Katja Doose

katja.doose@unifr.ch
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5289

Chercheur·euse Senior
Département de géosciences

Recherche et publications

Publications

27 publications

Tektonik der Perestroika: Das Erdbeben und die Neuordnung Armeniens, 1985–1998
Katja Doose (Göttingen: Böhlau Verlag Köln, 2019), ISBN: 978-3-412-51327-6 | Livre

Architekturführer Taschkent
Philipp Meuser, Götz Burggraf, Klaus Hartung, Tulkinoj Kadirowa, Marcus Bensmann, Alischer Sabirow, Rawschan Nasarow, Johannes Dahl, Katja Doose, Romy Lehns (Berlin: DOM Publ., 2012), ISBN: 978-3-86922-165-6 | Livre

Governing through Aid in the Cold War. Humanitarian Interventions after the 1988 Earthquake in Armenia , dans Aid to Armenia. Humanitarianism and intervention from the 1890s to the present
(2020) | Chapitre de livre

Natural and anthropogenic climate change understanding in the Soviet Union, 1960-1980s , dans Climate Change Discourse in Russia: Past and Present ed. Marianna Poberezhskaya, Teresa Ashe, Routledge 2019
Katja Doose, Jonathan Oldfield (2019) | Chapitre de livre

Spitak: the Last Petrified Soviet Utopia , dans Yerevan: Architectural Guide
(2018) | Chapitre de livre

Hiding the Anthropocene Climate change research in the Soviet Union and Russia
Katja Doose (EHNE Digitital Encyclopedia of European History , 2021) | Chapitre de livre

Growing Deserts and Shrinking Glaciers: The Desiccation Debates and Climate Change in the Late Nineteenth Century
Katja Doose, Christine Bichsel, The Russian Review (2025) | Article

Introduction from the editors
Katja Doose, Marianna Poberezhskaya, Benjamin Beuerle, Climatic Change (2023) | Article

Modelling the future: climate change research in Russia during the late Cold War and beyond, 1970s–2000
Katja Doose, Climatic Change (2022) | Article

A global problem in a divided world: climate change research during the late Cold War, 1972–1991
Katja Doose, Cold War History (2021) | Article

Klimawandelforschung in der Sowjetunion und Russland
Religion und Gesellschaft in Ost und West (2021) | Article

Green Nationalism? The Transformation of Environmentalism in Soviet Armenia, 1969–1991
Katja Doose, Ab Imperio (2019) | Article

The Armenian Earthquake of 1988: A Perfect Stage for the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict
Katja Doose, Europe-Asia Studies (2018) | Article

On Arid Ground: Political Ecologies of Empire in Russian Central Asia. By Jennifer Keating. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. xiv, 252 pp. Bibliography. Glossary. Index. Photographs. Figures. Maps. £75.00, hard bound.
Katja Doose (2024) | Recension

Thane Gustafson, Klimat. Russia in the Age of Climate Change (2021)
Katja Doose (2023) | Recension

The Russian Cold: Histories of Ice, Frost, and Snow. Ed. Julia Herzberg, Andreas Renner, and Ingrid Schierle. New York: Berghahn Books, 2021. vii, 261 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Figures. Tables. Maps. $145.00, hard bound.
Katja Doose (2023) | Recension

Julia E. Ault: Saving Nature Under Socialism. Transnational Enviromentalism in East Germany, 1968–1990 Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Katja Doose (2023) | Recension

Managing Disasters during the Cold War
Katja Doose (2021) | Recension

Pey-Yi CHU, The Life of Permafrost. A History of Frozen Earth in Russian and Soviet Science
Katja Doose (2021) | Recension

Science and Empire in Eastern Europe: Imperial Russia and the Habsburg Monarchy in the 19th Century ed. by Jan Arend (review)
Katja Doose (2021) | Recension

Felix Frey: Arktischer Heizraum. Das Energiesystem Kola zwischen regionaler Autarkie und gesamtstaatlicher Verflechtung, 1928-1974
Katja Doose (2020) | Recension

Kirchhof, Astrid Mignon and J.R. McNeill: Nature and the Iron Curtain: Environmental Policy and Social Movements in Communist and Capitalist Countries 1945-1990, Pittsburgh, PA 2019.
Katja Doose (2020) | Recension

Les politiques climatiques, ces autres victimes de la guerre de Poutine en Ukraine
Katja Doose, Alexander Vorbrugg , The Conversation (2022) | Autre

Le débat climatique en Russie et l’accident de Norilsk : quels héritages ?
Katja Doose , Politika (2021) | Autre

Krieg im Kaukasus . Der Konflikt um Nagorno-Karabach und seine Hintergründe,
Katja Doose , Zeitgeschichte Online (2020) | Autre

Le scepticisme de la Russie vis-à-vis du changement climatique expliqué par son histoire scientifique
Katja Doose , The Conversation (2020) | Autre

Katja Doose interview with Info Durable
Katja Doose, Hélène Porret (2024) | Autre

Début	01.10.2024
Fin	30.09.2027
Financement	FNS Voir la fiche du projet
This research project investigates the influence of gender on scientific practices in Central Asia's Pamir Mountains from the 1870s to the 1970s. By examining the experiences of female and male scientists, we aim to understand how gender dynamics shaped scientific knowledge in remote environments. While there is a growing body of literature on the history of gendered science, it is very much focused on experiences in circumstances in Western, democratic countries. We will focus on gendered science in Central Asia. Our objectives are: (1) to analyse gender identity negotiation among female scientists, (2) to explore how male scientists constructed their gender identities in remote areas and (3) to investigate gender's intersection with ethnicity in shaping scientific practices. We employ archival research, visual analysis, and interviews with scientists from the Soviet era. Our research will broaden the understanding of gender's role in science, enhancing the historiography of Central Asia and the history of science.

Début	01.10.2024
Fin	30.09.2027
Financement	Autre
Our project examines the role of gender in the history of science in Central Asia. Situated at the peripheries of the Russian Empire and the USSR, the role of gender in Central Asian scientific communities was particularly complex and multi-layered. In SEQUAL, we investigate the case of field science, i.e., scientific disciplines and research methods that involve the collection and study of data directly in natural environments, rather than in controlled laboratory settings, such as glaciology, meteorology, geology, and geography. We argue that the analysis of field science is of particular relevance to our aim of understanding gender dynamics in scientific communities in Central Asia, as historically field sciences have been and remain dominated by men and framed through masculine discourse and practice. The remoteness and inaccessibility of the mountain areas as the field where the Central Asian scientists worked framed field sciences as a challenging endeavour requiring skills and abilities coded as masculine. This coding of field sciences as masculine provides the rationale for this project via two entry points. First, despite this clear coding, male identities of scientists in Central Asia are rarely made visible and examined as gendered in a way the gendered identities of Western scientists have been interrogated by existing scholarship. SEQUAL argues that the particular situation of male scientists in Central Asia as either the subjects of the Russian Empire or citizens of the Soviet Union added important dimensions to their gendered experience of science, which was shaped by the dominant ideological imperatives. Second, we will recover the role of female scientists in a nuanced way. While Central Asia is often seen as a place where gendered dynamics were particularly conservative, our project challenges this narrative and demonstrates that women, mostly of Slavic origin, frequently participated in carrying out work in, and making significant impact on the field sciences. For women, this meant to embrace the traditional discourse of femininity while taking advantage of the state’s ideological commitment to gender equality. Our project brings the two gendered dimensions together as it explores, in a pioneering way, how these separate scientific identities shaped each other through a complex interplay of relationships in the field, where notions of femininity and masculinity constantly shifted, leading to the gendered subjectivity of knowledge.

Début	01.10.2023
Fin	28.02.2025
Financement	Autre
Planning and conducting a series of workshops that examine the history of the Fedchenko Glacier, one of the world’s longest nonpolar glaciers located near Pamir, Tajikistan. (12 months) The purpose of this application is to pilot an interdisciplinary project on the natural and cultural history of the Fedchenko Glacier (Pamir, Tajikistan), one of the world’s longest glaciers outside the polar regions. Conceived as a contribution to both the environmental humanities and the emerging field of the “ice humanities,” it consists of two goals: 1) to produce a transdisciplinary eco-biography of a uniquely significant glacier that will advance our knowledge of how glaciers came to be understood and offer a cultural perspective on the role of glaciology in climate change studies--subjects hitherto neglected by humanists and humanistic social scientists, and 2) to develop an innovative transdisciplinary approach to studying glaciers. At a time when glaciers are fast disappearing, we return by way of the Fedchenko to the moment of their appearance in both the scientific and cultural imagination.

Début	01.03.2021
Fin	31.08.2026
Financement	FNS Voir la fiche du projet
This project researches the history of Soviet glaciology in the Pamir and Tian Shan mountain systems. Pamir and Tian Shan are part of the Third Pole, the Earth’s third-largest ice store next to the Arctic and Antarctic regions and Alaska. The Third Pole experiences a general trend of deglaciation. There is a lack of systematic glaciological ground measurements of the Third Pole. In order to estimate changes in ice cover, and their social and environmental consequences, scientists upscale the only available measurement data to regional and global levels. Yet little is known about why and how this data is available for upscaling today. This is problematic, as the upscaling of historical data has methodological, political and ethical implications. This project examines the social and material practices, geopolitics and epistemology of Soviet glaciology in order to shed light on the history of glaciological measurements in the Pamir and Tian Shan. In particular, it examines Soviet “timescapes of ice”, i.e. the temporal concepts and practices of Soviet glacier science. The project is guided by four objectives. First, the project aims to further the history of physical geography as a science through a study of Soviet glaciology. Second, it aims to advance the environmental history of the Cold War period through a study of Soviet glacier science in Central Asia from the 1950s to the 1980s. Third, it aims to strengthen the connections between environmental history and the history of sciences through conceptual and methodological innovation. Fourth, it aims to advance the interdisciplinary dialogue between the social and natural sciences of climate change through the historical contextualisation of Soviet glacier measurement data. The main research question interrogates how Soviet glacier science in Central Asia during the 1950s to the 1980s produced timescapes of ice. The four concepts of timescapes, disciplinary space, geopolitics, and strata are mobilised to answer this research question. The project adopts case study research as an approach. Case studies will be carried out on the history of glacier science on Abramov (Kyrgyzstan) and Tuyuk-Su glaciers (Kazakhstan). The methodology of the project entails library and archival research. Data collection will involve a total of 26 months of fieldwork in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and the Russian Federation. This project is intended to contribute to the history of physical geography as a science, further the environmental history of the Cold War period, strengthen the connections between environmental history and the history of sciences, and advance the interdisciplinary dialogue between the social and natural sciences of climate change