Colonialism and Antarctica

Alejandra Mancilla is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oslo.Peder Roberts is Associate Professor of Modern History at the University of Stavanger and a researcher in the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment at KTH Royal Institute of Technology.

• Introduction: What colonialism tells us about Antarctica, and what Antarctica tells us about colonialism – Alejandra Mancilla and Peder Roberts 1 Antarctic minerals for the Soviet Bloc? Imagining the South Pole frontier of extractive socialism – Roman Khandozhko2 Imperial rockets, colonial geographies: Algeria, Antarctica, Guiana, and the French Space Program, 1959–74 – Katherine Mariko Sinclair3 Narratives of colonialism in Antarctica through the lens of HSMs – Katarzyna Jarosz 4 Argentina and Chile’s Antarctic colonialism? A postcolonial critique to Eurocentric analysis – Cardone, Ignacio Javier5 South American claims in Antarctica: colonial, malgré tout – Alejandra Mancilla6 Colonialism without religion? Faith and politics in the history of Antarctica – Adrian Howkins7 The colonial and extracolonial bordering of Antarctica – Germana Nicklin8 Nineteenth century connections between capitalism and colonialism in Antarctica: the case of sealing in the South Shetlands – María Jimena Cruz, Melisa A. Salerno and Andrés Zarankin 9 Animals, colonialism, and Antarctica – Peder Roberts and Kati Lindström10 Settler colonial mind-sets at Halley research station, 1955 – present – Alice Oates 11 Domination as a legacy of the colonial origins and structure of the Antarctic Treaty System – Yelena Yermakova12 Techno-autochthony: for an ethnography of scientific colonisation in Antarctica – Luís Guilherme Resende de AssisPostscript - Antarctica & Colonialism: A Historian’s Reflections – Rebecca Herman