Year: 2026
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Antarctica has been imagined as everything from the last treasure trove of resources to a green metropolis for sustainable growth to a sanatorium for the treatment of respiratory conditions to a nuclear waste dump. In concluding, the author takes seriously the insights of those who have seen in the Antarctic model a promise, an open door to reconceive territorial governance along different lines than those that have been imposed over the rest of the world. Recapitulating the main arguments of the book, the author proposes that Antarctic values should illuminate what a more dynamic global territorial order could look like, with states and other territorial agents collaborating much more tightly and with the emphasis put on Joint Guardianship geared towards protection. Moreover, Antarctic political imagination should help to move both Antarctic governance and global governance beyond methodological anthropocentrism and methodological nationalism, giving nature the political and legal representation that it has long been due.
Source: Oxford University Press eBooks
Author: Alejandra Mancilla
Language: English
Topic: Polar Research and Ecology
Subfield: Ecology
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Funder: Høgskolen i Oslo og Akershus
OpenAlex ID: W7160931410