The Technocratic Antarctic : An Ethnography of Scientific Expertise and Environmental Governance /

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: O'Reilly, Jessica, 1978- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Scientists.
Research.
Human ecology.
Ethnology.
Environmental policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > General.
Environnement > Politique gouvernementale > Antarctique.
Écologie humaine > Antarctique.
Ethnologie > Antarctique.
Environmental policy > Antarctica.
Human ecology > Antarctica.
Ethnology > Antarctica.
Scientists > Antarctica.
Antarctica.
Antarctique > Recherche.
Antarctica > Research.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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