How the Arctic Became White: Victorian Explorers and the Erasure of Botany in the Canadian Arctic
For many of us “southerners,” we may imagine the Arctic landscape as a desolate frozen landscape. At the historic roots of this perception is the visual culture of Arctic exploration throughout a long nineteenth century which represented the Canadian Arctic as devoid of its diverse flora. Many explo...
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ftjarcadia:oai:arcadia.ub.lmu.de:article/205 2024-09-15T17:52:58+00:00 How the Arctic Became White: Victorian Explorers and the Erasure of Botany in the Canadian Arctic Gismondi, Chris 2019-05-29 application/pdf https://arcadia.ub.uni-muenchen.de/arcadia/article/view/205 https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/8594 eng eng Environment & Society Portal, Rachel Carson Center https://arcadia.ub.uni-muenchen.de/arcadia/article/view/205/189 https://arcadia.ub.uni-muenchen.de/arcadia/article/view/205 doi:10.5282/rcc/8594 Copyright (c) 2019 CC BY 4.0 Chris Gismondi http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Arcadia; 2019 2199-3408 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2019 ftjarcadia https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/8594 2024-07-14T23:30:31Z For many of us “southerners,” we may imagine the Arctic landscape as a desolate frozen landscape. At the historic roots of this perception is the visual culture of Arctic exploration throughout a long nineteenth century which represented the Canadian Arctic as devoid of its diverse flora. Many explorers were interested in natural history and collected botanic specimens; thus this misrepresentation was a deliberate strategy that exaggerated white male Qallunaat explorers’ claims about their accomplishments. Simultaneously, this strategy of representation emphasized European technology and science while downplaying the Indigenous knowledges that were often crucial to the success of expeditions. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arcadia - Explorations in Environmental History |
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For many of us “southerners,” we may imagine the Arctic landscape as a desolate frozen landscape. At the historic roots of this perception is the visual culture of Arctic exploration throughout a long nineteenth century which represented the Canadian Arctic as devoid of its diverse flora. Many explorers were interested in natural history and collected botanic specimens; thus this misrepresentation was a deliberate strategy that exaggerated white male Qallunaat explorers’ claims about their accomplishments. Simultaneously, this strategy of representation emphasized European technology and science while downplaying the Indigenous knowledges that were often crucial to the success of expeditions. |
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Gismondi, Chris How the Arctic Became White: Victorian Explorers and the Erasure of Botany in the Canadian Arctic |
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How the Arctic Became White: Victorian Explorers and the Erasure of Botany in the Canadian Arctic |
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How the Arctic Became White: Victorian Explorers and the Erasure of Botany in the Canadian Arctic |
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How the Arctic Became White: Victorian Explorers and the Erasure of Botany in the Canadian Arctic |
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How the Arctic Became White: Victorian Explorers and the Erasure of Botany in the Canadian Arctic |
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How the Arctic Became White: Victorian Explorers and the Erasure of Botany in the Canadian Arctic |
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how the arctic became white: victorian explorers and the erasure of botany in the canadian arctic |
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Environment & Society Portal, Rachel Carson Center |
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