Chapter 1. Snow and Avalanche Research as Patriotic Duty? Th e Institutionalization of a Scientifi c Discipline in Switzerland

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Introductions
5. Exploring Ice and Snow in the Cold War 1
6. Cryo-history: Ice, Snow, and the Great Acceleration 20
7. Part I. Science: Sites of Knowledge
8. Chapter 1. Snow and Avalanche Research as Patriotic Duty? Th e Institutionalization of a Scientifi c Discipline in Switzerland 47
9. Chapter 2. “An Orgy of Hypothesizing”: Th e Construction of Glaciological Knowledge in Cold War America 69
10. Chapter 3. “Camp Century” and “Project Iceworm”: Greenland as a Stage for US Military Service Rivalries 89
11. Chapter 4. Inuit Responses to Arctic Militarization: Examples from East Greenland 109
12. Part II. Politics of Confrontation and Cooperation
13. Chapter 5. Creating Open Territorial Rights in Cold and Icy Places: Cold War Rivalries and the Antarctic and Outer Space Treaties 137
14. Chapter 6. An Environment Too Extreme? Th e Case of Bouvetøya 163
15. Chapter 7. Managing the “White Death” in Cold War Soviet Union: Snow Avalanches, Ice Science, and Winter Sports in Kazakhstan, 1960s–1980s 189
16. Part III. Cultures and Narratives of Ice and Snow
17. Chapter 8. Laboratory Metaphors in Antarctic History: From Nature to Space 209
18. Chapter 9. Cold War Creatures: Soviet Science and the Problem of the Abominable Snowman 236
19. Chapter 10. Negotiating “Coldness”: Th e Natural Environment and Community Cohesion in Cold War Molotovsk-Severodvinsk 253
20. Chapter 11. An Exploration of the Self: Reinhold Messner’s Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1989 285
21. Conclusion. Histories of Extreme Environments beyond the Cold War 309
22. Index 318