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"Antarctica as Cultural Critique is a witty, imaginative, theoretically-informed explanation of Antarctica as the limit case to United States imperialism. Glasberg's eco-feminist account of Antarctica as a non-territory that aroused the U.S. Imperial state's hysterical efforts to exert total territorial control also explains how this 'little America' at the end of the earth now co-ordinates the psycho-geography of neo-liberal globalization." - Donald Pease, author of The New American Exceptionalism, founding director of the Future of American Studies Institute at Dartmouth
"Elena Glasberg has produced a fecund analysis of Antarctica's past, present and future. In these incisive essays she shows the complex ways in which gender, science, geopolitics, environment, and landscape have engaged with a place so often conceived as a 'pole apart' or 'the last frontier'. Snow, ice and the cold are on the proverbial frontline, and this book implores us to think critically about how the Antarctic has also been caught up in an array of utopian and dystopian fantasies. A tour de force." - Klaus Dodds, author of The Antarctic: A Very Short Introduction (2012) and Pink Ice: Britain and the South Atlantic Empire (2002).
"Glasberg has found the sweet spot in Antarctic studies. This collection of thoughts is a timely and urgently needed reflection on how landscape, gender, and history have intertwined and evolved in one of the most remote - yet eerily also most deeply interconnected - parts of the world.It's a welcome addition to the field of thought in the same context as William L. Fox's Terra Antarctica. A must-read for anyone interested in Antarctica." - Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky, creator of Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Antarctica as Cultural Critique
Book Subtitle: The Gendered Politics of Scientific Exploration and Climate Change
Authors: Elena Glasberg
Series Title: Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137014436
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Elena Glasberg 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-11687-0Published: 19 October 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-29754-2Published: 19 October 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-01443-6Published: 29 October 2012
Series ISSN: 2945-7491
Series E-ISSN: 2945-7505
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVIII, 174
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations
Topics: Gender Studies, Environmental Sociology, Cultural History, Human Geography, Sociology, general, Climate Change