The technocratic Antarctic : an ethnography of scientific expertise and environmental governance /

The Technocratic Antarctic is an ethnographic account of the scientists and policymakers who work on Antarctica. In a place with no Indigenous people, Antarctic scientists and policymakers use expertise as their primary model of governance. Scientific research and policymaking are practices that inf...

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Main Author: O'Reilly, Jessica, 1978- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017.
Series:Expertise (Ithaca, N.Y.)
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505 0 |a The imagined Antarctic : extremes and exceptions -- Antarctic environmental history : engaging and arranging things -- Sensing the ice : expert intimacy with data -- Samples and specimens at Antarctic biosecurity borders -- Managing Antarctic science in an epistemic technocracy -- Tectonic time and sacred geographies at the Larsemann Hills -- Charismatic data and climate change -- Conclusion : governance in technocratic natures. 
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