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“Why are Kazakhstan and Montana the same place?” asks one chapter of Kate Brown’s surprising and unusual journey into the histories of places on the margins, overlooked or erased. It turns out that a ruined mining town in Kazakhstan and Butte, Montana—America’s largest environmental Superfund site—have much more in common than one would think thanks to similarities in climate, hucksterism, and the perseverance of their few hardy inhabitants. Taking readers to these and other unlikely locales, Dispatches from Dystopia delves into the very human and sometimes very fraught ways we come to understand a particular place, its people, and its history. In Dispatches from Dystopia, Brown wanders the Chernobyl Zone of Alienation, first on the Internet and then in person, to figure out which version—the real or the virtual—is the actual forgery. She also takes us to the basement of a hotel in Seattle to examine the personal possessions left in storage by Japanese-Americans on their way to internment camps in 1942. In Uman, Ukraine, we hide with Brown in a tree in order to witness the annual male-only Rosh Hashanah celebration of Hasidic Jews. In the Russian southern Urals, she speaks with the citizens of the small city of Kyshtym, where invisible radioactive pollutants have mysteriously blighted lives. Finally, Brown returns home to Elgin, Illinois, in the midwestern industrial rust belt to investigate the rise of “rustalgia” and the ways her formative experiences have inspired her obsession with modernist wastelands. Dispatches from Dystopia powerfully and movingly narrates the histories of locales that have been silenced, broken, or contaminated. In telling these previously unknown stories, Brown examines the making and unmaking of place, and the lives of the people who remain in the fragile landscapes that are left behind.
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Hardcover: 216 pages
Publisher: University of Chicago Press; 1 edition (May 1, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780226242798
ISBN-13: 978-0226242798
ASIN: 022624279X
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6 x 1 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
5.0 out of 5 stars
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This book, published at University of Chicago, (2015), in what to me is a series of three works with largely the same set of concerns that are wonderfully explored by Kate Brown. The other two, preceding, this one are "Plutopia," Oxford, (2013), and "A Biography of No Place," Harvard,(2003). Each of her books addresses her concerns in magically different and engaging ways. Readers will immediately notice that the narratives alternate between standard third person and, the most important one, first person. The writer is involved in the events themselves and not just as an observer or a scribe. Kate Brown's humanity is there on every page making it clear that her concerns are those also of her readers and, obviously, those she in engaged with everyday in her travels and research. The central topic, though is what a wasteland we have made of vast stretches of the world because of our obsessions with nuclear weapons and nuclear power. Her concern is not just Chernobyl, Fukushima, Three-Mile Island, but mainly two plutonium factories and what they have done to the political structures of our lives and, centrally, the devastation to our habitats and ourselves. The silence of radioactive isotopes have made it possible for us to remain unconscious of the effects all of the waste products have had on our health, the huge number of deaths that are not grouped in the obituary columns of local newspapers, but appear in families over many generations, and since these products do not just disappear, we, our children, our neighbors all, for many generations suffer and die from radiation poisoning. Our animals, pets and livestock are poisoned. All growing things are poisoned, and since radiation cannot be seen, its effects are difficult to trace to the damage they cause in our bodies and in all living things. Governments organized to produce nuclear weapons and then nuclear power urging its continuing production saying, often, that it is non-polluting, does not cause climate warming, and is both more effective and less costly than burning coal or making wind farms or other sustainable power alternatives. But? Nothing is free. The costs, though silent and long lived, are easily ignored until they pile up and no one wants the refuse in their back yards. People living by the production facilities deny the dangers because of the thousands of jobs created by the industry.All of this, in marvelously knitted and dramatic narrative gets revealed at just the right places in these three works. I have now been through all three of them and cannot wait until we get to see the revelations from her current sabbatical leave. I have not been soenthusiastic for an historians work since I was, long ago, an undergraduate learning about the Trans-Mississippi West by a teacher who was as involved in the lives and communities of Native Americans and their histories. Kate Brown has entered my pantheon of writers and teachers along with Dr. William E. Unrau. You may find his work here, too.
Rigorous and disciplined, this is an essential book with necessary lessons and perspectives not just for historians but anthropologists, doctors, even lawyers, and anyone serious about people and the world. In each essay, Brown places her person at some boundary--not just geographical (though that's always present and apparent), but at the limit of some structured, inadequate, strained understanding, whether it be a political outline of ethnicity, a scientific diagnosis of a disease, a historical depiction of an event--and Janus-like looks both into the accepted wisdom and out into the shadowy mixed realm of potential truths. Always illuminating, always engaging, always just a little too short, always honoring the places and especially the people she writes about, these essays exemplify scholarly intellect and the role academic inquiry plays in the world..
Dr. Brown forces us to confront the idea of a modernist wasteland from every angle. What it means for us, where we think it may refer to, and, most importantly, if we've been living in one all along. The juxtaposition of Soviet and post-Soviet settings with American counterparts is moving. More importantly, her prose and style make accessible an otherwise difficult matter. Highly recommended.
I love Kate Brown. This book isn't as long as Plutopia, it's not as overwhelming.
The "spatial turn" made both scholarly and personal - done by a historian with a thorough handle on the historiography (to which she is importantly contributing btw) and a truly deft pen.
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