Katja Doose
Dr
Chargé·e de cours
Département d'histoire contemporaine
Chercheur·euse Senior
Département de géosciences
Recherche et publications
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Publications
26 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 | LivreArchitekturführer 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 -
Projets de recherche
Myths of equality: the gendered history of science in Central Asia (1870-1970)
Statut: En coursFedchenko: An Eco-Biography of a Glacier
Statut: En coursTimescapes of ice: Soviet glacier science in Central Asia, 1950s-1980s
Statut: En coursDébut 01.03.2021 Fin 28.02.2025 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