Salvaging Empire

Sovereignty, Natural Resources, and Environmental Science in the South Atlantic

James J. A. Blair (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

318 Seiten

2023
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-7117-0 (ISBN)

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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.

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

Introduction

Dispossession

1. Settler Safe Zone or Colonial Staging Ground?

2. Company Islands

3. Imperial Diaspora

Wreckage

4. Does the Sea Lion Roar?

5. Grounding Offshore Oil

Survival

6. The Geopolitics of Marine Ecology

7. Colonizing with Natives

Conclusion: Unsettled Claims

Erscheinungsdatum	08.07.2023
Zusatzinfo	22 Halftones, black and white; 3 Maps
Verlagsort	Ithaca
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	907 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-5017-7117-5 / 1501771175
ISBN-13	978-1-5017-7117-0 / 9781501771170
Zustand	Neuware