Antarctica as Cultural Critique The Gendered Politics of Scientific Exploration and Climate Change /

Arguing that Antarctica is the most mediated place on earth and thus an ideal location for testing the limits of bio-political management of population and place, this book remaps national and postcolonial methods and offers a new look on a 'forgotten' continent now the focus of ecological...

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Main Author: Glasberg, E. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Edition:1st ed. 2012.
Series:Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137014436
Summary:Arguing that Antarctica is the most mediated place on earth and thus an ideal location for testing the limits of bio-political management of population and place, this book remaps national and postcolonial methods and offers a new look on a 'forgotten' continent now the focus of ecological concern.
Physical Description:XXVIII, 174 p. 16 illus. online resource.
ISBN:9781137014436