Reindeer at the End of the World – Bathsheba Demuth
Bathsheba Demuth observes the rise and ruin of the Soviet ideology
that sought to impose its utopian vision on the Native Chukchi
people, their herds of reindeer, and the natural cycles of the
Russian tundra.
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In this narrated essay from our archive, ecological historian
Bathsheba Demuth explores the allure of the apocalyptic arc—the
ending of an “old” world and the promise of a new, “perfect” one.
As she crosses the easternmost edge of northern Russia, Bathsheba
traces the rise and the ruin of the Soviet ideology that imposed
its utopian vision of a tamed and commodified tundra upon the
Native Chukchi people and their herds of reindeer. Finding uneasy
parallels between such aims and today’s capitalist ideals, she
considers survival against systems of power, and wonders how we
might re-imagine the apocalyptic arc as the world as we know it
ends. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit
megaphone.fm/adchoices
Bathsheba Demuth explores the allure of the apocalyptic arc—the
ending of an “old” world and the promise of a new, “perfect” one.
As she crosses the easternmost edge of northern Russia, Bathsheba
traces the rise and the ruin of the Soviet ideology that imposed
its utopian vision of a tamed and commodified tundra upon the
Native Chukchi people and their herds of reindeer. Finding uneasy
parallels between such aims and today’s capitalist ideals, she
considers survival against systems of power, and wonders how we
might re-imagine the apocalyptic arc as the world as we know it
ends. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit
megaphone.fm/adchoices
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