Handbook on the Politics of Antarctica

Edited by Klaus Dodds, Professor of Geopolitics, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, Alan D. Hemmings, Independent Polar Specialist and an Adjunct Associate Professor, Gateway Antarctica Centre for Antarctic Studies and Research, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand and Peder Roberts, University of Stavanger, Norway

Contents :

1. Introduction
Alan D. Hemmings, Klaus Dodds and Peder Roberts

PART I: CONCEPTUALIZING ANTARCTICA
2. Fictionalizing Antarctica
Elizabeth Leane

3. Three Waves of Antarctic Imperialism
Shirley V. Scott

4. Post-colonial Antarctica
Klaus Dodds and Christy Collis

5. Heroic and Post-colonial Antarctic Narratives
Nicoletta Brazzelli

6. Antarctica: Feminist Art Practices and Disappearing Polar Landscapes in the Age of the Anthropocene
Lisa E. Bloom

7. The Continent for Science
Aant Elzinga

8. Mediating Antarctica in Digital Culture: Politics of Representation and Visualisation in Art and Science
Juan Francisco Salazar

9. Common Interest and Common Heritage in Antarctica
Rüdiger Wolfrum

10. Modern Explorers
Peder Roberts

11. Life, Ice and Ocean: Contemporary Antarctic Spaces
Alessandro Antonello

12. Selling the South: Commercialisation and Marketing of Antarctica
Hanne Nielsen

13. Antarctic Geopolitics
Klaus Dodds

PART II: ACTING IN AND BEYOND ANTARCTICA
14. Establishing Open Rights in the Antarctic and Outer Space: Cold War Rivalries and Geopolitics in the 1950s and 1960s
Roger D. Launius

15. The Originals: The Role and Influence of the Original Signatories to the Antarctic Treaty
Marcus Haward

16. Territorial Claims and Coastal States
Patrizia Vigni and Francesco Francioni

17. Antarctica and the United Nations
Peter J. Beck

18. The EU and the Antarctic: Strange Bedfellows?
Nils Vanstappen and Jan Wouters

19. The Past in the Present: Antarctica in China’s National Narrative
Anne-Marie Brady

20. A Modest but Intensifying Power? Brazil, the Antarctic Treaty System and Antarctica
Daniela Sampaio, Ignacio Javier Cardone and Adriana Erthal Abdenur

21. The Politics of Early Explorers
Peder Roberts

PART III: REGULATING ANTARCTICA
22. Politics and Environmental Regulation in Antarctica: a Historical Perspective
Adrian Howkins

23. Environmental Management: the Fildes Peninsula Paradigm
Christina Braun, Fritz Hertel and Hans-Ulrich Peter

24. The Changing Face of Political Engagement in Antarctic Tourism
Daniela Liggett and Emma Stewart

25. Southern Ocean Search and Rescue: Politics and Platforms
Julia Jabour

26. CCAMLR: An Ecosystem Approach to the Southern Ocean in the Anthropocene
Henrik Österblom and Olof Olsson

27. Fishing the Bottom of the Earth: The Political Challenges of Ecosystem-base Management
Cassandra M. Brooks and David G. Ainley

28. An Icy Reception or a Warm Embrace? the Antarctic Treaty System and the International Law of the Sea
Tim Stephens

29. Svalbard and Antarctica: Problems and Solutions
Stuart Kaye

30. Antarctic Cultural Heritage: Geopolitics and Management
Ricardo Roura

31. Working Geopolitics: Sealing, Whaling, and Industrialized Antarctica
Dag Avango

PART IV: FUTURES IN ANTARCTICA
32. Antarctic Politics in a Transforming Global Geopolitics
Alan D. Hemmings

33. Antarctic Environmental Challenges in a Global Context
Steven L. Chown

34. Argentine Territorial Nationalism in the South Atlantic and Antarctica
Matthew C. Benwell

35. Global Legal Norms in the Antarctic
Ruth Davis

36. Contemporary Security Concerns
Elizabeth Nyman

37. Contemporary Environmental Politics and Discourse Analysis in Antarctica
Lize-Marié van der Watt

Index