Antarctica as Cultural Critique [electronic resource] : The Gendered Politics of Scientific Exploration and Climate Change /
Glasberg, E.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: On Ice; 1 Antarctic Convergence: The Problem of Antarctic Mapping; 2 Refusing History after Ursula K. Le Guin's "Sur"; 3 "Who Goes There?": Science, Fiction, and US National Belonging in Antarctica; 4 On the Road with Chrysler: Virtual Capitalism and Empire without Territory; 5 Photography on Ice; 6 Sculpting in Ice: Climate Change and Affective Data Epilogue: Becoming Polar; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Sociology.
Environmental sociology.
Civilization—History.
Human geography.
Climate change.
Gender Studies.
Environmental Sociology.
Cultural History.
Human Geography.
Sociology, general.
Climate Change.