Large scale historical industrial exploitation of polar areas (LASHIPA) (»Add to Infobox)

Research Leader: Dag Avango Guest Professor Maths Isacson, Professor emerita Marie Nisser, Professor Sverker Sörlin

History of Science and Technology

The aim of the LASHIPA project is to explain the development of industry in the polar areas from the year 1600 to now and to describe the natural and geopolitical consequences of that development. The project works from an international comparative perspective, breaking away from national frameworks common in polar history. LASHIPA deals with polar industries in a circumpolar perspective, but two areas have been selected as targets for case studies – Svalbard in the Arctic and South Georgia in the Antarctic. These areas have been focal points for international competition over both natural resources and political influence over the course of their history, thus being areas where the research problems of the project may be addressed in a limited geographical context. LASHIPA is a project within the framework of the International Polar Year (IPY 2007-2008) – a giant scientific undertaking, involving researchers, universities and nations from all around the world. In the LASHIPA project, the Div of History of Science & Technology collaborates with the Arctic Centre/Groningen Institute of Archaeology in the Netherlands, Industrial Archaeology at Michigan Technological University in the USA, The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, (RCAHMS), The Directorate for Cultural Heritage in Norway and the Institute of Archaeology at the Russian Academy of Sciences. Period: 2006-07-01 - 2010-03-01 Keywords: Antarctic, Archeology, Arctic, History of technology, Industrial heritage, Polar

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