Otherwhere ethnography : an introduction to outer space studies /
"This collection is the result of a sustained collaboration that originated at the 2019 Anthropology off Earth Conference, which the editors co-organized together with Régis Ferrière, Joffrey Becker, and Elsa De Smet at the Collège de France and the Observatoire de Paris. The conference was fun...
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| Format: | Conference Proceeding eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2025]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "This collection is the result of a sustained collaboration that originated at the 2019 Anthropology off Earth Conference, which the editors co-organized together with Régis Ferrière, Joffrey Becker, and Elsa De Smet at the Collège de France and the Observatoire de Paris. The conference was funded by the IRIS/OCAV/Paris Sciences et Lettres research consortium, and we thank Stéphane Mazevet and Ludovic Jullien for supporting us without fail. An international workshop at the CNRS-ENS-UA International Research Center iGLOBES, which the editors co-organized with Ferrière and Kevin Bonine at the University of Arizona later that year enabled us to refine our ideas: we thank John Adams, chief operations officer of the Biosphere 2 facility, and Joaquin Ruiz, its director, for their support. Our volume acquired its final shape at the 2022 Ethnographies of Outer Space conference, co-organized at the University of Trento by Praet and Valentina Marcheselli, whom we thank warmly. Thanks are also due to Denis Sivkov, Lauren Reid, Paola Castaño, Juan Francisco Salazar, and Joffrey Becker. Their ideas and suggestions have influenced this volume in a number of ways, even though they did not contribute a chapter of their own in the end. Finally, we are very grateful to the marvellously effective Maartje Scheltens, who helped us greatly to rework and refine our initial book proposal"-- Provided by publisher. What happens when contemporary space exploration outgrows Space Age modernity? In this volume, a collective of social scientists and humanities scholars provides an introduction to the emerging field of outer space studies. This is done by means of 'otherwhere ethnography,' richly detailed accounts of how space research and space enterprises are being rethought in an age where extraterrestrial exploration is no longer the monopoly of a handful of superpowers. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations. |
| Audience: | Specialized. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197790885 0197790887 9780197790878 0197790879 |