Arguing that Antarctica is the most mediated place on earth and thus an ideal location for testing the limits of bio-political management of population and place, this book remaps national and postcolonial methods and offers a new look on a 'forgotten' continent now the focus of ecological concern.

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ELENA GLASBERG ****is ****Lecturer in the Writing Program at Princeton University, USA.

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Antarctic Convergence' and the End of the Grid Gender and the Absent Native of Antarctic History 'Sculpting in Ice': Affective Data and the Market Flow Roads To Pole: Territorialization Without Territory and Post Ecological Architecture Blanking the Landscape and Disaster Capitalism The 100th Anniversary of Antarctica's Discovery: Time to Celebrate?