Anthropocene Antarctica (eBook, ePUB)

Perspectives from the Humanities, Law and Social Sciences
Redaktion: Leane, Elizabeth; McGee, Jeffrey

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429770746
• Artikelnr.: 57729599

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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