Article ID: CBB000931788

Political Meteorology: Weather, Climate and the Contest for Antarctic Sovereignty, 1939--1959 (2008)

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This paper presents a political meteorology that examines the dynamic interaction between politics and meteorology. It does not attempt thoroughly to delineate the competing meteorological and climatic models that developed during the 1940s and 1950s. Rather, it seeks to understand the ways in which the politics of the Antarctic sovereignty dispute and the Cold War shaped the development of Antarctic meteorology, and how meteorological developments influenced the course of the sovereignty dispute. Between 1939 and 1959, Antarctic meteorology and Antarctic politics were co-produced, meaning that the science of meteorology helped to shape the political context within which it developed (Jasanoff 2004). As environmental historians have pointed out, it is one thing to assert vague connections between the environment, science, and politics; it is another thing to demonstrate how these connections actually functioned (White 1990). Through an examination of these interconnections, this paper presents Antarctica as an ideal location for such an endeavor, due to the relative simplicity of its human-nature interactions.

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Authors & Contributors
Vezzosi, Elisabetta
Bini, Elisabetta
Melanie Brand
Rispoli, Giulia
Herrala, Meri Elisabet
Gerardo Ienna
Concepts
Cold War
Science and politics
International relations
Science and society
World War II
Cross-national interaction
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
Places
United States
Soviet Union
Antarctica
Polar regions
Europe
Arctic regions
Institutions
Genetics Society of America
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