Elizabeth Leane is Professor of English at the School of Humanities/Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania.

Jeffrey McGee is Senior Lecturer in Climate Change, Marine and Antarctic Law at the Faculty of Law/Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania.

Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

Foreword

Sanjay Chaturvedi

1 Anthropocene Antarctica: Approaches, issues and debates

ELIZABETH LEANE AND JEFFREY MCGEE

PART 1: Governance and geopolitics

2 Governing Antarctica in the Anthropocene

TIM STEPHENS

3 Subglacial nationalisms

ALAN D. HEMMINGS

4 Frozen Eden lost? Exploring discourses of geoengineering Antarctica

JEFFREY MCGEE

5 The Anthropocene melt: Antarctica's geologic politics

JUAN FRANCISCO SALAZAR

PART 2: Cultural texts and representations

6 Ice and the ecothriller: Popular representations of Antarctica in the Anthropocene

ELIZABETH LEANE

7 Listening 'at the sea ice edge': Compositions based on soundscape recordings made in Antarctica

CAROLYN PHILPOTT

8 Save the penguins: Antarctic advertising and the PR of protection

HANNE NIELSEN

PART 3: Inhabitations and place

9 Indigenising the heroic era of Antarctic exploration

BEN MADDISON

10 Populating Antarctica: Chilean families in the frozen continent

NELSON LLANOS

11 Placing the past: The McMurdo Dry Valleys and the problem of geographical specificity in Antarctic history

ADRIAN HOWKINS

PART 4: Conclusion

12 Antarctica looking forward: Four themes

JEFFREY MCGEE AND ELIZABETH LEANE

Index