Anna Antonello
Biographic Data
| ID | 636753 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Antonello |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Antonello |
| SIGNATURE | ANTONELLO A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7549-1436 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 89 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Re‐Imagining Australia's Ocean Life and Territories in the Fraser Years, 1975–1983
Malcolm Fraser's Liberal‐National Country coalition government enacted significant legal and policy developments around ocean matters, contributing to an intense moment of national attention towards, and re‐imagining of, ocean life and territories. Fraser appointed an inquiry on whales and whaling whose findings he used to ban whaling in Australia. The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (created during the Whitlam government) came into exis…
Janet Martin-Nielsen. A Few Acres of Ice
Ice, heroes, and history in virtual reality
Antarctic Krill and the Temporalities of Oceanic Abundance, 1930s-1960s
In the decades after World War II, oceans were envisioned as sites of resource abundance that would underpin global development. This essay investigates Antarctic krill and its potential "surplus" as one articulation of this abundance, attending to the cultural and epistemic strategies at play in constituting this ocean abundance. Concentrating on the work of Neil Mackintosh, a world-leading British whale biologist working within governmental sci…
Monumental geo-politics
This article argues that several prominent monuments dedicated to Captain James Cook in interwar Australia should be understood as geo-political acts, as well as signs of the broader cultures of memorialisation attached to prominent historical figures. The article narrates and analyses three related Cook monuments: an obelisk at Point Hicks (Cape Everard), Victoria, raised in 1925; a stone jetty at Kealakekua Bay, Hawai‘i completed in 1930; and a…
Re-storying monuments
Statues, monuments and memorials have been key sites of protest in recent years in communities around the world. Local demands for racial justice and historical truth-telling interacted with transnational movements and concerns. Responding to these urgent demands, some historians counsel re-interpretation of monuments, some eagerly push to topple statues, and others embrace the core of their discipline: to tell the truth about the past, seeking o…
Reframing Antarctica’s ice loss
Physical scientists, social scientists, humanities scholars, and journalists have all framed Antarctica as a place of global importance—as a laboratory for scientific research, as a strategic site for geopolitical agendas, and more recently as a source of melting ice that could catastrophically inundate populations worldwide. Yet, the changing cryosphere impacts society within Antarctica as well, and this article expands the focus of Antarctic ic…
The rise of technocratic environmentalism
Sam White, A Cold Welcome
The Antarctic Treaty as a temporal order
Diplomats, officials, scientists and other actors working with the Antarctic Treaty System have not simply negotiated a range of measures for regulating human access to the region in a physical sense. They are also continually negotiating a cultural order, one in which time is central. Antarctic actors are aware that the Treaty did not once exist and may cease to exist sometime in the future. They are conscious of environmental change. Each actor…
Glaciological bodies
Building upon work in environmental history and the history of science that has critically investigated the relationships between humans and ice, this article approaches the history of the Antarctic ice sheet through the particular experiences, practices and ideas of Australian glaciologists between the late 1940s and late 1980s. It seeks to understand the co-constitution of glaciological bodies-that is, the ways in which the work and search for …
Making and unmaking bodies
The Great Barrier Reef is in grave danger', despaired Sir David Attenborough when he returned after some 60 years to the reef in 2015. The Earth's largest living structure and home to the world's largest coral reef system, the Great Barrier Reef is experiencing significant challenges that threaten its existence as we know it
Ice Cores and the Temporalities of the Global Environment
Ice cores from Antarctica, Greenland, and the high-mountain cryosphere have become essential sources of evidence on the climate dating back nearly 800,000 years. Earth scientists use ice cores to understand the chemical composition of the atmosphere, which has been trapped in the air bubbles between the ice crystals as they form annually; this knowledge also feeds into modeling the climate's future. Ice cores are not simply important sources of e…
The Milan-Hamburg axis
This article aims at showing how and why two cultural periodicals, namely the German edition of Tempo , published by Mondadori between 1940 and 1943, and the German magazine Italien , the official periodical of the Deutsch-Italienische Gesellschaft from 1942 to 1944, contributed to shaping the German readership’s idea of contemporary Italian literature. The analysis of the contents of these journals shows a rather diversified cultural offer, prom…
Engaging and Narrating the Antarctic Ice Sheet
First explored at the beginning of the twentieth century, the Antarctic ice sheet is the largest body of ice in the world and plays a significant part in the earth’s atmospheric and oceanic processes. With its massive spatial and temporal scales, the ice sheet has challenged human attempts to conceptualize and understand it; the ice sheet’s dynamic responses to global warming have further challenged understanding. While there has been a substanti…
Glaciers, gender, and science
Glaciers are key icons of climate change and global environmental change. However, the relationships among gender, science, and glaciers - particularly related to epistemological questions about the production of glaciological knowledge - remain understudied. This paper thus proposes a feminist glaciology framework with four key components: 1) knowledge producers; (2) gendered science and knowledge; (3) systems of scientific domination; and (4) a…
Una Principessa Editrice E Un Editore Distributore Perbotteghe Oscure
This paper addresses the relationship between Marguerite Caetani, the editor of the Roman literary journal Botteghe Oscure (1948–1960), and the publishing house Arnoldo Mondadori. It aims to show the complex mechanism of distribution concerning an Italian literary magazine in the second half of the twentieth century. Through the correspondence of Marguerite Caetani with Arnoldo and his son Alberto Mondadori, as well as with other staff members, i…
Australia, the International Geophysical Year and the 1959 Antarctic Treaty
Australia's experience of the International Geophysical Year (IGY) in Antarctica (1957–8) tempers the dominant narrative of the IGY as a transformative event in Antarctic affairs. This article argues that the IGY was not a great rupture in Australia's relationship with Antarctica. Rather, because of a long cultural attachment to and continuing relationship with Antarctica based in concepts of national security and development, Australian governme…
Glorious Days
Exhibition Reviews
Glaciers, gender, and science
Glaciers are key icons of climate change and global environmental change. However, the relationships among gender, science, and glaciers - particularly related to epistemological questions about the production of glaciological knowledge - remain understudied. This paper thus proposes a feminist glaciology framework with four key components: 1) knowledge producers; (2) gendered science and knowledge; (3) systems of scientific domination; and (4) a…
Ice Cores and the Temporalities of the Global Environment
Ice cores from Antarctica, Greenland, and the high-mountain cryosphere have become essential sources of evidence on the climate dating back nearly 800,000 years. Earth scientists use ice cores to understand the chemical composition of the atmosphere, which has been trapped in the air bubbles between the ice crystals as they form annually; this knowledge also feeds into modeling the climate's future. Ice cores are not simply important sources of e…
Engaging and Narrating the Antarctic Ice Sheet
First explored at the beginning of the twentieth century, the Antarctic ice sheet is the largest body of ice in the world and plays a significant part in the earth’s atmospheric and oceanic processes. With its massive spatial and temporal scales, the ice sheet has challenged human attempts to conceptualize and understand it; the ice sheet’s dynamic responses to global warming have further challenged understanding. While there has been a substanti…
The rise of technocratic environmentalism
Antarctic Krill and the Temporalities of Oceanic Abundance, 1930s-1960s
In the decades after World War II, oceans were envisioned as sites of resource abundance that would underpin global development. This essay investigates Antarctic krill and its potential "surplus" as one articulation of this abundance, attending to the cultural and epistemic strategies at play in constituting this ocean abundance. Concentrating on the work of Neil Mackintosh, a world-leading British whale biologist working within governmental sci…
Re-storying monuments
Statues, monuments and memorials have been key sites of protest in recent years in communities around the world. Local demands for racial justice and historical truth-telling interacted with transnational movements and concerns. Responding to these urgent demands, some historians counsel re-interpretation of monuments, some eagerly push to topple statues, and others embrace the core of their discipline: to tell the truth about the past, seeking o…
The Antarctic Treaty as a temporal order
Diplomats, officials, scientists and other actors working with the Antarctic Treaty System have not simply negotiated a range of measures for regulating human access to the region in a physical sense. They are also continually negotiating a cultural order, one in which time is central. Antarctic actors are aware that the Treaty did not once exist and may cease to exist sometime in the future. They are conscious of environmental change. Each actor…
Making and unmaking bodies
The Great Barrier Reef is in grave danger', despaired Sir David Attenborough when he returned after some 60 years to the reef in 2015. The Earth's largest living structure and home to the world's largest coral reef system, the Great Barrier Reef is experiencing significant challenges that threaten its existence as we know it
Exhibition Reviews
Australia, the International Geophysical Year and the 1959 Antarctic Treaty
Australia's experience of the International Geophysical Year (IGY) in Antarctica (1957–8) tempers the dominant narrative of the IGY as a transformative event in Antarctic affairs. This article argues that the IGY was not a great rupture in Australia's relationship with Antarctica. Rather, because of a long cultural attachment to and continuing relationship with Antarctica based in concepts of national security and development, Australian governme…
Glorious Days
Una Principessa Editrice E Un Editore Distributore Perbotteghe Oscure
This paper addresses the relationship between Marguerite Caetani, the editor of the Roman literary journal Botteghe Oscure (1948–1960), and the publishing house Arnoldo Mondadori. It aims to show the complex mechanism of distribution concerning an Italian literary magazine in the second half of the twentieth century. Through the correspondence of Marguerite Caetani with Arnoldo and his son Alberto Mondadori, as well as with other staff members, i…
The Milan-Hamburg axis
This article aims at showing how and why two cultural periodicals, namely the German edition of Tempo , published by Mondadori between 1940 and 1943, and the German magazine Italien , the official periodical of the Deutsch-Italienische Gesellschaft from 1942 to 1944, contributed to shaping the German readership’s idea of contemporary Italian literature. The analysis of the contents of these journals shows a rather diversified cultural offer, prom…
Engaging and Narrating the Antarctic Ice Sheet
First explored at the beginning of the twentieth century, the Antarctic ice sheet is the largest body of ice in the world and plays a significant part in the earth’s atmospheric and oceanic processes. With its massive spatial and temporal scales, the ice sheet has challenged human attempts to conceptualize and understand it; the ice sheet’s dynamic responses to global warming have further challenged understanding. While there has been a substanti…
Glaciers, gender, and science
Glaciers are key icons of climate change and global environmental change. However, the relationships among gender, science, and glaciers - particularly related to epistemological questions about the production of glaciological knowledge - remain understudied. This paper thus proposes a feminist glaciology framework with four key components: 1) knowledge producers; (2) gendered science and knowledge; (3) systems of scientific domination; and (4) a…
Ice Cores and the Temporalities of the Global Environment
Ice cores from Antarctica, Greenland, and the high-mountain cryosphere have become essential sources of evidence on the climate dating back nearly 800,000 years. Earth scientists use ice cores to understand the chemical composition of the atmosphere, which has been trapped in the air bubbles between the ice crystals as they form annually; this knowledge also feeds into modeling the climate's future. Ice cores are not simply important sources of e…
Glaciological bodies
Building upon work in environmental history and the history of science that has critically investigated the relationships between humans and ice, this article approaches the history of the Antarctic ice sheet through the particular experiences, practices and ideas of Australian glaciologists between the late 1940s and late 1980s. It seeks to understand the co-constitution of glaciological bodies-that is, the ways in which the work and search for …
Making and unmaking bodies
The Great Barrier Reef is in grave danger', despaired Sir David Attenborough when he returned after some 60 years to the reef in 2015. The Earth's largest living structure and home to the world's largest coral reef system, the Great Barrier Reef is experiencing significant challenges that threaten its existence as we know it
Sam White, A Cold Welcome
The Antarctic Treaty as a temporal order
Diplomats, officials, scientists and other actors working with the Antarctic Treaty System have not simply negotiated a range of measures for regulating human access to the region in a physical sense. They are also continually negotiating a cultural order, one in which time is central. Antarctic actors are aware that the Treaty did not once exist and may cease to exist sometime in the future. They are conscious of environmental change. Each actor…
The rise of technocratic environmentalism
Monumental geo-politics
This article argues that several prominent monuments dedicated to Captain James Cook in interwar Australia should be understood as geo-political acts, as well as signs of the broader cultures of memorialisation attached to prominent historical figures. The article narrates and analyses three related Cook monuments: an obelisk at Point Hicks (Cape Everard), Victoria, raised in 1925; a stone jetty at Kealakekua Bay, Hawai‘i completed in 1930; and a…
Re-storying monuments
Statues, monuments and memorials have been key sites of protest in recent years in communities around the world. Local demands for racial justice and historical truth-telling interacted with transnational movements and concerns. Responding to these urgent demands, some historians counsel re-interpretation of monuments, some eagerly push to topple statues, and others embrace the core of their discipline: to tell the truth about the past, seeking o…
Reframing Antarctica’s ice loss
Physical scientists, social scientists, humanities scholars, and journalists have all framed Antarctica as a place of global importance—as a laboratory for scientific research, as a strategic site for geopolitical agendas, and more recently as a source of melting ice that could catastrophically inundate populations worldwide. Yet, the changing cryosphere impacts society within Antarctica as well, and this article expands the focus of Antarctic ic…
Ice, heroes, and history in virtual reality
Antarctic Krill and the Temporalities of Oceanic Abundance, 1930s-1960s
In the decades after World War II, oceans were envisioned as sites of resource abundance that would underpin global development. This essay investigates Antarctic krill and its potential "surplus" as one articulation of this abundance, attending to the cultural and epistemic strategies at play in constituting this ocean abundance. Concentrating on the work of Neil Mackintosh, a world-leading British whale biologist working within governmental sci…
Re‐Imagining Australia's Ocean Life and Territories in the Fraser Years, 1975–1983
Malcolm Fraser's Liberal‐National Country coalition government enacted significant legal and policy developments around ocean matters, contributing to an intense moment of national attention towards, and re‐imagining of, ocean life and territories. Fraser appointed an inquiry on whales and whaling whose findings he used to ban whaling in Australia. The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (created during the Whitlam government) came into exis…
Janet Martin-Nielsen. A Few Acres of Ice
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