Australia's Antarctic Turf
Unlike the US, which constructs Antarctic spatiality as entirely non-sovereign; and unlike Chile, which bases its Antarctic sovereignty claim on Papal Bulls and acts of domestic colonisation, Australian Antarctic space is a spatiality of possession, founded on a bedrock of imperial exploration, repr...
| Published in: | M/C Journal |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
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2004
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| Online Access: | https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q75v0/australia-s-antarctic-turf https://research.usq.edu.au/download/5814efa766fbde131943090f6b05064e2675ce473c8b973105255731609a2cd5/275779/Australia%E2%80%99s%20Antarctic%20Turf%20_%20M_C%20Journal.pdf https://doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2330 |
| Summary: | Unlike the US, which constructs Antarctic spatiality as entirely non-sovereign; and unlike Chile, which bases its Antarctic sovereignty claim on Papal Bulls and acts of domestic colonisation, Australian Antarctic space is a spatiality of possession, founded on a bedrock of imperial exploration, representation, and law. Seventy-four years ago, the camera whirred as a man stuck a flagpole into the bleak summit rocks of a small Antarctic island: six million square kilometres of Antarctica became, and remain, Australian space. |
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