Anthropocene Antarctica: Perspectives from the Humanities, Law and Social Sciences

ISBN-13: 9781032089157 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 212 str.

Elizabeth Leane; Jeffrey McGee

Opis

Anthropocene Antarctica　offers new ways of thinking about the ‘Continent for Science and Peace’ in a time of planetary environmental change.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

Foreword

Sanjay Chaturvedi

　

1 Anthropocene Antarctica: Approaches, issues and debates

ELIZABETH LEANE AND JEFFREY MCGEE

 

PART 1: Governance and geopolitics

 

2 Governing Antarctica in the Anthropocene

TIM STEPHENS

 

3 Subglacial nationalisms

ALAN D. HEMMINGS

 

4 Frozen Eden lost? Exploring discourses of geoengineering Antarctica

JEFFREY MCGEE

 

5 The Anthropocene melt: Antarctica’s geologic politics

JUAN FRANCISCO SALAZAR

 

PART 2: Cultural texts and representations

 

6 Ice and the ecothriller: Popular representations of Antarctica in the Anthropocene

ELIZABETH LEANE

 

7 Listening ‘at the sea ice edge’: Compositions based on soundscape recordings made in Antarctica

CAROLYN PHILPOTT

 

8 Save the penguins: Antarctic advertising and the PR of protection

HANNE NIELSEN

 

PART 3: Inhabitations and place

 

9 Indigenising the heroic era of Antarctic exploration

BEN MADDISON

 

10 Populating Antarctica: Chilean families in the frozen continent

NELSON LLANOS

 

11 Placing the past: The McMurdo Dry Valleys and the problem of geographical specificity in Antarctic history

ADRIAN HOWKINS

 

PART 4: Conclusion

12 Antarctica looking forward: Four themes

JEFFREY MCGEE AND ELIZABETH LEANE

Index

 

O autorze

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.