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Author O'Reilly, Jessica, 1978- author.

Title The technocratic Antarctic : an ethnography of scientific expertise and environmental governance / Jessica O'Reilly.

Publication Info. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017.

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Expertise : cultures and technologies of knowledge
Expertise (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The imagined Antarctic : extremes and exceptions -- Antarctic environmental history : engaging and arranging things -- Sensing the ice : expert intimacy with data -- Samples and specimens at Antarctic biosecurity borders -- Managing Antarctic science in an epistemic technocracy -- Tectonic time and sacred geographies at the Larsemann Hills -- Charismatic data and climate change -- Conclusion : governance in technocratic natures.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Language Text in English.
Subject Antarctica -- Research.
Antarctica.
Research.
Scientists -- Antarctica.
Scientists.
Ethnology -- Antarctica.
Ethnology.
Human ecology -- Antarctica.
Human ecology.
Environmental policy -- Antarctica.
Environmental policy.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: O'Reilly, Jessica, 1978- Technocratic Antarctic. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017 9780801454127 (DLC) 2016034188
ISBN 9781501708350 (EPUB/MOBI)
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