Providing case study analyses of the politics of science in and around the International Polar Year of 2007-2008, this volume makes a distinct contribution to ongoing research focusing on the relationship between science, international politics, law and history. The contributors combine both interdisciplinary and multi-theoretical approaches to engage directly with the most recent debates in international relations scholarship, to include discussions of arctic climate change, governance issues, reflections on the Antarctic Treaty and the science - geopolitics interface amongst others. This is the first comprehensive account to look explicitly at the relationship between global politics and science through an account of the International Polar Years.
Author(s): Jessica M. Shadian, Monica Tennberg
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 233
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Figures......Page 8
Notes on Contributors......Page 10
Preface: Legacies of Polar Science......Page 14
List of Abbreviations......Page 18
Introduction......Page 20
PART I Whose Arctic? Constructing Arctic Politics through Claims of Knowledge......Page 26
1 A Changing Arctic Climate: More than Just Weather......Page 28
2 Revisiting Politics and Science in the Poles: IPY and the Governance of Science in Post-Westphalia......Page 54
3 Science, Cooperation and Conflict in the Arctic Region......Page 82
4 IPY Field Stations: Functions and Meanings......Page 92
Part II Whose Environment? Science and Politics in Antarctica......Page 118
5 Antarctic Science, Politics and IPY Legacies......Page 120
6 The IPY and the Antarctic Treaty System: Reflections 50 Years Later......Page 144
7 The Formation and Context of the Chilean Antarctic Mentality from the Colonial Era through the IGY......Page 164
8 Biological Prospecting in the Southern Polar Region: Science-Geopolitics Interface......Page 190
9 Three Spirals of Power/Knowledge: Scientific Laboratories, Environmental Panopticons and Emerging Biopolitics......Page 208
Index......Page 220
