The planting of “colonial” science in Russian soil

2021 ◽  
pp. 184-196
Author(s):  
Anna Kuxhausen
Keyword(s):  
Russian Soil ◽  
Colonial Science

Feminist History of Colonial Science

Hypatia ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 233-254
Author(s):  
Londa Schiebinger
Keyword(s):  
Feminist History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Colonial Science

scholarly journals Improving the efficiency of using Russian soil resources

2021 ◽  
Vol 650 (1) ◽  
pp. 012069
Author(s):  
A F Razin ◽  
R A Meshcheryakova ◽  
O A Razin ◽  
T N Surikhina ◽  
G A Telegina
Keyword(s):  
Soil Resources ◽  
Russian Soil

Ecological niches of major soil types in Russia: Geographical aspects of the new Russian soil classification system

2009 ◽  
Vol 42 (9) ◽  
pp. 967-975 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. D. Tonkonogov ◽  
I. I. Lebedeva ◽  
M. I. Gerasimova ◽  
S. F. Khokhlov
Keyword(s):  
Classification System ◽  
Soil Classification ◽  
Soil Types ◽  
Ecological Niches ◽  
Russian Soil

scholarly journals Plant Capitalism and Company Science: The Indian Career of Nathaniel Wallich

2008 ◽  
Vol 42 (5) ◽  
pp. 899-928 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAVID ARNOLD
Keyword(s):  
Forest Conservation ◽  
East India Company ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Botanic Garden ◽  
Professional Advancement ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Plant Life ◽  
International Reputation ◽  
Indigenous Plant ◽  
Colonial Science

AbstractThe career of the Danish-born botanist Nathaniel Wallich, superintendent of the Calcutta Botanic Garden from 1815 to 1846, illustrates the complex nature of botanical science under the East India Company and shows how the plant life of South Asia was used as a capital resource both in the service of the Company's economic interests and for Wallich's own professional advancement and international reputation. Rather than seeing him as a pioneer of modern forest conservation or an innovative botanist, Wallich's attachment to the ideology of ‘improvement’ and the Company's material needs better explain his longevity as superintendent of the Calcutta garden. Although aspects of Wallich's career and botanical works show the importance of circulation between Europe and India, more significant was the hierarchy of knowledge in which indigenous plant lore and illustrative skill were subordinated to Western science and in which colonial science frequently lagged behind that of the metropolis.

‘Leaving a record of their coming’

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 279-296
Author(s):  
Bridgitte Barclay
Keyword(s):  
Atomic Age ◽  
Positive Material ◽  
Past Injustices ◽  
Colonial Science

Creature from the Black Lagoon (Arnold US 1954), perhaps the quintessential and most enduring atomic-age creature feature, is a rich text for ecocritical analysis. Not only does the film heavily emphasise extinction and evolution in its narration and plot line, but the film is full of tensions that both calcify problematic Anthropocenic narratives and erode them. The film offers us a way of critiquing Anthropocenic histories and ongoing narratives without erasing racial and colonial injustices. It also offers us a way to imagine other stories - other ways of writing on our world - that engage material entanglements, disorient colonial and anthropocentric perspectives and create empathy. Recognising the film’s rocky Anthropocenic and extinction narratives enables a more fluid approach. Reading through water, emphasising evolutionary entanglements, brings into high relief past injustices against humans and nonhumans, and it engages a palimpsest effect, where an awareness of our muddled materiality helps us write over hierarchical pasts. Framing the film ecocritically by reading extinction and evolution emphasises the tensions of Anthropocenic violence (through colonial science and Anthropocenic erasures) and of positive material entanglements (through empathy and disorientation).

scholarly journals Peat soils of boreal regressive bogs in West Siberia: Problems of biological diagnostics and systematics

2016 ◽  
pp. 61-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. A. Shishkonakova ◽  
N. A. Avetov ◽  
T. Yu. Tolpysheva
Keyword(s):  
Soil Classification ◽  
West Siberia ◽  
Botanical Composition ◽  
Peat Soils ◽  
Surface Horizon ◽  
The North ◽  
Sphagnum Bogs ◽  
Russian Soil ◽  
Peat Surface ◽  
The Difference

In this paper we consider plant (geobotanical) indicators of soils, occurring in regressive bogs in the north taiga subzone of West Siberia. The specificity of regressive bogs is the difference between current vegetation and botanical composition of the peat surface horizon, which complicates their biological diagnostics. The data on peat botanical composition, degree of decomposition and thickness are presented. Destructive oligotrophic peat soils, the allocation of which is provided in the actual Russian soil classification at the level of subtype, occur in palsa bogs under shrub-lichen vegetation. Their indicators include lichens: Cladonia stellaris, C. rangiferina, C. stygia, C. arbuscula, C. mitis, Alectoria ochroleuca, Сetraria islandica, C. laevigata, Flavocetraria cucullata, F. nivalis, Govardia nigricans. A new subtype - peat oligotrophic regressive soils - which occurs in non-freezing bog is suggested. The indicators of this soil subtype in pine-shrub-sphagnum bogs are lichens Cladonia cenotea, C. chlorophaea, C. coniocraea, C. cornuta, C. crispata, C. deformis, C. gracilis, C. fimbriata, C. mitis, C. ochrochlora, C. pleurota, C. polydactyla, C. pyxidata, C. rangiferina, C. stellaris, C. subulata, C. sulphurina and liverwort Mylia anomala . The indicators of regressive soils in bog hollows are mainly liverwort Cladopodiella fluitans , mosses Warnstorfia fluitans , W. exannulata , and lichen Cetrariella delisei .

scholarly journals ON STANDARDIZATION OF LABORATORY SOIL TESTING IN OFFSHORE GEOTECHNICAL SURVEY

Gruntovedenie ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (16) ◽  
pp. 16-52
Author(s):  
E.A. Voznesensky ◽  
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A.S. Loktev ◽  
M.S. Nikitin ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Offshore Structures ◽  
Soil Testing ◽  
National Standard ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Code Of Practice ◽  
Complete Section ◽  
Testing Practice ◽  
Russian Soil

Issues of laboratory soil studies standardization in offshore geotechnical survey are discussed in connection with the end of expertise of two new regulative documents – new edition of the Code of practice and Russian national standard developed on the basis of international ISO standard. Since these documents of different level belong also to different categories (geotechnical survey and oil and gas industry), the authors analyze their interrelation and consistency, from one hand, and the preparedness of Russian soil testing practice to implementation of the new standard which results from harmonization with international ones, from the other. Complete section of the standard draft related to soil laboratory testing is presented, preceded by commentary on some important issues regarding the implementation of its specific methodic statements. It is concluded that the new national GOST draft «Petroleum and natural gas industries. Specific requirements for offshore structures. Marine soil investigations» developed on ISO basis will be a useful document supported in general by Russian normative base but expanding a possible range of voluntary methods into well time-tested foreign approaches. This documents can be considered to be a toolkit annex to the Code of practice describing testing approaches beyond the scope of typical tasks

scholarly journals Konstantin Stepanovich Veselovskii. To the 200th anniversary of his birth

2019 ◽  
pp. 118-127
Author(s):  
O. V. Chernitsova
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Graphical Representation ◽  
European Russia ◽  
Soil Map ◽  
Geographical Patterns ◽  
Russian Soil ◽  
History Of ◽  
Meteorological Observations ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Statistical Atlas

The paper considers the contribution of K.S. Veselovskii (20.05.1819–03.11.1901), the Russian statistician of the 19th century, to the development of geographical science. Compiled under his editorship and with his direct participation, the Economic-Statistical Atlas of the European Russia, the first Russian economic atlas, summarized key information on agriculture as the basis for the Russian economy of the mid-19th century. The method of graphical representation of statistical data on the maps of the Atlas was innovative and contributed to the development of world cartography. The history of compiling the earliest Russian soil map is discussed in detail. The map depicted the geographical patterns of soil distribution in European Russia and their relation to climate. The generalized map was included in the Economic-Statistical Atlas and it became the first soil map of the country in the world. The study “On the Climate of Russia,” in which K.S. Veselovskii collected and critically processed all available observations of air temperature, winds and precipitation played a significant role in the development of geographical science. The role of K.S. Veselovskii in the organization of meteorological observations in Russia is also shown.

Colonial science and technology

2013 ◽  
pp. 438-461
Author(s):  
John Gascoigne ◽  
Sara Maroske
Keyword(s):  
Science And Technology ◽  
Colonial Science
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