Marc ELIE

Centre for Russian, Caucasian and Central European Studies (CERCEC, Centre d’études des Mondes Russe, Caucasien et Centre-Européen), Paris, France

Email: marc.elie@cercec.cnrs.fr

Personal URL: https://www.cercec.fr/membre/marc-elie/

ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2438-2731

Scopus Author ID: 17345863000

Web of Science ResearcherID: T-4136-2019

Doctorate in History, Senior Researcher at French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS, Centre national de la recherche scientifique), CERCEC

Research interests:

environmental history, history of sciences, STS, history of the Soviet Union, history of soil sciences, history of international scientific exchanges, history of Soviet Kazakhstan, history of Soviet agriculture, history of the Soviet penitentiary system, history of Soviet repressions, history of natural disasters

Membership in scientific associations:

  • Réseau universitaire de chercheurs en histoire environnementale (RUCHE) – University network of researchers in environmental history

Membership in the editorial boards of other journals:

  • “Cahiers du monde russe” [Notebooks of the Russian world] (Paris, France), editorial board member

Publications in the subject area of the journal “Voprosy istorii estestvoznaniia i tekhniki” [“Studies in the History of Science and Technology”]:

  • German Agricultural Occupation of France and Ukraine, 1940-1944, Comparativ. Zeitschrift Für Globalgeschichte Und Vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung, 2019, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 86-117. (with Lyautey, M.)
  • Dessicated Steppes. Drought and Climate Change in the USSR, 1960s-1980s, in: Eurasian Environments. Nature and Ecology in Imperial Russia and Soviet History, edited by Nicholas B. Breyfogle. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018. Pp. 75-94. https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01969352
  • Managing the ‘White Death’ in Cold War Soviet Union. Snow Avalanches, Ice Science, and Winter Sport in Kazakhstan, 1960s-1980s, in: Ice and Snow in the Cold War. Histories of Extreme Climatic Environments, edited by Julia Herzberg, Christian Kehrt, and Franziska Torma. New York; Oxford: Berghahn, 2018. Pp.189-208.
  • Disasters: A Crash Test for Property, Global Environment, 2018, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 219-235. https://doi.org/10.3197/ge.2018.110202 (with Fabien Locher)
  • La Biosphère Dans l’écologie Globale: Viktor Kovda et l’héritage Scientifique de Vernadsky Lors Du «tournant Écologique» Des Années 1970 En URSS, in: Vernadsky, La France et l’Europe, edited by Maryse Dennes and Guennady Aksenov. Pessac: Maison des sciences de l’homme d’Aquitaine, 2017. Pp. 161-180. (in French)
  • Les steppes bouleversées, Etudes rurales, 2017, no. 200, pp. 80-105. (in French)
  • Verte, la steppe ?, Etudes rurales, 2017, no. 200, pp. 64-79. (with Carole Ferret) (in French)
  • Christophe Bonneuil et Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, L’Événement Anthropocène. La Terre, l’histoire et Nous, Le Mouvement Social, 2015. http://www.lemouvementsocial.net/comptes-rendus/christophe-bonneuil-et-jean-baptiste-fressoz-levenement-anthropocene-la-terre-lhistoire-et-nous/ (in French)
  • The Soviet Dust Bowl and the Canadian Erosion Experience in the New Lands of Kazakhstan, 1950s-1960s, Global Environment, 2015, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 259-292. https://doi.org/10.3197/ge.2015.080202
  • Filmer La Nature Déchaînée: La Circulation Des Images de Coulées de Boue Entre Film Scientifique, Documentaire et Film Catastrophe Au Kazakhstan, 1970-1980, Cahiers Du Monde Russe, 2016, vol. 56, no. 1, pp. 25-52. https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01224758 (in French)
  • Formulating the Global Environment: Soviet Soil Scientists and the International Desertification Discussion, 1968–91, The Slavonic and East European Review, 2015, vol. 93, no. 1, pp. 181-204. https://doi.org/10.5699/slaveasteurorev2.93.1.0181
  • Governing by Hazard: Controlling Mudslides and Promoting Tourism in the Mountains above Alma-Ata (Kazakhstan), 1966-1977, in: Governing Disasters: Beyond Risk Culture, edited by Sandrine Revet and Julien Langumier. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. 23-58. https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01158537
  • Zwischen Risikogesellschaft Und Katastrophenkulturen. Zur Einführung in Die Katastrophengeschichte Des Östlichen Europas, Jahrbücher Für Geschichte Osteuropas, 2014, vol. 62, no. 2, pp. 161-179. (with Klaus Gestwa) (in German)
  • “Au Centre d’un Double Malheur” Le Séisme Du 7 Décembre 1988 En Arménie et l’expulsion Des Sinistrés Azéris de Spitak, Revue d’études Comparatives Est-Ouest, 2013, vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 45-75. (in French)
  • Coping with the ‘Black Dragon’. Mudflow Hazard and the Controversy over the Medeo Dam in Kazakhstan, 1958-1966, Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 2013, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 313-342. DOI: 10.1353/KRI.2013.0028
  • From Social History to Environmental History. And Back?, RCC Perspectives, 2013, no. 5: Making Tracks. Human and Environmental Histories, pp. 101-104.
  • Gouverner Par Les Aléas: Maîtrise Des Coulées de Boue et Mise En Valeur Touristique Des Montagnes à Alma-Ata (Kazakhstan), 1966-1977, in: Le Gouvernement Des Catastrophes, edited by Julien Langumier and Sandrine Revet. Éditions Karthala, 2013. Pp. 33-72. (in French)
  • Late Soviet Responses to Disasters, 1989-1991: A New Approach to Crisis Management or the Acme of Soviet Technocratic Thinking?, The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, 2013, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 214-238. https://doi.org/10.1163/18763324-04002004
  • Les Fondements Énergétiques de La Démocratie, La Vie Des Idées, 2012. http://www.laviedesidees.fr/Les-fondements-energetiques-de-la.html?lang=fr (in French)

Participation in grants:

  • Agence nationale de la recherche (ANR)
  • Fédération Maison des sciences de l’homme (FMSH)
  • Megagrant (Russia)

Contact information:

2 cours des Humanités, Aubervilliers, 93300, France

+33648946181

Email: marc.elie@cercec.cnrs.fr