Recent publications
Book
Oldfield, J 2021, The Soviet Union and Global Environmental Change: Modifying the Biosphere and Conceptualizing Society-Nature Interaction. Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe, 1st edn, Routledge, London. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003158615
Oldfield, J & Shaw, D 2015, The development of Russian environmental thought: scientific and geographical perspectives on the natural environment. Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series, 1st edn, Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315670171
Article
Oldfield, J 2018, 'Imagining climates past, present and future: Soviet contributions to the science of anthropogenic climate change, 1953-1991', Journal of Historical Geography, vol. 60, pp. 41-51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2017.12.004
Oldfield, JD 2016, 'Mikhail Budyko's (1920-2001) contributions to Global Climate Science: from heat balances to climate change and global ecology', Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, vol. 7, no. 5, pp. 682–692. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.412
Oldfield, JD & Shaw, DJB 2015, 'A Russian geographical tradition? The contested canon of Russian and Soviet geography, 1884–1953', Journal of Historical Geography, vol. 49, pp. 75-84. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2015.04.015
Oldfield, J & Shaw, D 2015, 'Conceptualizing and utilizing the natural environment: critical reflections from imperial and soviet Russia', Slavonic and East European Review, vol. 93, no. 1, pp. 1-15. https://doi.org/10.5699/slaveasteurorev2.93.1.0001
Shaw, DJB & Oldfield, J 2015, 'Soviet geographers and the Great Patriotic War, 1941–1945 : Lev Berg and Andrei Grigor'ev', Journal of Historical Geography, vol. 47, pp. 40-49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2014.06.002
Oldfield, J 2013, 'Climate modification and climate change debates among Soviet physical geographers, 1940s-1960s', Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, vol. 4, no. 6, pp. 513-524. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.242
Shaw, DJB & Oldfield, J 2013, 'V.I. Vernadskii and the development of biogeochemical understandings of the biosphere, c.1880s–1968', The British Journal for the History of Science, vol. 46, no. 02, pp. 287-310. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007087412000015
Kay, R & Oldfield, J 2011, 'Emotional engagements with the field: A view from area studies', Europe-Asia Studies, vol. 63, no. 7, pp. 1275-1293. https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2011.592283
Oldfield, J, Matless, D & Swain, A 2011, 'The making of a sub-discipline: State initiatives and the production of British geographical studies of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1945-71', Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, vol. 36, no. 4, pp. 574-589. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-5661.2011.00443.x
Pollard, J, Oldfield, J, Randalls, S & Thornes, J 2008, 'Firm finances, weather derivatives and geography', Geoforum, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 616-624. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2006.03.008
Matless, D, Oldfield, J & Swain, A 2008, 'Geographically touring the eastern bloc: British geography, travel cultures and the Cold War', Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 354-375. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-5661.2008.00303.x
Chapter
Oldfield, J 2021, Russia and Eurasia. in M Domosh, M Heffernan & C Withers (eds), The SAGE Handbook of Historical Geography. 1 edn, vol. 1, SAGE Publications, pp. 100-116. <https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/the-sage-handbook-of-historical-geography/book251311#description>
Oldfield, J & Doose, K 2018, Natural and anthropogenic climate change understanding in the Soviet Union, 1960s–1980s. in M Poberezhskaya & T Ashe (eds), Climate Change Discourse in Russia: Past and Present. Routledge.
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