Antarctica by Proxy : an Anthropological Exploration of the Values of Antarctica’s Scientific Data.

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• Emilie Pillon (Université Paris Nanterre)
• Tuesday 26 November 2024, 16:30-18:00
• Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

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From the metropolitan laboratory up to the research station, all the scientific and technical gestures surrounding Antarctica are part of _maintenance work_. Antarctica as a place appears as an accumulation of all those small gestures (scientific and technical, but mainly ordinary) and narratives (blogs, research papers, technical documentation…). They are contributing to make Antarctica last (Denis and Pontille, 2022:11) as a place dedicated to the production of (in)valuable scientific data. This talk will be the opportunity to present an ongoing reflexion about the anthropological value(s) of Antarctica data.

Through the exposition of different field situations, this presentation will explore the relation between the scientific community and Antarctica, in the short time frame when the sample becomes a data. During this moment (event?), it will question the value(s) that scientific data holds as a proxy for Antarctica.

This talk is part of the Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars series.

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• AUB_Cambridge Seminars
• Department of Geography
• ESRC DTP
• Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars
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