Ilmastodiskurssi Venäjän arktisella alueella

• Published in: Idäntutkimus
• Main Author: Yagodin, Dmitry
• Other Authors: Venäjän ja Euraasian tutkimus (Aleksanteri-instituutti)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Finnish
• Published: Suomen Venäjän ja Itä-Euroopan tutkimuksen seura 2021
• Subjects: 6160 Muut humanistiset tieteet; Russian and Eurasian Studies; Arctic; Yamal Peninsula; Arktis*; Climate change; Russian North; Siberia
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10138/325925

This study uses the case of the 2016 anthrax outbreak on the Yamal peninsula in north-western Siberia to discuss whether and how the incident could challenge the dominant discourse in Russia that neglects the problem of climate change – a potential cause of the outbreak. The study draws on a small s...