The Greening of Antarctica: Assembling an International Environment

by Alessandro Antonello

Overview

The Greening of Antarctica reveals how the geopolitical, intellectual, conceptual, and legal foundations of contemporary Antarctic environmental protection and imagination were formed in the crucial period between the signing of the Antarctic Treaty in 1959 and the signing of the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources in 1980.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780190907198
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	05/03/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Alessandro Antonello is McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, the University of Melbourne.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1 Principles for "unprincipled men": filling the household of Antarctic nature 2 Arguing with seals: the changing terrain of authority 3 Mining the deep south: exploitation, environmental impact, and contested futures 4 Seeing the Southern Ocean ecosystem: enlarging the Antarctic community 5 The plenitude of nature and sovereignty: boundaries of insiders and outsiders Epilogue Bibliography

Editorial Reviews

"A welcome intervention in both environmental history and Antarctic humanities. Informed and infused by theoretical work on assemblage theory and regime development, it offers the reader a spirited and humane investigation into how Antarctica became a space of, and for, environmental governance.... There is plenty of attention given to the human dramas and more than human forces and perturbation that encourage and/or frustrate attempts to garner support for particular kinds of intervention." — Klaus Dodds, English Historical Review

"...The Greening of Antarctica is a deeply informative, thoughtful, and well-written history, which challenges readers' conceptions on how they think of Antarctica." — Daniella McCahey, Metascience

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