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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Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 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.