The Technocratic Antarctic is an ethnographic account of the scientists and policymakers
who work on Antarctica. In a place with no indigenous people, Antarctic scientists and …

Acts of scientific calculation have long been considered central to the formation of the
modern nation state, yet the transnational spaces of knowledge generation and political …

This paper analyses relationships that Antarctic glaciologists (including field scientists,
modellers, and those working with remote satellite data) have formed with the Antarctic …

In 1957, a writer called John Andrews stole my proverbial thunder. He published an article
called 'Antarctic geopolitics' in the journal, Australian Outlook, and it makes for intriguing …

Before the discovery of vitamins, beriberi and scurvy were feared diseases that plagued
ships during long sailing voyages. Although the origins of these diseases were still …

This paper explores 'awkward Antarctic nationalism'and builds on the critical scholarship
that explores the contours and contradictions of everyday, mundane, banal and even hot …

This chapter explores the idea of 'place'in Antarctica in contrast to dominant visions of a
uniform Antarctic space. This chapter historicizes and critiques the idea of Antarctica as a …

The Antarctic has come to be considered a place of climate change, both in parallel to
broader global understandings of anthropogenic climate change and in response to …

What do ongoing discussions about Antarctic spatial protection tools tell us about the
'health'or overall condition of the Antarctic Treaty system 60 years after its entry into force …

Antarctica is a continent for environmental discourse. For most of modern history, the idea of
Antarctica existed only in human imagination, a place that had to exist because it made …