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The Everest Effect Nature Culture Ideology Elizabeth Mazzolini

SKU: BELL-5719122

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Publisher: University of Alabama Press

File Extension: PDF

File size: 1.56 MB

Pages: 213

Author: Elizabeth Mazzolini

Language: English

Year: 2015

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The Everest Effect Nature Culture Ideology Elizabeth Mazzolini by Elizabeth Mazzolini instant download after payment.

In The Everest Effect Elizabeth Mazzolini traces a series
of ideological shifts in the status of Mount Everest in Western culture
over the past century to the present day and links these shifts to
technologies used in climbs. By highlighting the intersections of
technology and cultural ideologies at this site of environmental
extremity, she shows both how nature is shaped—physically and
symbolically—by cultural values and how extreme natural phenomena shape
culture.

Nostalgia, myth, and legend are intrinsic
features of the conversations that surround discussions of historic and
contemporary climbs of Everest, and those conversations themselves
reflect changing relations between nature, technology, and ideology.
Each of the book’s chapters links a particular value with a particular
technology to show how technology is implicated in Mount Everest’s
cultural standing and commodification: authenticity is linked with
supplemental oxygen; utility with portable foodstuffs; individuality
with communication technology; extremity with visual technology; and
ability with money. These technologies, Mazzolini argues, are
persuasive—and increasingly so as they work more quickly and with more
intimacy on our bodies and in our daily lives.

As
Mazzolini argues, the ideologies that situate Mount Everest in Western
culture today are not debased and descended from a more noble time;
rather, the material of the mountain and its surroundings and the
technologies deployed to encounter it all work more immediately with the
bodies and minds of actual and “armchair” mountaineers than ever
before. By moving the analysis of a natural site and phenomenon away
from the traditional labor of production and toward the symbolic labor
of affective attachment, The Everest Effect shows that the body and nature have helped constitute the capitalization that is usually characterized as taking over Everest.