The History of Ice: How Glaciers Became an Endangered Species
The History of Ice: How Glaciers Became an Endangered Species
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冰的历史：冰川如何成为濒危物种
DOI：
10.1093/envhis/12.3.497
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发表时间：
2007
影响因子：
0.7
通讯作者：
Mark Carey
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作者：
Mark Carey
近几十年来，冰川既是全球变暖的关键标志，也是一种濒危物种。但是，为了理解为什么冰川与全球变暖如此无情地联系在一起，为什么人们哀叹冰川的消失，有必要超越气候科学和冰川融化的视野--另外转向文化、历史和权力关系。探讨冰川的历史观点表明，最近出现的一种“濒危冰川”叙事源于18世纪和19世纪的各种冰川观点：冰川是一种威胁，科学实验室，壮丽的风景，娱乐场所，探索和征服的地方，以及荒野的象征。通过包含如此多不同的含义，冰川和全球变暖的话语因此可以提供一个平台，来实施关于自然、科学、帝国主义、种族、娱乐、荒野和全球权力动态的历史意识形态。
In recent decades, glaciers have become both a key icon for global warming and a type of endangered species. But to understand why glaciers are so inexorably tied to global warming and why people lament the loss of ice, it is necessary to look beyond climate science and glacier melting—to turn additionally to culture, history, and power relations. Probing historical views of glaciers demonstrates that the recent emergence of an “endangered glacier” narrative stemmed from various glacier perspectives dating to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: glaciers as menace, scientific laboratories, sublime scenery, recreation sites, places to explore and conquer, and symbols of wilderness. By encompassing so many diverse meanings, glacier and global warming discourse can thus offer a platform to implement historical ideologies about nature, science, imperialism, race, recreation, wilderness, and global power dynamics.