Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-1-2020
Publication Title
Sibirica
Abstract
The article describes the life and work of Vladimir Klavdievich Arsen'ev in the context of the development of settler colonial project in the Far East. The article argues that Arsen'ev, a military officer and a self-taught geographer and ethnographer, shared in a political ecology, which combined “defense” of native peoples and the nature of the Russian Far East with racialized views of Chinese and Korean immigrants. This political ecology, in particular, led Arsen'ev to take part in military operations designed to cleanse remote parts of the Ussuri region of the Chinese and to develop administrative proposals on the governance of native peoples, which foreshadowed Soviet projects.
Volume
19
Issue
3
First Page
15
Last Page
36
DOI
doi.org/10.3167/sib.2020.190303
ISSN
13617362
Creative Commons License
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Rights
© The Author(s) 2020
Recommended Citation
Glebov, Sergey, "The Political Ecology of Vladimir Arsen'ev" (2020). History: Faculty Publications, Smith College, Northampton, MA.
https://scholarworks.smith.edu/hst_facpubs/15
Comments
Archived as published. Open access article.