The Routledge Handbook of Social Studies of Outer Space offers state-of-the-art overview of contemporary social and cultural research on outer space. International in scope, the thirty-eight contributions by over fifty leading researchers and artists across a variety of disciplines and fields of knowledge, present a range of debates and pose key questions about the crafting of futures in relation to outer space. The Handbook is a call to attend more carefully to engagements with outer space, empirically, affectively, and theoretically, while characterizing current research practices and outlining future research agendas. This recalibration opens profound questions of intersectional politics, race, equity, and environmental justice around the contested topics of space exploration and life off-Earth. Among the many themes included in the volume are the various infrastructures, networks and systems that enable and sustain space exploration; space heritage; the ethics of outer space; social and environmental justice; fundamental debates about life in outer space as it pertains to both astrobiology and SETI; the study of scientific communities; the human body and consciousness; Indigenous astronomical systems of Knowledge; contemporary space art; and ongoing critical interventions to overcome the legacies of colonialism and dismantle hegemonic narratives of outer space.
This book offers a state-of-the-art overview of contemporary social and cultural research on outer space. With over thirty contributors, 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.
1. Social Studies of Outer Space: Pluriversal Articulations Part 1:
Fields
2. Trilogie Terrestre
3. Refielding in More-Than-Terran Spaces
4.
Space and Time Through Material Culture: An Account of Space Archaeology
5.
Anthropology and Contemporary Space Exploration, with a Note on Hopi Ladders
6. Planetary Ethnography in a "SpaceX Village": History, Borders, and the
Work of "Beyond"
7. The Spaces of Outer Space
8. Sociological Approaches to
Outer Space
9. Space Ethics
10. Other Worlds, Other Views: Contemporary
Artists and Space Exploration Part 2: Intersections and Interventions
11. As
Above, So Below: Space and Race in the Space Race
12. A Chronopolitics of
Outer Space: A Poetics of Tomorrowing
13. Feminist Approaches to Outer Space:
Engagements with Technology, Labour, and Environment
14. The Iconography of
the Astronaut as a Critical Enquiry of Space Law
15. Diversity in Space
16.
Mare Incognito: Live Performance Art Linking Sleep with the Cosmos through
Radio Waves Part 3: Colonial Histories and Decolonial Futures
17. Celestial
Relations with and as Miliyawuy, the Milky Way, the River of Stars
18.
Coloniality and the Cosmos
19. Safeguarding Indigenous Sky Rights from
Colonial Exploitation
20. Anishinaabeg in Space
21. Earthless Astronomy,
Landless Datasets, and the Mining of the Future
22. Reconstellating
Astroenvironmentalism: Borders, Parks, and Other Cosmic Imaginaries
23.
Divergent Extraterrestrial Worlds: Navigating Cosmo-practices on Two
Mountaintops in Thailand Part 4: Objects, Infrastructures, Networks, and
Systems
24. Glitch in Space
25. Preparing for the "Internet Apocalypse": Data
Centres and the Space Weather Threat
26. Space Infrastructures and Networks
of Control and Care
27. Mexico Dreams of Satellites
28. Space Codes: The
Astronaut and the Architect Part 5: Cultures in Orbit/Life in Space
29.
Cosmic Waters
30. Unearthing Biosphere 2, Biosphere 2 as Un·Earthing
31.
Living and Working in "The Great Outdoors": Astronautics as Everyday Work in
NASAs Skylab Programme
32. Adapting to Space: The International Space
Station Archaeological Project
33. An Ethnography of an Extra-terrestrial
Society: The International Space Station
34. Plant Biologists and the
International Space Station: Institutionalising a Scientific Community
35.
Whiteboards, Dancing, Origami, Debate: The Importance of Practical Wisdom for
Astrophysicists and Instrument Scientists
36. Understanding the Question of
Whether to Message Extraterrestrial Intelligence
37. Astrobiology and the
Immanence of Life amidst Uncertainty
38. A Post-Geocentric Gravitography of
Human Culture
Juan Francisco Salazar is an interdisciplinary researcher and documentary filmmaker. He is a Professor of Communications, Media, and Environment at Western Sydney University, Australia.
Alice Gorman is an archaeologist and heritage consultant. She is an Associate Professor at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia.
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