The Greening of Antarctica

In the interests of full disclosure, I should note that I was a Ph.D. examiner of the author of this book, Alessandro Antonello, and that I thought it was a rich and provocative exemplar of environmental history. As a political geographer who has researched the contested geopolitics and governance of Antarctica for many years, I consider that the Ph.D. thesis, now revised in this monograph, is a welcome intervention in both environmental history and Antarctic humanities. Informed and infused by theoretical work on assemblage theory and regime development, it offers the reader a spirited and humane investigation into how Antarctica became a space of, and for, environmental governance. As befits the author’s multi-disciplinary provenance, it is also attentive to the imaginative and performative qualities of this subject-matter. In other words, there is plenty of attention given to the human dramas and more than human forces and perturbation that encourage and/or frustrate attempts to garner support for particular kinds of intervention

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