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Rethinking Geographical Explorations in Extreme Environments - From the Arctic to the Mountaintops (Hardcover)
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Rethinking Geographical Explorations in Extreme Environments - From the Arctic to the Mountaintops (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
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Focusing on extreme environments, from Umberto Nobile's expedition
to the Arctic to the commercialization of Mt Everest, this volume
examines global environmental margins, how they are conceived and
how perceptions have changed. Mountaintops and Arctic environments
are the settings of social encounters, political strategies,
individual enterprises, geopolitical tensions, decolonial
practises, and scientific experiments. Concentrating on
mountaineering and Arctic exploration between 1880 - 1960,
contributors to this volume show how environmental marginalisation
has been discursively implemented and materially generated by
foreign and local actors. It examines to what extent the status and
identity of extreme environments has changed during modern times,
moving them from periphery to the centre and discarding their
marginality. The first section looks at ways in which societies
have framed remoteness, through the lens of commercialization,
colonialism, knowledge production and sport, while the second
examines the reverse transfer, focusing on how extreme nature has
influenced societies, through international network creation,
political consensus and identity building. This collection enriches
the historical understanding of exploration by adopting a critical
approach and offering multidimensional and multi-gaze
reconstructions. This book is essential reading for students and
scholars interested in environmental history, geography, colonial
studies and the environmental humanities.
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