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SUMMARY:Reflections on Analysis and Authorship in Polar Worlds - Dr. Micha
 el Bravo\, Geography and SPRI
DTSTART:20151020T133000Z
DTEND:20151020T150000Z
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CONTACT:Professor Michael Bravo
DESCRIPTION:Writing about the polar regions takes many forms.  As politics
  and global commodity prices have dramatically increased\, how has this im
 pacted on polar writing and what are the implications for us as a communit
 y of scholarly practitioners?  On the one hand\, our goals and standards o
 f academic success are defined by our institutions very clearly in terms o
 f peer-reviewed articles and monographs.  On the other hand\, the circulat
 ion of informed opinion and analysis in the polar regions is taking place 
 through a remarkably diverse range of media\, forms\, and genre: blogs\, d
 igests\, videos\, image banks\, think tank reports\, legal opinions enviro
 nmental awareness-raising\,  as well as articles and books. In this discus
 sion\, I would like us to think about the way in which the use of these me
 dia and genres give rise to different kinds of authorial voices and ways o
 f “narrating the polar regions”. This will give us an opportunity to r
 eflect on how our own writing practices and aspirations can respond to thi
 s rapidly shifting field within which polar analysis circulates.
LOCATION:SPRI Seminar Room
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