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Post-colonial Antarctica: an emerging engagement

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2006

Klaus J. Dodds
Affiliation:
Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX ([email protected])

Abstract

This paper outlines an emerging post-colonial engagement with Antarctica. Although ‘post-colonialism’ is a term that covers a great diversity of theoretical and political perspectives, it is generally agreed that it is united in its critical evaluation of colonialism and associated practices. Antarctica, thus far, has not attracted a great deal of attention from post-colonial scholars. By drawing on the limited engagement with Antarctica thus far, it is proposed that there are the intellectual resources for a deeper interrogation of polar colonialism and associated practices such as territorial claiming and base construction. The paper is intended to be a starting point for a more sustained and potentially unsettling engagement with post-colonial Antarctic projects.

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Articles
Copyright
2006 Cambridge University Press

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