Tainted bodies: scurvy, bad food and the reputation of the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901–1904

Armston‐Sheret, Edward

doi:10.1016/j.jhg.2019.05.006

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“…This is the case with Robert Falcon Scott’s account of the Discovery expedition, in which one can find a few remarks such as “I fear, I much fear, that things are going badly for us” (Scott, 1905b, p. 249). As Edward Armson-Sheret shows, scurvy in particular was dreaded by Scott, who discussed the issue quite openly in his book (Armston-Sheret, 2019). Charcot particularly admired Scott, with whom he later collaborated in developing motor sledges; Scott supposedly called Charcot the “polar gentleman” (Emmanuel, 1945).…”

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How Jean-Baptiste Charcot came to embrace fear but not anger. Emotions of polar exploration and their communication to the public in the 1900s

Simon-Ekeland

2024

Polar Record

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This article makes the case for applying recent developments in the history of emotions, and in particular the concept of “emotional arena”, to the study of past polar expeditions. It focuses on the first Antarctic expedition of Jean-Baptiste Charcot (1903–1905), showing how, despite a lack of ideal sources, attention to the role of emotions in his expedition, and in the way it was communicated to the public provides a new understanding of the culture of exploration of the time. The article pays particular attention to two groups of emotions: first, those related to fear, an emotion that Charcot initially was reluctant to say that he had experienced (his position changed under the influence of journalists who saw the emotion as an interesting selling point); and second, anger and hate, emotions that were deemed inappropriate and were omitted from hidden in published accounts of the expedition, even though they appear in other sources.

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How Jean-Baptiste Charcot came to embrace fear but not anger. Emotions of polar exploration and their communication to the public in the 1900s

Simon-Ekeland

2024

Polar Record

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“…Archives are equally revealing embodiments and materialities in knowledges’ construction. This can be exemplified by the discussions accompanying the surgencies and resurgences of scurvy in early explorers’ crews, as this disease was considered especially shameful and contradicted stereotypes of bodily discipline and performance (Armston-Sheret, 2019). In the context of continuing geographers’ engagements with wider histories of science, increasing attention is paid to archives revealing discussions on matters of scientific authority deriving from fieldwork practices.…”

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History and philosophy of geography I: Decolonising the discipline, diversifying archives and historicising radicalism

Ferretti

2019

Progress in Human Geography

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Starting from the conclusion of the previous report by Innes Keighren on the history and philosophy of geography, this report assesses the ‘state of the art’ of current attempts to make this field of studies more inclusive and to foster the increasing acknowledgement of geography’s plural pasts. It does so by analysing scholarship published this year (including contributions from outside the Anglosphere), which rediscovers geographical traditions other than Northern ones, diversifies archives and places by including feminist, decolonial and subaltern outlooks, and addresses geographical traditions in radicalism and activism, increasingly connecting this field of studies with wider scholarly and political debates.

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“…As noted above, an explorer's personal attributes often played a central role in debates about his or her credibility and it has been shown that white, upperclass European men were regularly privileged above other people (Stern, 2014, p. 65). Indeed, an explorer's body, behaviours, and conduct in the field acted to establish the credibility of their findings and were therefore loaded with broader cultural meanings (Armston-Sheret, 2019a;Driver, 1996;Driver, 2001;Outram, 1999). But explorers' bodies were not simply passive objects that could be controlled and disciplined.…”

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Off the beaten track? Critical approaches to exploration studies

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2019

Geography Compass

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Tainted bodies: scurvy, bad food and the reputation of the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901–1904

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How Jean-Baptiste Charcot came to embrace fear but not anger. Emotions of polar exploration and their communication to the public in the 1900s

How Jean-Baptiste Charcot came to embrace fear but not anger. Emotions of polar exploration and their communication to the public in the 1900s

History and philosophy of geography I: Decolonising the discipline, diversifying archives and historicising radicalism

Off the beaten track? Critical approaches to exploration studies

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