Imagining ice and infinity : constructions of place in the Antarctic and outer space treaties

• Main Author: Wong, Meng Yan
• Other Authors: Farish Noor
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Political science
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/65500
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This dissertation is a discourse analysis of the documentation of various statesmen and diplomats involved in the negotiation of the Antarctic Treaty of 1959, and the Outer Space Treaty of 1967. Using the concept of language games, we can reconstruct from their documents how policymakers on how thes...