Anthropocene Antarctica

Perspectives from the Humanities, Law and Social Sciences
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-032-08915-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 212 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 330 g

Reihe: Routledge Environmental Humanities

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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Leane, Elizabeth

McGee, Jeffrey

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.