Technocratic Antarctic: An Ethnography of Scientific Expertise and Environmental Governance
(Part of the Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge Series)
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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...
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
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