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The Technocratic Antarctic: An Ethnography of Scientific Expertise and Environmental Governance
The Technocratic Antarctic: An Ethnography of Scientific Expertise and Environmental Governance
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 inform each other, and the Antarctic environment—with its striking beauty, dramatic human and animal lives, and specter of global climate change—not only informs science and policy but also lends Antarctic environmentalism a particularly technocratic patina.

Jessica O’Reilly conducted most of her research for this book in New Zealand, home of the "Antarctic Gateway" city of Christchurch, and on an expedition to Windless Bight, Antarctica, with the New Zealand Antarctic Program. O’Reilly also follows the journeys Antarctic scientists and policymakers take to temporarily "Antarctic" places such as science conferences, policy workshops, and the international Antarctic Treaty meetings in Scotland, Australia, and India. Competing claims of nationalism, scientific disciplines, field experiences, and personal relationships among Antarctic environmental managers disrupt the idea of a utopian epistemic community. O’Reilly focuses on what emerges in Antarctica among the complicated and hybrid forms of science, sociality, politics, and national membership found there. The Technocratic Antarctic unfolds the historical, political, and moral contexts that shape experiences of and decisions about the Antarctic environment.

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Release dateJan 17, 2017
ISBN9781501708350
The Technocratic Antarctic: An Ethnography of Scientific Expertise and Environmental Governance
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Jessica O'Reilly

David Lee Miller is Carolina Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina. He is the author of Dreams of the Burning Child: Sacrifiial Sons and the Father’s Witness (Cornell, 2003) and The Poem’s Two Bodies: The Poetics of the 1590 Faerie Queene (Princeton, 1988).

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