RUSS 357. Petroleum Putinism & Plutonium. 1 Credit.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3
This course explores the role of nationalism, alongside ideas about energy and nature, in the Russian state’s current historical colonial relationships with neighboring countries, Central Asia and Indigenous communities of Siberia. Topics include Russian imperial/Soviet state extractivist economics, Russian/regional pipeline and petro politics, social resistance and climate change futures. Crosslisted as ENST 357 and POLS 357.