A continent of and for whiteness?: “White” colonialism and the 1959 Antarctic Treaty
Abstract There are at least four ways in which Antarctic colonialism was white: it was paradigmatically performed by white men; it consisted in the taking of vast, white expanses of land; it was carried out with a carte blanche (literally, “blank card”) attitude; and it was presented to the world as...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s003224741900069x 2024-06-23T07:47:00+00:00 A continent of and for whiteness?: “White” colonialism and the 1959 Antarctic Treaty Mancilla, Alejandra 2019 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s003224741900069x https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S003224741900069X en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Polar Record volume 55, issue 5, page 317-319 ISSN 0032-2474 1475-3057 journal-article 2019 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s003224741900069x 2024-05-29T08:09:56Z Abstract There are at least four ways in which Antarctic colonialism was white: it was paradigmatically performed by white men; it consisted in the taking of vast, white expanses of land; it was carried out with a carte blanche (literally, “blank card”) attitude; and it was presented to the world as a white, innocent adventure. While the first, racial whiteness has been amply problematised, I suggest that the last three illuminate yet other moral wrongs of the Antarctic colonial project. Moreover, they might be constitutive of a larger class of “white” colonialisms beyond the White Continent. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Polar Record Cambridge University Press Antarctic Blanche ENVELOPE(140.018,140.018,-66.663,-66.663) The Antarctic Polar Record 55 5 317 319 |
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Abstract There are at least four ways in which Antarctic colonialism was white: it was paradigmatically performed by white men; it consisted in the taking of vast, white expanses of land; it was carried out with a carte blanche (literally, “blank card”) attitude; and it was presented to the world as a white, innocent adventure. While the first, racial whiteness has been amply problematised, I suggest that the last three illuminate yet other moral wrongs of the Antarctic colonial project. Moreover, they might be constitutive of a larger class of “white” colonialisms beyond the White Continent. |
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A continent of and for whiteness?: “White” colonialism and the 1959 Antarctic Treaty |
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A continent of and for whiteness?: “White” colonialism and the 1959 Antarctic Treaty |
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A continent of and for whiteness?: “White” colonialism and the 1959 Antarctic Treaty |
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