Environment and Society in Soviet Estonia, 19601990 - An Intimate Cultural History

This Element investigates how natural environments and social ideas and circumstances were intertwined in fundamental ways. Various aspects of Estonian environmental thought and practices are analyzed as tied to local, intimate environments, while being at the same time connected to the global circulation of ideas.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. 1965. Reverence for Life: bridging local and global environmental perspectives; 3. 1976. The forbidden sea and colonial violence; 4. 1969, 1869, 1988. The sound of the choir is the sound of the earth: the song, the land, the nation, and decolonization; 5. 1978. Urbanitis and limits to growth; 6. Conclusion. Thirty years later: bound to nature in a digital society.

Product details

• Authors: Epp (Tallinn University) Annus, Annus Epp
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 31.05.2025
• EAN: 9781009429351
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0942935-1
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements in Soviet and Post-Soviet History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; European History, Political Ideologies, Estonia, HISTORY / Europe / General, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, Green politics / ecopolitics / environmentalism, Decolonisation and postcolonial studies