Adrian Howkins
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3608387 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Adrian Howkins |
| PRENOMES | Adrian |
| SOBRENOME | Howkins |
| ASSINATURA | HOWKINS A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Bristol |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9615-2337 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2006 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Framing conservation in the Anthropocene
Hanne Elliot Fønss Nielsen. Brand Antarctica
A Few Acres of Ice
The Cambridge History of the Polar Regions
The Cambridge History of the Polar Regions is a landmark collection drawing together the history of the Arctic and Antarctica from the earliest times to the present. Structured as a series of thematic chapters, an international team of scholars offer a range of perspectives from environmental history, the history of science and exploration, cultural history, and the more traditional approaches of political, social, economic, and imperial history.…
Better Together? The Values, Obstacles, Opportunities, and Prospects for Collaborative Research in Environmental History
Environmental historians have long argued for the value of collaborative research, many have called for more of it, and some have experimented with new forms of teamwork. Yet data gathered from three prominent journals—Environmental History, Environment and History, and the Journal of Historical Geography—show that, over the fifteen-year period from 2006 through 2020, coauthorship on published research remained remarkably rare, with no discernibl…
Alan D. Roe. Into Russian Nature
Alan D. Roe’s Into Russian Nature: Tourism, Environmental Protection, and National Parks in the Twentieth Century tells the story of the emergence of the national parks movement in Russia from the early twentieth century to the present. On September 21, 1921, the communist party in Russia passed the law: On the Protection of Monuments of Nature, Gardens, and Parks. Although the law contained references to national parks among other models of natu…
The rise of technocratic environmentalism
John R. Bockstoce. White Fox and Icy Seas in the Western Arctic
Contemporary discussions of a “New Arctic” frequently forget that high northern latitudes have long been a location for trade and cultural exchange. In the rush to brand today’s rapidly warming Arctic “open for business,” there is a tendency to create the impression of a static past, which obscures the historical reality of economic and social dynamism. In the Western Arctic in the early twentieth century, it was the turn of a fur trade based on …
Frozen Empires
This book examines the environmental history of the Antarctic Peninsula region from the early twentieth century to the present. As the most politically contested part of the Antarctic continent, the Antarctic Peninsula region is a good location for considering the intersection of diplomatic history and environmental history. In making imperial claims to the “Falkland Islands Dependencies,” British officials argued that the production of useful sc…
Frozen Empires
An Environmental History of Decolonization
The contest between British imperialism and South American nationalism connects the Antarctic Peninsula region to a much broader mid-twentieth-century history of decolonization. Given the centrality of the environment to the politics of the region, this chapter suggests that the dispute over sovereignty can usefully be viewed as an environmental history of decolonization. The challenge to British imperial claims also came from economic concerns, …
Taylor's Valley
With a particular focus on ecosystem response to climate change, this paper investigates how a study of Griffith Taylor's 1911 expedition into the McMurdo Dry Valleys in East Antarctica might contribute to contemporary ecological research in the region. As the location of a Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) site, the McMurdo Dry Valleys offer an excellent location for thinking about the integration of history and ecology. Following a brief des…
Frozen Assets
Forum
This Forum explores global climate change, one of this century's most prominent environmental issues. Authors answer two critical questions: (1) How does the study of climate history enrich the field of environmental history more broadly? (2) How can environmental historians contribute to present-day understandings of and responses to global climate change? This introductory essay (and the Forum more generally) contribute to both environmental hi…
Polarized climates
This paper suggests that the Polar Regions are excellent places for thinking about historical interactions between climate change, science, and politics from the beginning of the Cold War up to the present. Since the second half of the 1940s, science has played a central role in contesting claims to political authority in both the Arctic and the Antarctic. Research conducted in the Polar Regions has made a major contribution to the science of cli…
Melting Empires? Climate Change and Politics in Antarctica since the International Geophysical Year
This article examines the relationship between climate change and politics in Antarctica since the International Geophysical Year of 1957-8, paying particular attention to the work of the British Antarctic Survey. Research conducted in Antarctica has played an important role in the understanding of climate change on a global scale. In turn, fears about the consequences of global climate change have radically changed perceptions of Antarctica and …
Appropriating Space
Throughout the nineteenth century and into the twentieth, colonial powers frequently used the rhetoric of ‘empty lands’ to justify their actions. Almost always, of course, such rhetoric was nothing but myth: used to legitimate violence and dehumanise Indigenous inhabitants. In one continent, however, colonial powers laid claim to a territory that really was empty: Antarctica. The southern continent is the coldest, the windiest and the driest plac…
Have You Been There?” Some Thoughts on (Not) Visiting Antarctica
Cinderellas of the Soil
In the last three or four years the history of the Second World War Women’s Land Army (WLA) has begun to attract attention in the press and elsewhere. WLA vets were ‘allowed’ to march past the Cenotaph on Armistice Day for the first time in 2000, and their award, at last, of an official service badge in 2007 has led to an upsurge of interest, particularly in country areas. However, most of that interest has centred on the ‘popular’ end of history…
Reluctant collaborators
Defending polar empire
This paper examines the international response to India's 1956 proposal to raise the ‘Antarctic Question’ at the United Nations. It focuses in particular on the uneasy alliance that developed between the British Commonwealth and Latin America in opposition to the Indian proposal. Although Great Britain, Argentina, and Chile were bitterly disputing the sovereignty of the Antarctic Peninsula region, they shared a common desire to keep the southern …
Icy relations
During the Second World War, both Chile and Argentina advanced sovereignty claims to the Antarctic Peninsula and surrounding sub-Antarctic islands that overlapped substantially with claims that the United Kingdom had made in 1908 and 1917. This article explores the emergence of the concept of a South American Antarctica during this period. Although, at one level, the two South American countries attempted to create a united front against the Brit…
Have You Been There?” Some Thoughts on (Not) Visiting Antarctica
Forum
This Forum explores global climate change, one of this century's most prominent environmental issues. Authors answer two critical questions: (1) How does the study of climate history enrich the field of environmental history more broadly? (2) How can environmental historians contribute to present-day understandings of and responses to global climate change? This introductory essay (and the Forum more generally) contribute to both environmental hi…
Defending polar empire
This paper examines the international response to India's 1956 proposal to raise the ‘Antarctic Question’ at the United Nations. It focuses in particular on the uneasy alliance that developed between the British Commonwealth and Latin America in opposition to the Indian proposal. Although Great Britain, Argentina, and Chile were bitterly disputing the sovereignty of the Antarctic Peninsula region, they shared a common desire to keep the southern …
Reluctant collaborators
The rise of technocratic environmentalism
Melting Empires? Climate Change and Politics in Antarctica since the International Geophysical Year
This article examines the relationship between climate change and politics in Antarctica since the International Geophysical Year of 1957-8, paying particular attention to the work of the British Antarctic Survey. Research conducted in Antarctica has played an important role in the understanding of climate change on a global scale. In turn, fears about the consequences of global climate change have radically changed perceptions of Antarctica and …
Icy relations
During the Second World War, both Chile and Argentina advanced sovereignty claims to the Antarctic Peninsula and surrounding sub-Antarctic islands that overlapped substantially with claims that the United Kingdom had made in 1908 and 1917. This article explores the emergence of the concept of a South American Antarctica during this period. Although, at one level, the two South American countries attempted to create a united front against the Brit…
Polarized climates
This paper suggests that the Polar Regions are excellent places for thinking about historical interactions between climate change, science, and politics from the beginning of the Cold War up to the present. Since the second half of the 1940s, science has played a central role in contesting claims to political authority in both the Arctic and the Antarctic. Research conducted in the Polar Regions has made a major contribution to the science of cli…
Icy relations
During the Second World War, both Chile and Argentina advanced sovereignty claims to the Antarctic Peninsula and surrounding sub-Antarctic islands that overlapped substantially with claims that the United Kingdom had made in 1908 and 1917. This article explores the emergence of the concept of a South American Antarctica during this period. Although, at one level, the two South American countries attempted to create a united front against the Brit…
Reluctant collaborators
Defending polar empire
This paper examines the international response to India's 1956 proposal to raise the ‘Antarctic Question’ at the United Nations. It focuses in particular on the uneasy alliance that developed between the British Commonwealth and Latin America in opposition to the Indian proposal. Although Great Britain, Argentina, and Chile were bitterly disputing the sovereignty of the Antarctic Peninsula region, they shared a common desire to keep the southern …
Appropriating Space
Throughout the nineteenth century and into the twentieth, colonial powers frequently used the rhetoric of ‘empty lands’ to justify their actions. Almost always, of course, such rhetoric was nothing but myth: used to legitimate violence and dehumanise Indigenous inhabitants. In one continent, however, colonial powers laid claim to a territory that really was empty: Antarctica. The southern continent is the coldest, the windiest and the driest plac…
Have You Been There?” Some Thoughts on (Not) Visiting Antarctica
Cinderellas of the Soil
In the last three or four years the history of the Second World War Women’s Land Army (WLA) has begun to attract attention in the press and elsewhere. WLA vets were ‘allowed’ to march past the Cenotaph on Armistice Day for the first time in 2000, and their award, at last, of an official service badge in 2007 has led to an upsurge of interest, particularly in country areas. However, most of that interest has centred on the ‘popular’ end of history…
Melting Empires? Climate Change and Politics in Antarctica since the International Geophysical Year
This article examines the relationship between climate change and politics in Antarctica since the International Geophysical Year of 1957-8, paying particular attention to the work of the British Antarctic Survey. Research conducted in Antarctica has played an important role in the understanding of climate change on a global scale. In turn, fears about the consequences of global climate change have radically changed perceptions of Antarctica and …
Polarized climates
This paper suggests that the Polar Regions are excellent places for thinking about historical interactions between climate change, science, and politics from the beginning of the Cold War up to the present. Since the second half of the 1940s, science has played a central role in contesting claims to political authority in both the Arctic and the Antarctic. Research conducted in the Polar Regions has made a major contribution to the science of cli…
Frozen Assets
Forum
This Forum explores global climate change, one of this century's most prominent environmental issues. Authors answer two critical questions: (1) How does the study of climate history enrich the field of environmental history more broadly? (2) How can environmental historians contribute to present-day understandings of and responses to global climate change? This introductory essay (and the Forum more generally) contribute to both environmental hi…
Taylor's Valley
With a particular focus on ecosystem response to climate change, this paper investigates how a study of Griffith Taylor's 1911 expedition into the McMurdo Dry Valleys in East Antarctica might contribute to contemporary ecological research in the region. As the location of a Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) site, the McMurdo Dry Valleys offer an excellent location for thinking about the integration of history and ecology. Following a brief des…
Frozen Empires
This book examines the environmental history of the Antarctic Peninsula region from the early twentieth century to the present. As the most politically contested part of the Antarctic continent, the Antarctic Peninsula region is a good location for considering the intersection of diplomatic history and environmental history. In making imperial claims to the “Falkland Islands Dependencies,” British officials argued that the production of useful sc…
Frozen Empires
An Environmental History of Decolonization
The contest between British imperialism and South American nationalism connects the Antarctic Peninsula region to a much broader mid-twentieth-century history of decolonization. Given the centrality of the environment to the politics of the region, this chapter suggests that the dispute over sovereignty can usefully be viewed as an environmental history of decolonization. The challenge to British imperial claims also came from economic concerns, …
John R. Bockstoce. White Fox and Icy Seas in the Western Arctic
Contemporary discussions of a “New Arctic” frequently forget that high northern latitudes have long been a location for trade and cultural exchange. In the rush to brand today’s rapidly warming Arctic “open for business,” there is a tendency to create the impression of a static past, which obscures the historical reality of economic and social dynamism. In the Western Arctic in the early twentieth century, it was the turn of a fur trade based on …
The rise of technocratic environmentalism
Alan D. Roe. Into Russian Nature
Alan D. Roe’s Into Russian Nature: Tourism, Environmental Protection, and National Parks in the Twentieth Century tells the story of the emergence of the national parks movement in Russia from the early twentieth century to the present. On September 21, 1921, the communist party in Russia passed the law: On the Protection of Monuments of Nature, Gardens, and Parks. Although the law contained references to national parks among other models of natu…
The Cambridge History of the Polar Regions
The Cambridge History of the Polar Regions is a landmark collection drawing together the history of the Arctic and Antarctica from the earliest times to the present. Structured as a series of thematic chapters, an international team of scholars offer a range of perspectives from environmental history, the history of science and exploration, cultural history, and the more traditional approaches of political, social, economic, and imperial history.…
Better Together? The Values, Obstacles, Opportunities, and Prospects for Collaborative Research in Environmental History
Environmental historians have long argued for the value of collaborative research, many have called for more of it, and some have experimented with new forms of teamwork. Yet data gathered from three prominent journals—Environmental History, Environment and History, and the Journal of Historical Geography—show that, over the fifteen-year period from 2006 through 2020, coauthorship on published research remained remarkably rare, with no discernibl…
Hanne Elliot Fønss Nielsen. Brand Antarctica
A Few Acres of Ice
Framing conservation in the Anthropocene
Geography (16 obras) · Political science (15 obras) · Law (13 obras) · Polar Research and Ecology (12 obras) · Archaeology (11 obras) · History (11 obras) · Politics (10 obras) · Economic history (8 obras) · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies (7 obras) · Geology (7 obras)