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9780415622325: Securing Outer Space: International Relations Theory and the Politics of Space (Routledge Critical Security Studies)
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ISBN 10: 0415622328 ISBN 13: 9780415622325
Editorial: Routledge, 2012

Sinopsis

The challenges that space poses for political theory are profound. Yet until now, the exploration and utilization of space has generally reflected - but not challenged - the political patterns and impulses which characterized twentieth-century politics and International Relations. This edited volume analyses a number of controversial policies, and contentious strategies which have promoted space activities under the rubric of exploration and innovation, militarization and weaponization, colonization and commercialization. It places these policies and strategies in broader theoretical perspective in two key ways. Firstly, it engages in a reading of the discourses of space activities: exposing their meaning-producing practices; uncovering the narratives which convey certain space strategies as desirable, inevitable and seamless. Secondly, the essays suggest ways of understanding, and critically engaging with, the effects of particular space policies.

The essays here seek to ’bring back space’ into the realm of International Relations discourse, from which it has been largely removed, marginalized and silenced. The various chapters do this by highlighting how activities in outer space are always connected to earth-bound practices and performances of the every day. Securing Outer Space will be of great interest to students of space power, critical security studies and IR theory.

 

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Natalie Bormann teaches at the Department of Politics at Northeastern University, Boston, USA. Previously she held a position at the Watson Insititute for International Studies, Brown University. She is the author of National Missile Defence and the Politics of US Identity: A Poststructuralist Critique.

Michael Sheehan is Professor of International Relations at the University of Wales, Swansea. His publications include The International Politics of Space; International Security: An Analytical Survey; National and International Security; Balance of Power: History and Theory; The Arms Race; and Arms Control: Theory and Practice.

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Editorial
Routledge
Año de publicación
2012
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0415622328
ISBN 13 
9780415622325
Encuadernación
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
272
Editor
Bormann Natalie, Sheehan Michael
Contacto del fabricante
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Persona responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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9780415460569: Securing Outer Space: International Relations Theory and the Politics of Space (Routledge Critical Security Studies)

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