Between 1946 and 1964, the Dutch Whaling Company whaled each year in the Antarctic; after whaling ended, the company continued to extract protein and oil from the Southern Ocean in the form of fish. The ‘abstract protein’ they processed the fish into aboard their ships was intended to solve world hunger, but actually went to support rapidly intensifying agriculture in the Netherlands. Ailish Lalor explores one particular instance of the Netherlands’ late-twentieth-century practice of pushing past the environmental and economic limits of of its own landscape by harnessing the space and biomass between land and sea.
The Graduate Student Research Workshop is a seminar for graduate students at Harvard University and MIT to present their research to peers and faculty with an interest in European studies. This student-run, student-centered workshop welcomes presenters at any stage of their research from any social science discipline.
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