American Cows in Antarctica: Richard Byrd's polar dairy as symbolic settler colonialism

Leane, Elizabeth; Nielsen, Hanne

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“…Recent scholarship on Antarctic settler colonialism includes, for example, that by Howkins (2010) who, in distinction from the historiographical approach presented here, views South American expansionism as a relatively understudied example of settler colonialism. Leane and Nielsen (2017) have provided an account of the role played by dairy cows in facilitating Byrd's Second Antarctic Expedition in 1935; through this account they provide insights into the symbolic promotion of US colonial interests in Antarctica.…”

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Indian Rebellion of 1857

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is Nigeria's preeminent socialistfeminist novelist. Neo-colonialist Nigeria under "flag independence" has been a theater of conflict where women's rights have been suppressed as part of an imperialist ideological crusade. Okoye's oeuvre presents us with examples of how individual women, as well as radical collectives, can find agency even as exploitative structures tighten their grip on the country.

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“…Dogs and ponies enabled sledging expeditions, and others, including pigs, sheep, goats, cows, rabbits and cats, were brought as companions or as food (Headland 2011). Occasionally non-human species took on a performative function as an assertion of symbolic settler colonial presence, such as the reindeer taken by Norwegian whalers to the British-claimed subantarctic island of South Georgia, or the three cows brought by American explorer Richard Byrd to his base "Little America" on the Ross Ice Shelf in the 1930s (see Roberts and Jørgensen 2016, p. 65;Leane and Nielsen 2017).…”

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Performing Sovereignty over an Ice Continent

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Jabour

2020

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In early May 1841, Antarctica appeared on stage for the first time. In the far-flung British colonial town of Hobart in Van Diemen's Land (soon to become Tasmania), a melodrama entitled South Pole Expedition made its debut, to sell-out crowds and reasonable reviews (Anon., 1841a). Despite some reservations about the acting, the Hobart Town Advertiser's critic considered that the performance "surpassed … expectations"; the icescape set, at least, was "as cold-looking as could be wished" (Anon., 1841b). This inaugural attempt to stage Antarctica was distinguished by the presence in the audience of people who had actually been to the continent. The play was inspired by an expedition led by James Ross that had returned from a summer spent exploring the Antarctic to recuperate in Hobart, and some of the men came along to watch the theatrical entertainment. The production concluded with an allegorical tableau that placed the figures of Science, Fame and Britannia against the icescape, and a prediction that, sometime in the future, a southern empire might rise with Tasmania as its centre: "Then Tasmania that proud flag [the Union Jack] shall rear / And shine the Britain of this hemisphere" (quoted in Anon. 1841). The theatrical performance was, on the one hand, a way of bringing the remote and glamorous icescape into the space of Tasmania,

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Imperialism in Antarctica

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2021

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American Cows in Antarctica: Richard Byrd's polar dairy as symbolic settler colonialism

Cited by 6 publications

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