Rebecca is a PhD candidate from the School of Humanities and Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies at the University of Tasmania (UTAS), Hobart, Australia. Her project is investigating the geopolitics of Antarctic heritage management and she is now in her second year of candidature. Prior to undertaking this project, she completed a Master of International Affairs and Bachelor of Arts at the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, Australia.
Sessions in which Rebecca Hingley participates
Saturday 14 December, 2019
The management of heritage in Antarctica is dictated by a framework codified within the Antarctic Treaty System (ATS) with sites listed on the official Historic Sites and Monuments list. To assume that the conceptualisation of heritage embodied within this document is unanimously accepted, however, is problematic. A 'hierarchy of heritages' that sees one approach enshrined in international law over others is suspected, but whose perspective is it? It is tempting to consider Antarctica as e...