ISBN: 9780822948438 - cosmic fragments: dislocation and discontent in the global space age: 15 (intersections) (26 resultados)

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Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. Insightful Essays That Deepen the Understanding of the Relationship Between Space, Capitalism, and the Environment. Cosmic Fragments brings together the most recent academic scholarship on the history of space exploration with a particular focus on the connections between spaceflight activities, capitalism, and the environment. The sixteen essays collected here highlight in different ways the internal friction, between the utopian, upward moving, and positivist imperative of the cosmic imaginary, and the frisson manifested in more Earthly dislocations, displacements, and destruction caused by the material reality of space exploration. Drawing insight from postcolonial studies, environmental studies, feminist theory, anthropology, geography, film studies, and STS more broadly, these essays are collectively organized around four broad themes: landscape, empire, waste, and decline. AUTHOR: Asif A. Siddiqi is a professor of history at Fordham University in New York who teaches and writes on the history of science and technology. His latest work has gravitated toward global history with an interest in histories of techno scientific infrastructures in the postcolonial world. He has held visiting positions at Harvard, MIT, the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, Caltech, and Princeton. Siddiqi is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and he is the co-editor of the 'Studies in the History of Science and Technology' series at Johns Hopkins University Press. Looking beyond the well-trodden, celebratory narratives of space exploration and the powerful nostalgia of lunar landings, Cosmic Fragments focuses instead on the moral ambiguities of spaceflight. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Looking beyond the well-trodden, celebratory narratives of space exploration and the powerful nostalgia of lunar landings, Cosmic Fragments focuses instead on the moral ambiguities of spaceflight. Beyond the fetishization of machines, men, and manifest destiny and the Cold War tensions of the space race lies a history rife with violence, racial inequity, colonial ambitions, and catastrophe. This volume yields new insights on the crucial role of environmental damage, Indigenous dispossession, population displacements, infrastructural entanglements, and narratives of decline in space exploration situated within larger questions in the history of science, technology, and the environment. Each chapter explores histories of space travel across nations and regions to better understand the destructive power of infrastructure, waste, and exploitative legal regimes at the height of the space age. Drawing from postcolonial science studies, science and technology studies, and anthropology, contributors suggest that phenomena designed to disenfranchise and dislocate, such as the displacement of Indigenous peoples, were deeply imbedded in the coloniality of space travel. By confronting and challenging problematic early accounts rooted in the cultural mores of settler colonialism, Cosmic Fragments offers a fundamental repositioning of the history of spaceflight.…

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Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. Insightful Essays That Deepen the Understanding of the Relationship Between Space, Capitalism, and the Environment. Cosmic Fragments brings together the most recent academic scholarship on the history of space exploration with a particular focus on the connections between spaceflight activities, capitalism, and the environment. The sixteen essays collected here highlight in different ways the internal friction, between the utopian, upward moving, and positivist imperative of the cosmic imaginary, and the frisson manifested in more Earthly dislocations, displacements, and destruction caused by the material reality of space exploration. Drawing insight from postcolonial studies, environmental studies, feminist theory, anthropology, geography, film studies, and STS more broadly, these essays are collectively organized around four broad themes: landscape, empire, waste, and decline. AUTHOR: Asif A. Siddiqi is a professor of history at Fordham University in New York who teaches and writes on the history of science and technology. His latest work has gravitated toward global history with an interest in histories of techno scientific infrastructures in the postcolonial world. He has held visiting positions at Harvard, MIT, the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, Caltech, and Princeton. Siddiqi is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and he is the co-editor of the 'Studies in the History of Science and Technology' series at Johns Hopkins University Press. Looking beyond the well-trodden, celebratory narratives of space exploration and the powerful nostalgia of lunar landings, Cosmic Fragments focuses instead on the moral ambiguities of spaceflight. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…