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Decolonising AntarcticaIn Dawid Bunikowski & Alan D. Hemmings (eds.), Philosophies of Polar Law, Routledge. 2020.It has become a trope in the field of Antarctic humanities that the history of Antarctica was no exception to world politics (as once thought), but just another instance of the colonial project at the global level. However, the wrongs of colonialism are normally tied to the subjugation of native populations, and in Antarctica there were none. So what is wrong with Antarctic colonialism? In this article, I point to three such wrongs: first, the unilateral appropriation by a few states of extravag…Read more
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Areas of Specialization
Applied Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |