Reflections on Siberia's "Gloomy River".
Evenkiia
Hydroelectric power station
Indigenous peoples
Industrialism
River life
Siberia
Journal
Ambio
ISSN: 1654-7209
Titre abrégé: Ambio
Pays: Sweden
ID NLM: 0364220
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Jul 2023
Jul 2023
Historique:
received:
16
09
2022
accepted:
28
04
2023
revised:
05
03
2023
pmc-release:
01
07
2024
medline:
9
6
2023
pubmed:
25
5
2023
entrez:
25
5
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
In the 1980s the Soviet Academy of Sciences proposed to build a massive dam and hydroelectric station on the Lower Tunguska river in the Evenki Autonomous Okrug (now a municipal district of Krasnoyarsk Territory). This would have been the largest and most northerly hydroelectric station in the world. Plans for the project were abandoned with the collapse of the USSR. The plan was resuscitated twenty years later, only to be abandoned again. This essay explores themes of protest, anticipation, and deferral in the context of a highly marginalized Indigenous population. Moving between literary and media critique to social theory, we suggest that the effects of the dam proposals produce conditions for enduring feelings of indeterminacy.
Identifiants
pubmed: 37227664
doi: 10.1007/s13280-023-01880-x
pii: 10.1007/s13280-023-01880-x
pmc: PMC10247664
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
1221-1232Informations de copyright
© 2023. The Author(s) under exclusive licence to Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
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