The Routledge Handbook of Social Studies of Outer Space

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.

1. Social Studies of Outer Space: Pluriversal Articulations  Juan Francisco Salazar and Alice Gorman  Part 1: Fields  2. Trilogie Terrestre  Frédérique Aït-Touati and Bruno Latour  3. Refielding in More-Than-Terran Spaces  Valerie A. Olson  4. Space and Time Through Material Culture: An Account of Space Archaeology  Alice Gorman 5. Anthropology and Contemporary Space Exploration, with a Note on Hopi Ladders  Istvan Praet 6. Planetary Ethnography in a "SpaceX Village": History, Borders, and the Work of "Beyond"  Anna Szolucha 7. The Spaces of Outer Space  Oliver Dunnett 8. Sociological Approaches to Outer Space  Paola Castaño and Álvaro Santana-Acuña 9. Space Ethics  Tony Milligan and James S. J. Schwartz 10. Other Worlds, Other Views: Contemporary Artists and Space Exploration  Nicola Triscott Part 2: Intersections and Interventions  11. As Above, So Below: Space and Race in the Space Race  Rasheedah Phillips 12. A Chronopolitics of Outer Space: A Poetics of Tomorrowing  Juan Francisco Salazar  13. Feminist Approaches to Outer Space: Engagements with Technology, Labour, and Environment  Réka Patrícia Gál and Eleanor S. Armstrong  14. The Iconography of the Astronaut as a Critical Enquiry of Space Law  Saskia Vermeylen  15. Diversity in Space  Evie Kendal  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 Part 3: Colonial Histories and Decolonial Futures  17. Celestial Relations with and as Mil?iyawuy, the Milky Way, the River of Stars  Bawaka Country, including Dr L. Burarrwanga, Ritjilili Ganambarr, Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr-Stubbs, et al.  18. Coloniality and the Cosmos  Natalie B. Treviño  19. Safeguarding Indigenous Sky Rights from Colonial Exploitation  Karlie Noon, Krystal De Napoli, Peter Swanton, et al.  20. Anishinaabeg in Space  Deondre Smiles  21. Earthless Astronomy, Landless Datasets, and the Mining of the Future  Katheryn M. Detwiler  22. Reconstellating Astroenvironmentalism: Borders, Parks, and Other Cosmic Imaginaries  Alessandra Marino  23. Divergent Extraterrestrial Worlds: Navigating Cosmo-practices on Two Mountaintops in Thailand  Lauren Reid Part 4: Objects, Infrastructures, Networks, and Systems  24. Glitch in Space  Juan Francisco Salazar  25. Preparing for the "Internet Apocalypse": Data Centres and the Space Weather Threat A. R. E. Taylor    26. Space Infrastructures and Networks of Control and Care  Katarina Damjanov  27. Mexico Dreams of Satellites  Anne W. Johnson  28. Space Codes: The Astronaut and the Architect  Fred Scharmen Part 5: Cultures in Orbit/Life in Space  29. Cosmic Waters  Julie Patarin-Jossec 30. Unearthing Biosphere 2, Biosphere 2 as Un·Earthing  Ralo Mayer 31. Living and Working in "The Great Outdoors": Astronautics as Everyday Work in NASA’s Skylab Programme Phillip Brooker and Wes Sharrock  32. Adapting to Space: The International Space Station Archaeological Project  Justin St. P. Walsh 33. An Ethnography of an Extra-terrestrial Society: The International Space Station  David Jeevendrampillai, Victor Buchli, Aaron Parkhurst, et al.  34. Plant Biologists and the International Space Station: Institutionalising a Scientific Community  Paola Castaño 35. Whiteboards, Dancing, Origami, Debate: The Importance of Practical Wisdom for Astrophysicists and Instrument Scientists  Fionagh Thomson 36. Understanding the Question of Whether to Message Extraterrestrial Intelligence  Chelsea Haramia 37. Astrobiology and the Immanence of Life amidst Uncertainty  Dana Burton  38. A Post-Geocentric Gravitography of Human Culture Alice Gorman

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.