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Subject(s)

• Astronautics and civilization [Browse]
• Outer space—Exploration—Social aspects [Browse]
• Outer space—Civilian use [Browse]

Editor

• Salazar, Juan Francisco [Browse]
• Gorman, Alice (Alice Claire) [Browse]

Series

• Routledge anthropology handbooks. [More in this series]
• Routledge Anthropology Handbooks Series

Summary note

"The Routledge Handbook of Social Studies of Outer Space offers a state-of-the-art overview of contemporary social and cultural research on outer space. With over thirty contributions by leading researchers across a variety of disciplines, it explores the question of why and how to study outer space and provides scholars, practitioners and upper-level students with novel perspectives and critical interventions on a wide range of debates. The volume reflects on the lineages of conceptualizations and studies of outer space and poses key questions about the crafting of futures in relation to space. The chapters address themes including: the study of the human body and consciousness; the various infrastructures, networks and systems that enable and sustain space exploration; the fundamental question of life in outer space both as it pertains to astrobiology, SETI, and the study of human health in spaceflight. The Handbook is a call to attend more carefully to the ways in which we engage critically with outer space, both empirically, affectively and theoretically, while characterizing current research practices and outlining future research agendas"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Contents

• Preface / Juan Francisco Salazar
• Foreword / Lucianne Walkowicz
• Social studies of outer space : pluriversal articulations / Juan Francisco Salazar and Alice Gorman
• Trilogie terrestre / Frédérique Aït-Touati and Bruno Latour
• Refielding in more-than-terran spaces / Valerie A. Olson
• Space and time through material culture : an account of space archaeology / Alice Gorman
• Anthropology and contemporary space exploration, with a note on Hopi ladders / Istvan Praet
• Planetary ethnography in a "SpaceX Village" : history, borders, and the work of "beyond" / Anna Szolucha
• The spaces of outer space / Oliver Dunnett
• Sociological approaches to outer space / Paola Castaño and Álvaro Santana-Acuña
• Space ethics / Tony Milligan and James S. J. Schwartz
• Other worlds, other views: contemporary artists and space exploration / Nicola Triscott
• As above, so below : space and race in the space race / Black Quantum Futurism (Rasheedah Phillips and Camae Ayewa)
• A chronopolitics of outer space : a poetics of tomorrowing / Juan Francisco Salazar
• Feminist approaches to outer space : engagements with technology, labour, and environment / Réka Patrícia Gál and Eleanor S. Armstrong
• The iconography of the astronaut as a critical enquiry of space law / Saskia Vermeylen
• Diversity in space / Evie Kendal
• Mare incognito : live performance art linking sleep with the cosmos through radio waves / Daniela de Paulis, Thomas Moynihan, Alejandro Ezquerro-Nassar, and Fabian Schmidt
• Celestial relations with and as Milniyawuy, the Milky Way, the River of Stars / Bawaka Country, including Dr L. Burarrwanga, Ritjilili Ganambarr, Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr-Stubbs, Banbapuy Ganambarr, Djawundil Maymuru, Lara Daley, Sarah Wright, Sandie Suchet-Pearson, and Kate Lloyd with Naminapu Maymuru-White and Rrawun Maymuru
• Coloniality and the cosmos / Natalie B. Treviño
• Safeguarding Indigenous sky rights from colonial exploitation / Karlie Noon, Krystal De Napoli, Peter Swanton, Carla Guedes, and Duane Hamacher
• Anishinaabeg in space / Deondre Smiles
• Earthless astronomy, landless datasets, and the mining of the future / Katheryn M. Detwiler
• Reconstellating Astroenvironmentalism : borders, parks, and other cosmic imaginaries / Alessandra Marino
• Divergent extraterrestrial worlds : navigating cosmo-practices on two mountaintops in Thailand / Lauren Reid
• Glitch in space / Juan Francisco Salazar
• Preparing for the "internet apocalypse": data centres and the space weather threat / A. R. E. Taylor
• Space infrastructures and networks of control and care / Katarina Damjanov
• Mexico dreams of satellites / Anne W. Johnson
• Space codes: the astronaut and the architect / Fred Scharmen
• Cosmic waters / Julie Patarin-Jossec
• Unearthing Biosphere 2, Biosphere 2 as un·earthing / Ralo Mayer
• Living and working in "The Great Outdoors" : astronautics as everyday work in NASA's Skylab programme / Phillip Brooker and Wes Sharrock
• Adapting to space : the international space station archaeological project / Justin St. P. Walsh
• An ethnography of an extra-terrestrial society : the International Space Station / David Jeevendrampillai, Victor Buchli, Aaron Parkhurst, Adryon Kozel, Giles Bunch, Jenia Gorbanenko, and Makar Tereshin
• Plant biologists and the International Space Station : institutionalising a scientific community / Paola Castaño
• Whiteboards, dancing, origami, debate : the importance of practical wisdom for astrophysicists and instrument scientists / Fionagh Thomson
• Understanding the question of whether to message extraterrestrial intelligence / Chelsea Haramia
• Astrobiology and the immanence of life amidst uncertainty / Dana Burton
• A post-geocentric gravitography of human culture / Alice Gorman.

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ISBN

• 1-00-328050-1
• 1-003-28050-1
• 1-000-89061-9

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