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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Published in:Polar Record
Main Author: Mancilla, Alejandra
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2019
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s003224741900069x
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S003224741900069X