Securing outer space / edited by Natalie Bormann and Michael Sheehan.
2009
338.47 B726
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338.47 B726
Title
Securing outer space / edited by Natalie Bormann and Michael Sheehan.
Language
English
Author
Bormann, Natalie
Added Author
Sheehan, Michael
Imprint
London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.
Description
viii, 260 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Series
Routledge critical security studies series
Summary
[Publisher description] 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.nbsp;
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-249) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Unbundling sovereignty, territory and the state in outer space : two approaches / Jill Stuart
Space weapons : dream, nightmare or reality? / Dave Webb
Critical astropolitics : the geopolitics of space control and the transformation of state sovereignty / Jonathan Havercroft and Raymond Duvall
The spaces between us : the gendered politics of outer space / Penny Griffin
The lost dimension? : a spatial reading of US weaponisation of space / Natalie Bormann
Haunted dreams : critical theory, technology and the militarization of space / Columba Peoples
The (power) politics of space : the US astropolitical discourse on global dominance in the War on Terror / David Grondin
Between blind faith and deep skepticism : the "weaponization of space" and the Canadian debate on ballistic missile defense / Miguel de Larrinaga
The mice that soar : smaller states' perspectives on space weaponization / Wade L. Huntley
Profaning the path to the sacred : the militarisation of the European space programme / Michael Sheehan
Neo-realism and the Galileo and GPS negotiations / Iain Ross Ballantyne Bolton
Poli sci-fi 101 : lessons from science fiction television for global and outer space politics / Mark D. Hamilton.
Space weapons : dream, nightmare or reality? / Dave Webb
Critical astropolitics : the geopolitics of space control and the transformation of state sovereignty / Jonathan Havercroft and Raymond Duvall
The spaces between us : the gendered politics of outer space / Penny Griffin
The lost dimension? : a spatial reading of US weaponisation of space / Natalie Bormann
Haunted dreams : critical theory, technology and the militarization of space / Columba Peoples
The (power) politics of space : the US astropolitical discourse on global dominance in the War on Terror / David Grondin
Between blind faith and deep skepticism : the "weaponization of space" and the Canadian debate on ballistic missile defense / Miguel de Larrinaga
The mice that soar : smaller states' perspectives on space weaponization / Wade L. Huntley
Profaning the path to the sacred : the militarisation of the European space programme / Michael Sheehan
Neo-realism and the Galileo and GPS negotiations / Iain Ross Ballantyne Bolton
Poli sci-fi 101 : lessons from science fiction television for global and outer space politics / Mark D. Hamilton.
ISBN
0415460565 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780415460569 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780415460569 (cloth : alk. paper)
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