The poles as planetary places

Abstract

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Is there anything natural about the polar?

“…One might doubt whether the rubric of the bipolar is any more natural than that of the tripolar (see for instance Huettmann, 2012), or even the multipolar. In Ancient Greece, the poles were regarded as celestial bodies and the link between the poles and outer space has been articulated in a variety of ways in the years since (Leane & Miles, 2017;Robinson, 1999). The examples we have used are also connected to international negotiations and institutions illustrating the linkages between science, technology and society.…”

“…The polar regions are frequently grouped together in cultural artefacts, from atlases to children's puzzles and popular natural histories such as the widely seen BBC series "Frozen Planet." The origin of the word Antarctic, from the ancient Greek ant-arktos (literally "anti-Arctic") strengthens this sense, as does the term "polar" itself, from polos that referred both to a earth's rotational axis and the northern point where this met a celestial sphere (Leane & Miles, 2017). Researchers frequently use the collective term, polar, in the present.…”