Wondering Gondwana

Min Larissa, Seattle WA

Investigators

Abstract

Larissa Minn, the Principal Investigator, an early-career writer, proposes to look at Antarctica and Antarctic science from the developing world's perspective, by juxtaposing a non-fiction narrative of Antarctic science with the fictional experiences of a girl living in poverty in Amazonia. The work will examine ?wondering? as experienced as part of the scientific imagination--How does this happen? What factors govern this process or that? How can / do we know this or that is true?--and by the fictional protagonist. Stressing the human relationships between the regions and the very different realities of each situation, she proposes to contrast differences as well as reveal connections between two delicately poised and interconnected systems and reframe readers? understanding of how they understand and perceive these separate lands