Rethinking Geographical Explorations in Extreme Environments: From the Arctic to the Mountaintops

ISBN-13: 9780367559830 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 240 str.

Marco Armiero; Roberta Biasillo; Stefano Morosini

Opis

This volume examines global environmental margins, how they are conceived and how perceptions have changed. It is essential reading for students and scholars interested in environmental history, geography, colonial studies and the environmental humanities.

Spis treści

Introduction: A world that is losing its margins 1. Emotions and Mountaineering for Internationalist Purposes: The case of the Union Internationale des Associations d’Alpinisme (UIAA), 1939-1951 2. Power, politics and exploration in fascist Italy: The 1928 watershed 3. Roald Amundsen vs Umberto Nobile: The role of the newspapers in the age of nationalism and polar imperialism 4. Umberto Nobile between two totalitarianisms 5. Imperialist Italian geography currents in the work of Roberto Almagià and his ambiguous relationship with the fascist regime 6. Walter Wood and the Legacies of Science and Alpinism in the St Elias Mountains 7. Physiology and biomedicine on high-altitude expeditions (c.1880-1980) 8. Italian geographers, scientists, travellers and mountaineers in the Karakoram (1890-1954) 9. Commercialization and Mount Everest in the Twentieth Century Conclusions: Geographical exploration via the environmental humanities: Decolonising approaches to space