The Polar Journal, Volume 5, Issue 1 (2015)

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Editorial

Editorial
Polar, social, science: a reflection on the characteristics and benefits of the polar social sciences
G. Daniel Steel
Pages: 1-7
Published online: 17 Jun 2015
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Articles

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The club within the club: the challenge of a soft law framework in a global Arctic context
Christopher R. Rossi
Pages: 8-34
Published online: 17 Jun 2015
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Assessments, models and international politics of the Arctic: why the “New North” narrative includes only bomber, polar bear, oil, and gas deposit models, and no original parts or an assembly manual
Justiina M.I. Dahl
Pages: 35-58
Published online: 17 Jun 2015
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Overcoming challenges to communicating Antarctic climate science
Serena Schroeter, Nicholas Lowther, Emma Kelman & Marcus Arnold
Pages: 59-81
Published online: 17 Jun 2015
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Framing the national interest: the political uses of the Arctic in Iceland’s foreign and domestic policies
Valur Ingimundarson
Pages: 82-100
Published online: 17 Jun 2015
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Opinion

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Reinvigorating Peru’s role in Antarctic geopolitics
Wilder Alejandro Sanchez & Otto Raul Tielemans Jr.
Pages: 101-112
Published online: 17 Jun 2015
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“Blizzard blowing again and considerable discomfort on board as usual.” Personal accounts of weather as scientific data, and the weather’s influence on expedition members during the Heroic Age
Ursula Rack
Pages: 113-127
Published online: 17 Jun 2015
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Predicting positive and negative change in expeditioners at 2-months and 12-months post Antarctic employment
Chloe Moult, Kimberley Norris, Douglas Paton & Jeff Ayton
Pages: 128-145
Published online: 17 Jun 2015
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Reconstructing the Antarctic tourist interaction ritual chain: visual sociological perspective
Dennis Zuev & David Picard
Pages: 146-169
Published online: 17 Jun 2015
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The making of a home in a changing northern context: an ethnographic account of contemporary housing practices among Russian reindeer nomads
Svetlana Usenyuk, Stephan Dudeck & Nikolai Garin
Pages: 170-202
Published online: 17 Jun 2015
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Staging the south: two contemporary Antarctic plays
Hanne E.F. Nielsen
Pages: 203-217
Published online: 17 Jun 2015
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Bellingshausen and the Russian Antarctic expedition, 1819–21
Irina Gan
Pages: 218-220
Published online: 17 Jun 2015
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Review of Shackleton: a life in poetry
Elizabeth Leane
Pages: 220-221
Published online: 17 Jun 2015
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Book Review
Our ice is vanishing Sikuvut Nunguliqtuq, a history of Inuit, newcomers, and climate change
Leena Heinämäki
Pages: 221-228
Published online: 17 Jun 2015
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Understanding earth’s polar challenges: International Polar Year 2007–2008 – summary by the IPY Joint Committee
Daniela Liggett
Pages: 228-231
Published online: 17 Jun 2015
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Conference Report

Meeting Report
Conference reports, notes and announcements
James Munro
Pages: 232-245
Published online: 17 Jun 2015
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