Glasberg Antarctica as Cultural Critique

The Gendered Politics of Scientific Exploration and Climate Change
2012
ISBN: 978-1-137-01443-6
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 174 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture

Arguing that Antarctica is the most mediated place on earth and thus an ideal location for testing the limits of bio-political management of population and place, this book remaps national and postcolonial methods and offers a new look on a 'forgotten' continent now the focus of ecological concern.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Glasberg, E.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Antarctic Convergence' and the End of the Grid Gender and the Absent Native of Antarctic History 'Sculpting in Ice': Affective Data and the Market Flow Roads To Pole: Territorialization Without Territory and Post Ecological Architecture Blanking the Landscape and Disaster Capitalism The 100th Anniversary of Antarctica's Discovery: Time to Celebrate?

Über Autor(innen)

ELENA GLASBERG is Lecturer in the Writing Program at Princeton University, USA.