J.S. Ormrod, P. Dickens (Eds.)
The Palgrave Handbook of Society, Culture and Outer Space
1st ed. 2016, XIII, 480 p.
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▶ Will be a field defining text – no current book explores the sociology
of the universe in such depth
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▶ Draws together the key thinkers in the field from across Europe,
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▶ Highly Interdisciplinary – spans Sociology, Anthropology,
Psychology, Geography, Politics, History, Science and Technology
Studies and Culture and Media Studies
▶ Explores issues such as space tourism, the rise of TV scientists,
satellite surveillance, the archaeology and geography of outer space,
the Higgs Boson, space law, space and art and psychoanalysis and
the universe
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Societies have always been formed in a relationship with the rest of the universe. With
rapid developments in satellite communications and imaging, space exploration and
tourism, military space technology, and cosmology itself, relationships with outer space
are changing. These changes have inspired a wave of critical academic work in recent
years, re-examining the history, present and future of outer space and the place of
humans within it.
This handbook provides an in-depth exploration of major themes relating to society,
culture and the universe and will inspire and cultivate debate in this exciting and
burgeoning area of study for future researchers and theorists. Bringing together
scholarship from a range of disciplines including geography, economics, history, political
science, sociology, philosophy, science and technology studies, law, cultural astronomy,
anthropology, media studies, literature, psychosocial studies and art, it closely examines
how outer space is socially produced, experienced, perceived and imagined, and the
significance of this for terrestrial social life.
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