The scramble for the Poles : the geopolitics of the Arctic and Antarctic / / Klaus Dodds and Mark Nuttall

• Autore: Dodds Klaus
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, England ; ; Malden, Massachusetts : , : Polity, , 2016; 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (187 p.)
• Disciplina: 320.1/20911
• Soggetto topico: Geopolitics - Polar Regions
• Soggetto geografico: Polar regions International status
• Persona (resp. second.): NuttallMark
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Title Page; Copyright; Preface; 1 Scrambling for the Extraordinary; Defining the Arctic and Antarctic; Scrambles and Scrambling the Arctic and Antarctic; Re-scrambling the Arctic and Antarctic; Notes; 2 Making and Remaking the Polar Regions; Drivers of Scrambles and Scrambling; Conclusion; 3 Under Ice and Snow; Going Beneath and Beyond: Thinking Volumetrically; Making the Ice and Snow Accessible and Legible; Subterranean Polar Geopolitics and the International Geophysical Year (1957-8); Sizing up the Antarctic Ice Sheet; Measuring the Polar Seabed; Toxic Legacies and Polar Futures; Conclusion ; Notes4 Governing the Arctic and Antarctic; Making 'Global Antarctica'; Indigenous Homelands, Land Claims and Self-Government; Recognizing Land Rights and Rootedness: Examples from Canada; Making the 'Global Arctic'; Connected and Contested Polar Spaces; 5 New Resource Frontiers; Ghostly Geographies and the New Arctic; Resource Frontiers; The Arctic as a Hydrocarbon Province; Indigenous Peoples and Energy Development; Oil and Mineral Rights; Accelerating the Greenlandic Resource Frontier; Deferring or Delaying the Antarctic Frontier?; Conclusion: A Rush for Resources?; Notes ; 6 Opening up the PolesThe Rise of the East; Remaking Asian-Arctic Geographies; Arctic Matter and Mobilities; Polar Orientalism and the Arctic; Polar Orientalism and the Antarctic; Managing Polar Orientalism; Conclusion; Notes; 7 Polar Demands and Demanding Polar Regions; Demanding Polar Geopolitics; Future Polar Demands; Notes; References; Index; End User License Agreement
• Titolo autorizzato: The scramble for the Poles
• ISBN: 1-5095-0402-8; 1-5095-0404-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910162757603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II