Antarctic Values Survey [Chile]

A preliminary study of perceptions and values associated with the Antarctic in Chile and Australia funded by a University of Western Sydney Research Grant (2011). The study included surveys in Santiago and Punta Arenas (telephone) providing a preliminary map of citizens' perceptions and values of Antarctica, including the role of science and policy and the perception of Antarctica's futures.

Nightfall at Gaia - documentary film

A documentary film set in the year 2035 at Gaia International Antarctic Station which explores the last days of Xue - an astrophysicist isolated and in-communicated after a catastrophic event. The film reflects on the history of  the Antarctic and ponders about the future challenges of a fragile and rapidly changing continent through a speculative documentary-fiction narrative. In early development in 2013 - pre-production planned for late 2013.

Antarctic Cultural Futures Project

An interdisciplinary humanities & social sciences research project on Antarctic futures involving anticipatory anthropology, future geographies, science fiction studies, speculative ethnography and environmental geopolitics.

Picturing Antarctica: Social Sciences and Digital Humanities Research in Antarctica is a UWS funded seed research project that looks at Antarctica as a ‘cultural site’ of analysis and investigates the values that are placed on Antarctica. One of its main aims is to advance contemporary cultural understandings of Antarctica through an analysis of public perceptions and the cultural imaginations of Antarctica, through a comparative  international survey of cultural values and perceptions in Australia and Chile.

The following publications are available for download

Salazar, J.F. (2013) Perceptions and Opinion of Antarctic values in Chile. In Liggett, D. &. Hemmings, A.D. (Eds.) Exploring Antarctic Values. Christchurch: University of Canterbury, Gateway Antarctica Special Publication Series 1301, pp. 48-67. ISBN 978‐0‐473‐24851‐2.

Salazar J.F. (2013) Geographies of place-making in Antarctica: an ethnographic perspective. The Polar Journal 3(1), 1-19.