Fictional Representations of Antarctic Tourism and Climate Change: To the Ends of the World
Antarctica is sliced off the bottom of most Mercator maps, with the southern latitudes banished beyond the margins. Yet the continent is home to a thriving tourism industry, with over 50,000 people heading south for leisure each summer season. As Elizabeth Leane puts it, Antarctica, which for centur...
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ftunivtasecite:oai:ecite.utas.edu.au:135566 2023-05-15T13:42:41+02:00 Fictional Representations of Antarctic Tourism and Climate Change: To the Ends of the World Nielsen, H 2022 application/pdf https://brill.com/ http://ecite.utas.edu.au/135566 en eng Brill http://ecite.utas.edu.au/135566/1/135566 - mansucript.pdf Nielsen, H, Fictional Representations of Antarctic Tourism and Climate Change: To the Ends of the World, Postcolonial Literatures of Climate Change, Brill, R McDougall, J Ryan and P Reynolds (ed), Leiden, pp. 334-360. ISBN 9789004514171 (2022) [Research Book Chapter] 9789004514171 http://ecite.utas.edu.au/135566 Language Communication and Culture Literary studies Literature in German Research Book Chapter NonPeerReviewed 2022 ftunivtasecite 2022-11-28T23:17:09Z Antarctica is sliced off the bottom of most Mercator maps, with the southern latitudes banished beyond the margins. Yet the continent is home to a thriving tourism industry, with over 50,000 people heading south for leisure each summer season. As Elizabeth Leane puts it, Antarctica, which for centuries has for most people functioned primarily as a symbol, is now an expensive but nonetheless feasible travel destination. Promoted through tourism, Antarctica has become a commodity in its own right. And yet, when it comes to climate change, Antarctic tourism raises a paradox: by carrying people to view the regions that are affected by anthropogenic warming, ships actively contribute to further greenhouse gas emissions. These emissions in turn have global effects, leading to ocean acidification, warming average temperatures, disruption of sea ice formation and sea level rise. In seeking to experience untouched wilderness, tourists are helping to bring about its demise. Authors such as Bulgarian-German writer and translator Ilija Trojanow (born 1965) have explored these complex relationships between humans, ice and travel in their fiction. Trojanows novel The Lamentations of Zeno (2011) re-centres Antarctica. It invites readers to see the continent as part of wider global systems of labour, power, and climate, and to reflect ecocritically on their own relationship with the ice at the ends of the earth. Book Part Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica Ocean acidification Sea ice eCite UTAS (University of Tasmania) Antarctic |
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Antarctica is sliced off the bottom of most Mercator maps, with the southern latitudes banished beyond the margins. Yet the continent is home to a thriving tourism industry, with over 50,000 people heading south for leisure each summer season. As Elizabeth Leane puts it, Antarctica, which for centuries has for most people functioned primarily as a symbol, is now an expensive but nonetheless feasible travel destination. Promoted through tourism, Antarctica has become a commodity in its own right. And yet, when it comes to climate change, Antarctic tourism raises a paradox: by carrying people to view the regions that are affected by anthropogenic warming, ships actively contribute to further greenhouse gas emissions. These emissions in turn have global effects, leading to ocean acidification, warming average temperatures, disruption of sea ice formation and sea level rise. In seeking to experience untouched wilderness, tourists are helping to bring about its demise. Authors such as Bulgarian-German writer and translator Ilija Trojanow (born 1965) have explored these complex relationships between humans, ice and travel in their fiction. Trojanows novel The Lamentations of Zeno (2011) re-centres Antarctica. It invites readers to see the continent as part of wider global systems of labour, power, and climate, and to reflect ecocritically on their own relationship with the ice at the ends of the earth. |
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