Speculative fabulation : researching worlds to come in Antarctica

• Main Author: Salazar, Juan Francisco (R11072)
• Other Authors: Salazar, Juan Francisco (Editor), Pink, Sarah (Editor), Irving, Andrew (Editor), Sjoberg, Johannes (Editor), Institute for Culture and Society (Host institution)
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: U.K., Bloosmbury 2017
• Subjects: 160104 - Social and Cultural Anthropology; 200204 - Cultural Theory; Antarctica; anthropology; ethnology; climatic changes; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Endeavour; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://handle.westernsydney.edu.au:8081/1959.7/uws:40868

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...