?Dwelling and Working in Extreme Southern Circumpolarity. The Antarctica and its Winter (Philosophical, Cultural, Social and Psychosomatic Considerations)»

DEL ACEBO IBAÑEZ, ENRIQUE

ARCTIC & ANTARCTIC - INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL ON CIRCUMPOLAR SOCIOCULTURAL ISSUES

FAE (FUNDACIÓN DE ALTOS ESTUDIOS ANTÁRTIOS) Y UNIVERSIDAD DE ISLANDIA

Lugar: Reykjavík y Buenos Aires; Año: 2017 vol. 11

1851-4685

The article departs from different Theoretical Fundamentals, namely: Rootedness Theory (del Acebo Ibáñez, Giddens) -considers the rooted dwelling as a multi-dimensional & total phenomenon (M. Mauss): territorial, social and cultural rootedness; Human Ecology (Chombart de Lauwe, Hawley) -the community as a collective answer to the habitat, an adaptation of the human to the living milieu; Neo-Ecological School (D. Erpicun) -self-critique of the Human Ecology, introducing the individual consciousness, so the environment is seen as interiorized milieu, a territory with shared meanings; Environmental Sociology (Alvira Martín; Boff; Brailovsky & Foguelman; Catton Jr; del Acebo Ibáñez, Di Pace, Dunlap, Faucheux & Nöel, Järvelä, & Wilenius, Leff, Redclift & Benton, Redclift & Woodgate; Environmental Psychology (Aragonés & Amérigo, Baum & Burnes, Bruun & Schnack,Canter,Davidson & Freudenburg, De Young, Dynes, Fisher & Nasar, Lévy-Leboyer, López Alonso, Proshansky & Fabian, Rosenthal et al., Sommer,Schultz et al.; Formal Sociology (G. Simmel) -the relation between the characteristics of space/territory that impact in the social relations (E. del Acebo Ibáñez, A. Paasi, T. Watsuji, Bell et al., Droseltis & Vignoles, and viceversa (Colin M. Harris, I.B. Campbell et al.); Proxemics (E.T. Hall, R. Lécuyer, L.A. Palinkas & P. Suedfeld) - how near or far in term of space are the social actors (it deals with the space and its meanings; Existentialist Sociology ? re-reading of the Existentialist Philosophy (M. Heidegger, S. Weil, O.F. Bollnow, E. Tiryakian, E.del Acebo Ibáñez), and the fact of the human being as dweller and founder of the territory where he lives; Sociology of everyday life and dwelling (del Acebo Ibáñez; Bjarnasson & Gunnlaugsson, Gunnlaugsson, Pyykkönen, Pyykkönen & Luomala) ?nat?l, in Southern and Northern circumpolar regions historic, and socio-cultural phenomena that occur in a territory as a total semantic field (Lefèbvre), -everyday life that implies a ?social text? with many readings and possibilities (M. Castells, G. Lukács, H. Lefèbvre, P.H. Chombart de Lauwe, Jean Remy, L. Voyé; Ágnes Héller/School of Budapest, based in Lukács and husserlian category of Lebenswelt; Sociology of the body and emotions (E. del Acebo Ibáñez, L. Blackman, L. & M. Featherstone, A. Carrillo Canán, R. de Sousa, C.E. Osgood et al., A. Scribano), -human impact of the extreme env?t/climate; Psycho-sociology of mental representations (López Alonso, Moscovici) -of space and time in the Antarctica (L.A. Palinkas et al., J.S. Mocellin, P. Suedfeld, J.P. Bernadelz & M-E. Barbarito), -the existential time address to the biographical, historic and institutional times. Consijdering the Antarctic stations and its Human settlements, we discussed the Antarctican ?spatialities? as it must be considered the heterogeneous cultural geographies of the polar south (Collins & Stevens, 2007; del Acebo Ibáñez). Antarctican spaces are given meaning in the imagination and represented through discourse, but grasping their complex spatiality requires understanding the concrete materiality which people have produced there, and the ways this spatial materiality is interlinked with social processes and meanings (Collins & Stevens, 2007).Everyday Life during the Antarctic Winter is also considered and the Psychological and Biological impacts, as well. It is particularly important the concept of ?Antarctic social identity? (cf. Ron Roberts, 2011; Wheeler, 1999; or Palinkas -n.d.), together with the intergroup contact theory (Pettigrew & Tropp, 2006). In fact, this identity is closely related with concepts like ?mission?, ?heroism?, ?founding spirit? (homo conditor), ?adventure? or ?risk?, always present along the time in the ways of inhabiting the White Continent. It means that a sort of ?emotional geography? emerges (cf. Ron Roberts, 2011), like a ?founding representational myth?, linked to the ?historic missions?.