Taxpayer-Funded Study Examines the Gender Politics of Glaciers

[Valin]

National Review:

So, I guess “feminist glaciology” is a thing.

Katherine Timpf

March 8, 2016

 

Historians at the University of Oregon conducted a “feminist glaciology” study to examine the connection between “feminist postcolonial science studies and feminist political ecology.”

 

What exactly the hell that could possibly mean is not clear. However, it was funded through a grant from the National Science Foundation . . . so the fact that taxpayers paid for it is.

 

“The feminist glaciology framework generates robust analysis of gender, power, and epistemologies in dynamic social-ecological systems, thereby leading to more just and equitable science and human-ice interactions,” the abstract for the paper, titled “Glaciers, gender, and science: A feminist glacier framework for global environmental change research,” states.

 

“Glaciers are icons of global climate change, with common representations stripping them of social and cultural contexts to portray ice as simplified climate change yardsticks and thermometers,” it explains.

 

Damn those “common representations!” How dare we to have continually been studying big ice chunks without thinking of their “social and cultural contexts”?

 

(Snip)

[Valin]

My vision of human-ice interactions

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My vision of human-ice interactions

 

I need one of these after trying to read through that.