Rethinking geographical explorations in extreme environments : from the Arctic to the mountaintops
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Rethinking geographical explorations in extreme environments : from the Arctic to the mountaintops
(Routledge explorations in environmental studies)(Earthscan from Routledge)
Routledge, 2023
- : hbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes index
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Description
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. 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. 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. The first section looks at ways in which societies have framed remoteness, through the lens of commercialization, colonialism, knowledge production and sport, while the second examines the reverse transfer, focusing on how extreme nature has influenced societies, through international network creation, political consensus and identity building. This collection enriches the historical understanding of exploration by adopting a critical approach and offering multidimensional and multi-gaze reconstructions.
This book is essential reading for students and scholars interested in environmental history, geography, colonial studies and the environmental humanities.
Table of Contents
Introduction: A world that is losing its margins 1. Emotions and Mountaineering for Internationalist Purposes: The case of the Union Internationale des Associations d'Alpinisme (UIAA), 1939-1951 2. Power, politics and exploration in fascist Italy: The 1928 watershed 3. Roald Amundsen vs Umberto Nobile: The role of the newspapers in the age of nationalism and polar imperialism 4. Umberto Nobile between two totalitarianisms 5. Imperialist Italian geography currents in the work of Roberto Almagia and his ambiguous relationship with the fascist regime 6. Walter Wood and the Legacies of Science and Alpinism in the St Elias Mountains 7. Physiology and biomedicine on high-altitude expeditions (c.1880-1980) 8. Italian geographers, scientists, travellers and mountaineers in the Karakoram (1890-1954) 9. Commercialization and Mount Everest in the Twentieth Century Conclusions: Geographical exploration via the environmental humanities: Decolonising approaches to space
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