies
Books and Book chapters
2020
- Doose, K. 2020. Governing through Aid in the Cold War. Humanitarian Interventions after the 1988 Earthquake in Armenia. In Aid to Armenia. Humanitarianism and intervention from the 1890s to the present, edited by J. Laycock and F. Piana. Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp. 131-146.
2019
- Doose, K. 2019. Tektonik der Perestroika. Das Erdbeben und die Neuordnung Armeniens, 1985-1998. Böhlau-Verlag.
2018
- Doose, K., Oldfield, J. 2018. Natural and anthropogenic climate change understanding in the Soviet Union 1960s-1980s. In Climate Change Discourse in Russia. Past and Present, edited by M. Poberezhskaya and T. Ashe. Routledge, London, pp. 17-31.
2017
- Doose, K. 2017. Spitak – the last petrified Soviet utopia. In Yerevan. An Architecture guide, edited by T. Harutunyan, DOM Publishing house, Berlin, pp. 268-289.
Book Reviews
2021
- Doose, K. 2021. “Nature and the Iron Curtain: Environmental Policy and Social Movements in Communist and Capitalist Countries 1945-1990”. In Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas
2020
- Doose, K. 2020. “Arktischer Heizraum. Das Energiesystem Kola zwischen regionaler Autarkie und gesamtstaatlicher Verflechtung 1928-1974”. In Schweizer Zeitschrift für Geschichte 70
Reports
2015
- Doose, K. 2015. “Contemporary environmental history of the Soviet Union and the successor states, 1970-2000. Ecological globalization and regional dynamics“, 18.03.2015, Paris, Conference Report. In: H-Soz-u-Kult
2013
- Doose, K. 2013. “Catastrophes in Eastern Europe from the 18th Century until today“, 10.04.2013, Tübingen, conference report. In: H-Soz-u-Kult
Blogs and Commentaries
2021
- Doose, K. 2021. “Klimawandelforschung in der Sowjetunion und Russland”. Religion und Gesellschaft in Ost und West
2020
- Doose, K. 2020. Umweltpolitik Russlands. 2020.09.01. dekoder
- Doose, K. 2020. Le scepticisme de la Russie vis-à-vis du changement climatique expliqué par son histoire scientifique. 2020.08.18. The Conversation
- Doose, K. 2020. Krieg im Kaukasus. Der Konflikt um Nagorno-Karabakh und seine Hintergründe. 2020.11.06. Zeitgeschichte Online
- Doose, K. 2020. Umweltpolitik in Russland – Vergangenheit und Gegenwart. 2020.10.16. Länder Analysen Russland