Speculative fabulation : researching worlds to come in Antarctica
Antarctica has been imagined and fantasized for millennia, yet it has remained – until now – off-limits to the ethnographic imagination. In this chapter I reflect on a specific aspect of my on-going research and many years of short-term ethnographic fieldwork in the Antarctic Peninsula: the making o...
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ftunivwestsyd:oai:researchdirect.westernsydney.edu.au:uws_40868 2023-05-15T13:34:53+02:00 Speculative fabulation : researching worlds to come in Antarctica Salazar, Juan Francisco (R11072) Salazar, Juan Francisco (Editor) Pink, Sarah (Editor) Irving, Andrew (Editor) Sjoberg, Johannes (Editor) Institute for Culture and Society (Host institution) 2017 print 20 http://handle.westernsydney.edu.au:8081/1959.7/uws:40868 eng eng U.K., Bloosmbury Anthropologies and Futures: Researching Emerging and Uncertain Worlds--9781474264884--9781474264891 pp: 151-170 160104 - Social and Cultural Anthropology 200204 - Cultural Theory Antarctica anthropology ethnology climatic changes book chapter Text 2017 ftunivwestsyd 2020-12-05T17:49:26Z Antarctica has been imagined and fantasized for millennia, yet it has remained – until now – off-limits to the ethnographic imagination. In this chapter I reflect on a specific aspect of my on-going research and many years of short-term ethnographic fieldwork in the Antarctic Peninsula: the making of the documentary film Nightfall on Gaia1 (2015), which, I argue, illustrates a creative approach to researching futures anthropologically and engaging with an anthropology of extreme environments. An overarching aim of my research endeavour in the Antarctic has been to better understand how humans are learning to live on the Ice. That is, how humans have come to inhabit an extreme environment that was almost completely out-of-bounds as recently as little more than 100 years ago. Book Part Antarc* Antarctic Antarctic Peninsula Antarctica University of Western Sydney (UWS): Research Direct Antarctic Antarctic Peninsula Endeavour ENVELOPE(162.000,162.000,-76.550,-76.550) The Antarctic |
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Antarctica has been imagined and fantasized for millennia, yet it has remained – until now – off-limits to the ethnographic imagination. In this chapter I reflect on a specific aspect of my on-going research and many years of short-term ethnographic fieldwork in the Antarctic Peninsula: the making of the documentary film Nightfall on Gaia1 (2015), which, I argue, illustrates a creative approach to researching futures anthropologically and engaging with an anthropology of extreme environments. An overarching aim of my research endeavour in the Antarctic has been to better understand how humans are learning to live on the Ice. That is, how humans have come to inhabit an extreme environment that was almost completely out-of-bounds as recently as little more than 100 years ago. |
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