New approaches to studies of the Antarctic and adjacent ocean regions have emerged in recent years. Challenging the idea of a pristine, uninhabited continent, this book shows how materialities create, transform, and connect Antarctic worlds, revealing the region as a historically layered landscape deeply entangled with global histories, politics, and imaginaries. It explores how objects, infrastructures, and material practices have shaped human relations with Antarctica.
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Antarctic Materialities
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- Antarctic Materialities
- Contents
- Figures
- Introduction — Materializing Antarctica
- Part I — Creating Values, Narratives, and Meanings
- Chapter 1 — Unfreezing Antarctica at the National Maritime Museum, London
- Chapter 2 — Networks and Object Fragilities: Museums and the “Heroic Age” of Antarctic Exploration
- Chapter 3 — Photographic Negatives: Recorders and Makers of Antarcticas
- Part II — Transforming Objects, Landscapes, and Understandings
- Chapter 4 — Between Being and Doing: New Evidence about the First Human Occupations in Antarctica
- Chapter 5 — Portable Penguins? On the History of Penguin Eggs
- Chapter 6 — Fossilizing Snowflakes, or How to Freeze a Frozen Object
- Chapter 7 — Replicating Extraterrestrial Environments: Robots, Greenhouses, and the Antarctic–Space Analog
- Part III — Connecting Times, People, and Places
- Chapter 8 — Breaking the Ice: Infrastructures and Geopolitics in Post-IGY British Antarctic Science
- Chapter 9 — Catching the Wind: Three Stages of Meteorological Investigations during German Antarctic Expeditions between 1901 and 1939
- Chapter 10 — Well-Found Ship, Full Equipment, and High Hopes: Material Culture Studies and the Outfitting of Historic Antarctic Expeditions
- Chapter 11 — Impermanent Humans, Enduring Materialities: Architecture and Temporality in Antarctica
- Conclusion — The Continuing Impacts of Antarctic Things
- Index
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