The Routledge Handbook of Social Studies of Outer Space (Routledge Anthropology Handbooks)

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. Contents 8 List of Figures 12 List of Tables 14 Preface 15 Foreword 18 List of Contributors 21 Acknowledgements 31 1 Social Studies of Outer Space: Pluriversal Articulations • Juan Francisco Salazar and Alice Gorman 34 Part I: Fields 56 2 Trilogie Terrestre • Frédérique Aït-Touati and Bruno Latour 58 3 Refielding in More-Than-Terran Spaces • Valerie A. Olson 64 4 Space and Time through Material Culture: An Account of Space Archaeology • Alice Gorman 77 5 Anthropology and Contemporary Space Exploration, with a Note on Hopi Ladders • Istvan Praet 90 6 Planetary Ethnography in a “SpaceX Village”: History, Borders, and the Work of “Beyond” • Anna Szolucha 104 7 The Spaces of Outer Space • Oliver Dunnett 117 8 Sociological Approaches to Outer Space • Paola Castaño and Álvaro Santana-Acuña 129 9 Space Ethics • Tony Milligan and J. S. Johnson-Schwartz 141 10 Other Worlds, Other Views: Contemporary Artists and Space Exploration • Nicola Triscott 154 Part II: Intersections and Interventions 170 11 As Above, So Below: Space and Race in the Space Race • Rasheedah Phillips 172 12 A Chronopolitics of Outer Space: A Poetics of Tomorrowing • Juan Francisco Salazar 175 13 Feminist Approaches to Outer Space: Engagements with Technology, Labour, and Environment • Réka Patrícia Gál and Eleanor S. Armstrong 191 14 The Iconography of the Astronaut as a Critical Enquiry of Space Law • Saskia Vermeylen 205 15 Diversity in Space • Evie Kendal 218 16 Mare Incognito: Live Performance Art Linking Sleep with the Cosmos through Radio Waves • Daniela de Paulis, Thomas Moynihan, Alejandro Ezquerro-Nassar, and Fabian Schmidt 232 Part III: Colonial Histories and Decolonial Futures 248 17 Celestial Relations with and as Milŋiyawuy, the Milky Way,the River of Stars • Bawaka Country, including Dr Laklak 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 250 18 Coloniality and the Cosmos • Natalie B. Treviño 259 19 Safeguarding Indigenous Sky Rights from Colonial Exploitation • Karlie Alinta Noon, Krystal De Napoli, Peter Swanton, Carla Guedes, and Duane Hamacher 271 20 Anishinaabeg in Space • Deondre Smiles 285 21 Earthless Astronomy, Landless Datasets, and the Mining of the Future • Katheryn M. Detwiler 296 22 Reconstellating Astroenvironmentalism: Borders, Parks, and Other Cosmic Imaginaries • Alessandra Marino 314 23 Divergent Extraterrestrial Worlds: Navigating Cosmo-Practices on Two Mountaintops in Thailand • Lauren Reid 328 Part IV: Objects, Infrastructures, Networks, and Systems 342 24 A Glitch in Space • Juan Francisco Salazar 344 25 Preparing for the “Internet Apocalypse”: Data Centres and the Space Weather Threat • A. R. E. Taylor 346 26 Space Infrastructures and Networks of Control and Care • Katarina Damjanov 361 27 Mexico Dreams of Satellites • Anne W. Johnson 372 28 Space Codes: The Astronaut and the Architect • Fred Scharmen 384 Part V: Cultures in Orbit/Life in Space 396 29 Cosmic Waters • Julie Patarin-Jossec 398 30 Unearthing Biosphere 2, Biosphere 2 as Un·Earthing • Ralo Mayer 404 31 Living and Working in “The Great Outdoors”: Astronautics as Everyday Work in NASA’s Skylab Programme • Phillip Brooker and Wes Sharrock 421 32 Adapting to Space: The International Space Station Archaeological Project • Justin St. P. Walsh 433 33 An Ethnography of an Extraterrestrial Society: The International Space Station • David Jeevendrampillai, Victor Buchli, Aaron Parkhurst, Adryon Kozel, Giles Bunch, Jenia Gorbanenko and Makar Tereshin 446 34 Plant Biologists and the International Space Station: Institutionalising a Scientific Community • Paola Castaño 460 35 Whiteboards, Dancing, Origami, Debate: The Importance of Practical Wisdom for Astrophysicists and Instrument Scientists • Fionagh Thomson 474 36 Understanding the Question of Whether to Message Extraterrestrial Intelligence • Chelsea Haramia 487 37 Astrobiology and the Immanence of Life amidst Uncertainty • Dana Burton 501 38 A Post-Geocentric Gravitography of Human Culture • Alice Gorman 513 Index 526 "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