Salvaging Empire: Sovereignty, Natural Resources, and Environmental Science in the South Atlantic

Salvaging Empire probes the historical roots and current predicaments of a twenty-first century settler colony seeking to...
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Author: James J. a. Blair
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Salvaging Empire: Sovereignty, Natural Resources, and Environmental Science in the South Atlantic by Blair, James J. a.

Salvaging Empire: Sovereignty, Natural Resources, and Environmental Science in the South Atlantic

$471.88

Salvaging Empire: Sovereignty, Natural Resources, and Environmental Science in the South Atlantic

$471.88
Author: James J. a. Blair
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Salvaging Empire probes the historical roots and current predicaments of a twenty-first century settler colony seeking to control an uncertain future through resource management and environmental science. Four decades after a violent 1982 war between the United Kingdom and Argentina reestablished British authority over the Falkland Islands (Las Malvinas in Spanish), a commercial fishing boom and offshore oil discoveries have intensified the sovereignty dispute over the South Atlantic archipelago. Scholarly literature on the South Atlantic focuses primarily on military history of the 1982 conflict. However, contested claims over natural resources have now made this disputed territory a critical site for examining the wider relationship between imperial sovereignty and environmental governance. James J. A. Blair argues that by claiming self-determination and consenting to British sovereignty, the Falkland Islanders have crafted a settler colonial protectorate to extract resources and extend empire in the South Atlantic. Responding to current debates in environmental anthropology, critical geography, Atlantic history, political ecology, and science and technology studies, Blair describes how settlers have asserted indigeneity in dynamic relation with the environment. Salvaging Empire uncovers the South Atlantic's outsized importance for understanding the broader implications of resource management and environmental science for the geopolitics of empire.



Author: James J. a. Blair
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 08/15/2023
Pages: 318
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d
ISBN: 9781501771170

About the Author

James J. A. Blair is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Anthropology at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.


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