I was pretty skeptical that this paper in Progress in Human Geography, Glaciers, gender, and science: A feminist glaciology framework for global environmental change research, was real. But at Reason Robby Soave confirms that this isn’t a hoax (e.g., apparently the research was founded through an NSF grant). The University of Oregon even put out a press release:
“The root of this paradigm comes from the era of Victorian Imperialism in which manly vigor and scientific discovery provided the dominant way of both understanding and dominating foreign spaces,” Rushing said. “This results in a total lack of consideration of alternative ways of understanding glacial ice, which is especially troubling in the current age of rapid melt.”
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“We do a lot of modeling and study satellite images, but what if we look at literature, at art, at drawings and recordings of glaciers?” Carey said. “We need to be looking at the cultural lenses on how people describe and talk about their landscape.”
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