The Routledge handbook of social studies of outer space / edited by Juan Francisco Salazar and Alice Gorman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Salazar, Juan Francisco, editor.

Gorman, Alice (Alice Claire), editor.

Series:

Routledge anthropology handbooks.

Routledge Anthropology Handbooks Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Astronautics and civilization.

Outer space--Exploration--Social aspects.

Outer space.

Outer space--Civilian use.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (543 pages)

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, England : Routledge, 2023.

Summary:

"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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-00-328050-1

1-003-28050-1

1-000-89061-9

9781003280507

OCLC:

1389353922