Policy and Practice in Antarctica
Autor: Jessica L. O'reilly
Número de Páginas: 642
This dissertation analyzes how Antarctic scientists and policy makers influence environmental management for the continent. In Antarctic society, scientific expertise and authority, as well as conceptions of the Antarctic place, must be constantly shaped through policy and practice. I conducted sixteen months of ethnographic fieldwork and interviews in Christchurch, New Zealand, a central site of Antarctic culture, at political and scientific meetings and workshops in New Zealand, Australia, Scotland, and India, and on a research expedition near Scott Base, Antarctica. I examined the lived intricacies of this international environmental space and people's relationship to Antarctic environmental management by mapping, examining, and traveling within the networks that scientists and other Antarctic community members form. Competing claims of nationalism, scientific disciplines, field experiences, and personal relationships in Antarctic environmental management disrupt the idea of a utopian epistemic community, so I focused on what emerges in Antarctica among the complicated and hybrid forms of science, sociality, politics, and national membership found there. This dissertation...
