Rethinking Geographical Explorations in Extreme Environments: From the Arctic to the Mountaintops Armiero Marco
Rethinking Geographical Explorations in Extreme Environments: From the Arctic to the Mountaintops Armiero Marco Focusing on extreme environments, from Umberto Nobile's expedition to the Arctic to the…
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Rethinking Geographical Explorations in Extreme Environments: From the Arctic to the Mountaintops Armiero Marco
Focusing on extreme environments, from Umberto Nobile's expedition to the Arctic to the commercialization of Mt Everest, this volume examines global environmental margins, how they are conceived and how perceptions have changed. It examines to what extent the status and identity of extreme environments has changed during modern times, moving them from periphery to the centre and discarding their marginality. Mountaintops and Arctic environments are the settings of social encounters, political strategies, individual enterprises, geopolitical tensions, decolonial practises, and scientific experiments.Concentrating on mountaineering and Arctic exploration between 1880 - 1960, contributors to this volume show how environmental marginalisation has been discursively implemented and materially generated by foreign and local actors.
The first section looks at ways in which societies