Full Description
Societies have always been formed in a relationship with the rest of the universe. With rapid developments in satellite communications and imaging, space exploration and tourism, military space technology, and cosmology itself, relationships with outer space are changing. These changes have inspired a wave of critical academic work in recent years, re-examining the history, present and future of outer space and the place of humans within it.
This handbook provides an in-depth exploration of major themes relating to society, culture and the universe and will inspire and cultivate debate in this exciting and burgeoning area of study for future researchers and theorists. Bringing together scholarship from a range of disciplines including geography, economics, history, political science, sociology, philosophy, science and technology studies, law, cultural astronomy, anthropology, media studies, literature, psychosocial studies and art, it closely examines how outer space is socially produced, experienced, perceived and imagined, and the significance of this for terrestrial social life.
Contents
1.Introduction. The Production of Outer Space; Peter Dickens and James S. Ormrod
2. Terrestrial Geographies in and of Outer Space; Jason Beery
3. Capitalism, Class and the Cosmos; Peter Dickens
4. Satellite Surveillance and Outer Space Capitalism: The Case of MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates; Jocelyn Wills
5. The Meta-Geopolitics of Outer Space; Nayef Al-Rodhan
6. Cosmofeminism: Challenging Patriarchy in Outer Space; Chris Pesterfield
7. Dialectics, Society and Cosmology; Peter Mason
8. Narrating the Universe; Felicity Mellor
9. The Social Impacts of Space Science; Mark R. Johnson
10. Res Communis?: A Critical Legal Geography of Outer Space, Antarctica, and the Deep Seabed; Christy Collis
11. Snared Suns and Liberated Moons: Decoding Cryptic 'Astronomies' in Indigenous Cultures; Lionel Sims
12. Contemporary Cosmologies, Critical Re-Imaginings; Allen Abramson and Martin Holbraad
13. The Whiteness of Cinematic Outer Space;Sean Redmond
14. Seeking the Galactic Club: Fred Hoyle, Carl Sagan and the C/SETI Novell; De Witt Douglas Kilgore
15. Space Activism: A Psychosocial Approach; James S. Ormrod
16. Transmissions from the Noosphere: Contemporary Art and Outer Space; Nicola Triscott
17. Conclusion: The Future of Outer Space; Peter Dickens and James S. Ormrod
