Reindeer at the End of the World – Bathsheba Demuth

In this narrated essay, ecological historian Bathsheba Demuth
travels across the easternmost edge of northern Russia—home to the
Native Chukchi people and their herds of reindeer. As she uncovers
the history of this landscape, she encounters the allure of the
apocalyptic arc—the promise of a new world—and the rise and ruin of
the Soviet ideology that sought to impose its utopian vision on the
Chukchi, their reindeer, and the natural cycles of the Russian
tundra. Through the Soviet project’s ambition to “tame” the tundra
and turn the living world into an economic resource, we are
confronted with uneasy parallels to capitalist society. Learn more
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