Introduction: What colonialism tells us about Antarctica, and what Antarctica tells us about colonialism – Alejandra Mancilla and Peder Roberts 1 Antarctic minerals for the Soviet Bloc? Imagining the South Pole frontier of extractive socialism – Roman Khandozhko2 Imperial rockets, colonial geographies: Algeria, Antarctica, Guiana, and the French Space Program, 1959–74 – Katherine Mariko Sinclair3 Narratives of colonialism in Antarctica through the lens of HSMs – Katarzyna Jarosz 4 Argentina and Chile’s Antarctic colonialism? A postcolonial critique to Eurocentric analysis – Cardone, Ignacio Javier5 South American claims in Antarctica: colonial, malgré tout – Alejandra Mancilla6 Colonialism without religion? Faith and politics in the history of Antarctica – Adrian Howkins7 The colonial and extracolonial bordering of Antarctica – Germana Nicklin8 Nineteenth century connections between capitalism and colonialism in Antarctica: the case of sealing in the South Shetlands – María Jimena Cruz, Melisa A. Salerno and Andrés Zarankin 9 Animals, colonialism, and Antarctica – Peder Roberts and Kati Lindström10 Settler colonial mind-sets at Halley research station, 1955 – present – Alice Oates 11 Domination as a legacy of the colonial origins and structure of the Antarctic Treaty System – Yelena Yermakova12 Techno-autochthony: for an ethnography of scientific colonisation in Antarctica – Luís Guilherme Resende de AssisPostscript - Antarctica & Colonialism: A Historian’s Reflections – Rebecca Herman

Is Antarctica the only continent in the world where colonialism never left a footprint? The question is deceptively complex, because despite lacking an indigenous population, Antarctica has not existed in isolation from the economic and political structures of the modern world. Being labelled a continent for science and peace has never prevented it from being a space where the rivalries of the Cold War and the inequalities between the developed and the developing world play out.Colonialism and Antarctica explores how the concept of colonialism can help us to understand the past and present of Antarctica, and how in turn Antarctica may illuminate and rethink our understanding of colonialism. Despite lacking an indigenous population, the continent has been shaped by many of the same political and economic forces that have defined the rest of the world – notwithstanding its unique governance arrangement, the Antarctic Treaty System.The book asks what analytic value the concept of colonialism can hold to explain the past and present of Antarctica. It also explores how thinking about colonialism in Antarctica helps reveal the limits to the analytic value of colonialism as a concept more generally. Aiming both to define a particular field of inquiry and stimulate further debate, this multidisciplinary volume includes contributions from history, philosophy, archaeology, political geography, and political science. It foregrounds perspectives from outside the Anglophone world and invites reflection on how knowing Antarctica is connected to power and justice.