Jeffrey McGee: Anthropocene Antarctica

Cover: 9781032089157 | Anthropocene Antarctica | Elizabeth Leane (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | 2021

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Beschreibung

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, presaging sea-level rise in decades and centuries to come. At the same time, proliferating research stations and tourist numbers challenge stereotypes of the continent as the 'last wilderness.' The Anthropocene brings Antarctica nearer in thought, entangled with our everyday actions. If the Anthropocene signals the end of the idea of Nature as separate from humans, then the Antarctic, long considered the material embodiment of this idea, faces a radical reframing.

Understanding the southern polar region in the twenty-first century requires contributions across the disciplinary spectrum. This collection paves the way for researchers in the Environmental Humanities, Law and Social Sciences to engage critically with the Antarctic, fostering a community of scholars who can act with natural scientists to address the globally significant environmental issues that face this vitally important part of the planet.

Über den Autor

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2021
Genre:	Umwelt
Produktart:	Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik:	Ökologie
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9781032089157
ISBN-10:	1032089156
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Redaktion:	McGee, Jeffrey
Hersteller:	Routledge
Maße:	234 x 156 x 12 mm
Von/Mit:	Jeffrey McGee
Erscheinungsdatum:	30.06.2021
Gewicht:	0,33 kg

Artikel-ID: 128438799