Antarctica as Cultural Critique

Glasberg, Elena

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“…to capture the sense of living in Antarctica without the gloss and glory of our predecessors. 18 In this article, the suggestion of Antarctica as a portal to other worlds and other lives is contrasted with these awkward rituals as practices of the frontier and the wild: lacking the heroism but maintaining, even producing the spectacle of imminent danger.…”

Section: Navigation: Travel On Antarctic Terrainmentioning

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Preparing for Catastrophe on the Polar Frontier

O’Reilly

2017

Environmental Humanities

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Preparing for Catastrophe on the Polar Frontier

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2017

Environmental Humanities

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“…My reaction to the article was affective and visceral. It made me think that it was all very odd and maybe more so because of Antarctica's intersectional histories of human encounter in which white men have often taken to performing on the ice (for example Bloom 1993; Glasberg 2012). I am using ‘awkward’ in the way that American cultural critic Todd Reeser (2011) uses it in his exploration of the affective politics of ‘awkward masculinities’, when the normative and hegemonic model of masculinity (for example heterosexual, white, able-bodied) is challenged, scrutinised and or undermined.…”

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‘Awkward Antarctic nationalism’: bodies, ice cores and gateways in and beyond Australian Antarctic Territory/East Antarctica

Dodds

2016

Polar Record

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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 polar nationalisms. The emphasis on ‘awkward’ is designed to draw attention to the resonances and affordances that are associated with Australian polar nationalism in and beyond the Australian Antarctic Territory/East Antarctica. Using the 2016Australian Antarctic strategy: 20 year action planas a starting point, it considers how bodies, ice cores and gateways are put to work in order to address a fundamental pressure facing all claimant states. That is how to reassure domestic audiences that claims to territory and access are safe, sovereign and secure without alienating others with whom one wishes to do business within a particular area of Antarctica. More broadly, the paper concludes that both claimant states and non-claimant states are rubbing up against one another in areas such as custodianship, environmental stewardship and polar science and logistics. This has implications for how we interrogate the ideals and practices of the Antarctic Treaty.

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Knowledge, Language, and Antarctica: Teaching, Studying, and Theorizing at the Ends of the Earth

Nielsen¹

2019

Handbook of the Changing World Language Map

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Antarctica as Cultural Critique

Cited by 54 publications

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Preparing for Catastrophe on the Polar Frontier

Preparing for Catastrophe on the Polar Frontier

‘Awkward Antarctic nationalism’: bodies, ice cores and gateways in and beyond Australian Antarctic Territory/East Antarctica

Knowledge, Language, and Antarctica: Teaching, Studying, and Theorizing at the Ends of the Earth

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