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

1st Edition

Anthropocene Antarctica Perspectives from the Humanities, Law and Social Sciences

Edited By Elizabeth Leane, Jeffrey McGee Copyright 2020
212 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

210 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

210 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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. 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,... Read more

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



 

Biography





    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.

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