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The Technocratic Antarctic is an ethnographic account of the scientists and policymakers who work on Antarctica. Jessica O'Reilly conducted most of her research for this book in New Zealand, home of the "Antarctic Gateway" city of Christchurch, and on an expedition to Windless Bight, Antarctica, with the New Zealand Antarctic Program.
Jessica O’Reilly is Assistant Professor in the Department of International Studies at Indiana University Bloomington.
"The anthropology of science, born with Bruno Latour's Laboratory Life, now enters its second phase with Jessica O’Reilly’s The Technocratic Antarctic. She moves from the laboratory to the field, from networks that link scientists, instruments, objects, and texts to networks that link scientists, policymakers, and entire landscapes. She expands Latour’s view of scientists as humans who observe and think by showing how they feel. Her accounts of men and women at the edge of the world on Antarctic ice lie at the center of new approaches to science."
Martha Lampland, University of California, San Diego, coeditor of Standards and Their Stories: How Quantifying, Classifying, and Formalizing Practices Shape Everyday Life:
"The Technocratic Antarctic tackles important questions about how nature is discovered and policy crafted, intimately intertwined practices binding multiple communities of scientists and policymakers. Jessica O'Reilly has chosen a fascinating field site: the continent of Antarctica and its various outposts—scientific labs, environmental management agencies, Greenpeace mobilizations, the airport in New Zealand, and international meeting rooms scattered across the globe. O'Reilly chronicles five engrossing case studies that illustrate the ways in which science and policy are necessarily imbricated in the most mundane activities and the most monumental."
R. A. Delgado Jr., National Institutes of Health:
"This book offers a focused 'ethnographic account' of those who provide scientific expertise and environmental governance on all matters pertaining to Antarctica. In O'Reilly's work, the scientific and policy practices described emerge from 'historical, moral, and political contexts' that help determine the scope and nature of managing Antarctica.... This book serves as a fine resource for those seeking more information about Antarctica and aspects of its environmental policy. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals."
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