Dr MARIONNE CRONINThe University of AberdeenSchool of Social ScienceResearch Fellowwork+44 (0)1224 273741prefmarionne.cronin@abdn.ac.ukBlog: Histories of Technology http://historiesoftechnology.blogspot.co.uk/pref
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Material practices of northern colonialism; Imagined northern geographies and landscapes; History of technology; History of exploration - particularly heroic exploration narratives; History of aviation; Canadian history - interwar and northern history; Environmental history
I am interested in the relationship between technology and place in the circumpolar world, particularly the role of technology in the practice of polar exploration, and I have a special interest in the history of aviation in the circumpolar world. My current research examines the polar flights of Roald Amundsen and Richard Byrd in the 1920s and 1930s as a way of exploring how the introduction of aircraft influenced our images of polar exploration, polar environments, and polar heroes. More broadly, I am interested in how the technologies we use to move through northern environments leave traces on our ideas about 'the north'.
Cronin, M. (2010). 'Polar Horizons: Images of the Arctic in Accounts of Amundsen’s Polar Aviation Expeditions'. Scientia Canadensis, vol 33, no. 2, pp. 99-120.
[Online]DOI: 10.7202/1006152ar
Cronin, M. (2009). 'Fading Away: Technological Decline in Canadian Aviation'. Scientia Canadensis, vol 32, no. 2, pp. 1-20.
Cronin, M. (2007). 'Northern Visions: Aerial Surveying and the Canadian Mining Industry, 1919-1928'. Technology and Culture, vol 48, no. 2, pp. 303-330.
[Online]DOI: 10.1353/tech.2007.0063
Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
Cronin, M. (in press). 'The Mapping of Antarctica'. Imago Mundi.
Cronin, M. (2009). 'White Horizon: The Arctic in the Nineteenth-Century British Imagnation'. The Northern Review, vol 31, no. Fall.
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings
Chapters
Cronin, M. 'Shaped by the Land: Searching for the Ideal Plane'. S Bocking & B Martin (eds), in: Perspectives on the Environmental History of Northern Canada. University of Calgary Press.
Cronin, M. (in press). 'The Landscape of Exploration: Renegotiating images of the Arctic in the age of polar exploration'. D Jorgensen & S Sorlin (eds), in: Northscapes: History, Technology, and the Making of Northern Environments. UBC Press, Vancouver.
