Technocratic Antarctic: An Ethnography of Scientific Expertise and Environmental Governance

by Jessica O'Reilly and Jessica O'Reilly

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801456924
• ISBN13: 9780801456923
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher