Description
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.
Author: Juan Francisco Salazar
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 07/10/2023
Pages: 510
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.54lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 1.19d
ISBN13: 9781032248615
ISBN10: 1032248610
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social
About the Author
Juan Francisco Salazar is a researcher and documentary filmmaker. He is 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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