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Shackleton Syndrome (2020)

Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Volume: 111
Issue: 1
Pages: 112-119

DOI: 10.1086/707821

URI: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/707821

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Emigration; immigration Exiles Adventure and adventurers Tourism Mobility studies Disasters; catastrophes Risk Scientific expeditions Travel; exploration Modern

While travelers have generally sought to avoid peril, some modern ones—namely, explorers, scientists, and adventurers—have come to embrace risk as an essential ingredient of their expeditions. The evolution of risk as an object of, rather than an obstacle to, travel has been long in the making. Yet this evolution is tricky to chart, since the desire for risk-oriented travel has grown up alongside demands for safer travel. In fact, the processes are linked. The tangled threads of travel, as a process that sometimes avoids and sometimes leans into danger, make the story of expeditionary disasters more complicated. Yet they also make these stories worth telling. Travel disasters are not merely the stuff of National Geographic and the Discovery Channel; they are tools that give us new ways to think about modern mobility—scientific exploration, tourism, extreme adventurism, and the travel of exile—practices usually treated independently but that here are connected and compared.

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Article Julia F. Irwin; Jenny Leigh Smith (2020) Introduction: On Disaster. Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 98-103). unapi

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