Anthropocene Antarctica offers new ways of thinking about the ‘Continent for Science and Peace’ in a time of planetary environmental change. In the Anthropocene, Antarctica has become central to the Earth’s future. Ice cores taken from its interior reveal the deep environmental history of the planet and warming ocean currents are ominously destabilising the glaciers around its edges, presaging sea-level rise in decades and centuries to come. At the same time, proliferating research stations and tourist numbers challenge stereotypes of the continent as the ‘last wilderness.’ The Anthropocene brings Antarctica nearer in thought, entangled with our everyday actions. If the Anthropocene signals the end of the idea of Nature as separate from humans, then the Antarctic, long considered the material embodiment of this idea, faces a radical reframing.Understanding the southern polar region in the twenty-first century requires contributions across the disciplinary spectrum. This collection paves the way for researchers in the Environmental Humanities, Law and Social Sciences to engage critically with the Antarctic, fostering a community of scholars who can act with natural scientists to address the globally significant environmental issues that face this vitally important part of the planet.
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Anthropocene Antarctica offers new ways of thinking about the ‘Continent for Science and Peace’ in a time of planetary environmental change.
AcknowledgementsList of ContributorsForeword Sanjay Chaturvedi1 Anthropocene Antarctica: Approaches, issues and debatesELIZABETH LEANE AND JEFFREY MCGEEPART 1: Governance and geopolitics 2 Governing Antarctica in the AnthropoceneTIM STEPHENS3 Subglacial nationalismsALAN D. HEMMINGS4 Frozen Eden lost? Exploring discourses of geoengineering AntarcticaJEFFREY MCGEE5 The Anthropocene melt: Antarctica’s geologic politicsJUAN FRANCISCO SALAZARPART 2: Cultural texts and representations6 Ice and the ecothriller: Popular representations of Antarctica in the Anthropocene ELIZABETH LEANE7 Listening ‘at the sea ice edge’: Compositions based on soundscape recordings made in Antarctica CAROLYN PHILPOTT8 Save the penguins: Antarctic advertising and the PR of protectionHANNE NIELSENPART 3: Inhabitations and place9 Indigenising the heroic era of Antarctic explorationBEN MADDISON10 Populating Antarctica: Chilean families in the frozen continentNELSON LLANOS11 Placing the past: The McMurdo Dry Valleys and the problem of geographical specificity in Antarctic history ADRIAN HOWKINSPART 4: Conclusion 12 Antarctica looking forward: Four themesJEFFREY MCGEE AND ELIZABETH LEANEIndex
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ISBN
9781138367593
Publisert
2019-09-30
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Routledge
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444 gr
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234 mm
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156 mm
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U, 05
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Engelsk
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210

Biographical note

Elizabeth Leane is Professor of English at the School of Humanities/Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania.

Jeffrey McGee is Senior Lecturer in Climate Change, Marine and Antarctic Law at the Faculty of Law/Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania.