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New approaches to studies of the Antarctic and adjacent ocean regions have emerged in recent years. Challenging the idea of a pristine, uninhabited continent, this book shows how materialities create, transform, and connect Antarctic worlds, revealing the region as a historically layered landscape deeply entangled with global histories, politics, and imaginaries. It explores how objects, infrastructures, and material practices have shaped human relations with Antarctica.
“This is a well-conceptualized volume that makes an important contribution to Antarctic literature.” • Adrian Howkins, University of Bristol
Daniella McCahey is an Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, USA, where she mainly teaches classes on British history, public history, and the history of science. She has published widely on the history of polar and marine science and exploration in both academic and popular venues. She is the co-author of Antarctica: A History in 100 Objects (Conway, 2022).
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Materializing Antarctica
Maria Ximena Senatore Connolly and Daniella McCahey
Creating Values, Narratives, and Meanings
Chapter 1. Unfreezing Antarctica at the National Maritime Museum, London
Claire Warrior
Chapter 2. Networks and Object Fragilities: Museums and the “Heroic Age” of Antarctic Exploration
Henrietta Hammant
Chapter 3. Photographic Negatives: Recorders and Makers of Antarcticas
Jean de Pomereu
Transforming Objects, Landscapes, and Understandings
Chapter 4. Between Being and Doing: New Evidence about the First Human Occupations in Antarctica
Diego Aguirrezábal and Bruno Gentile
Chapter 5. Portable Penguins? On the History of Penguin Eggs
Ellen F. Arnold
Chapter 6. Fossilizing Snowflakes, or How to Freeze a Frozen Object
Floris Winckel
Chapter 7. Replicating Extraterrestrial Environments: Robots, Greenhouses, and the Antarctic–Space Analog
Daniella McCahey
Connecting Times, People, and Places
Chapter 8. Breaking the Ice: Infrastructures and Geopolitics in Post-IGY British Antarctic Science
Alice Oates
Chapter 9. Catching the Wind: Three Stages of Meteorological Investigations during German Antarctic Expeditions between 1901 and 1939
Cornelia Lüdecke
Chapter 10. Well-Found Ship, Full Equipment, and High Hopes: Material Culture Studies and the Outfitting of Historic Antarctic Expeditions
Sarah Pickman
Chapter 11. Impermanent Humans, Enduring Materialities: Architecture and Temporality in Antarctica
María Victoria Nuviala, María Violeta Nuviala, and María Ximena Senatore Connolly
Conclusion: The Continuing Impacts of Antarctic Things
Daniella McCahey and Maria Ximena Senatore Connolly