Legacies and change in polar sciences: historical, legal and political reflections on the International Polar Year/ edited by Jessica M. Shadian, Monica Tennberg. - Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2009. - xviii, 213 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction
Jessica M. Shadian and Monica Tennberg
PART I: WHOSE ARCTIC? CONSTRUCTING ARCTIC POLITICS
THROUGH CLAIMS OF KNOWLEDGE /
1 A Changing Arctic Climate: More than Just Weather
Annika E. Nilsson
2 Revisiting Politics and Science in the Poles:
IPY and the Governance of Science in Post-Westphalia
Jessica M. Shadian
3 Science, Cooperation and Conflict in the Arctic Region
Rob Hiiebert
4 IPY Field Stations: Functions and Meanings
Urban Wrctkberg
PART H: WHOSE ENVIRONMENT? SCIENCE AND POLITICS IN
ANTARCTICA
5 Antarctic Science, Politics and IPY Legacies
Julia Jabour and Marcus Haward
6 The IPY and the Antarctic Treaty System:
Reflections 50 Years Later
Donald R. Rothwell
7 The Formation and Context of the Chilean Antarctic
Mentality from the Colonial Era through the IGY
Consiielo Leon Woppke
8 Biological Prospecting in the Southern Polar Region:
Science-Geopolitics Interface
Sanjay Chatuf-vedi
9 Three Spirals of Power/Knowledge: Scientific Laboratories,
Environmental Panopticons and Emerging Biopolitics
Monica Tennberg

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International Polar Year, 2007-2008.


Polar regions--Research--International cooperation

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