Exploring ethnography of outer space methods and perspectives / edited by Jenia Gorbanenko, David (Jeeva) Jeevendrampillai, and Adryon Kozel.
| Other author | Gorbanenko, Jenia, 1996- |
| Other author | Jeevendrampillai, David. |
| Other author | Kozel, Adryon, 1992- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York, NY : Routledge, 2025. |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Series | Anthropology of now |
| Contents | Transcendence, bodies, and estranged labour in outer space : the astronaut's contribution to a general theory of hierarchy / Giles Bunch -- Anthropologists in outer space : science fiction, infrastructure, comparison / Chakad Ojani -- Imaginaries of outer space from Africa. Astronomy infrastructure in South Africa and Madagascar / Davide Chinigò and Hanna Nieber -- Museums, meteorites, and portals : tracing the imperial logics of trans-planetary resource extractivism / Alana Osbourne -- Of stars and wheat : making sense of the cosmos in a regional museum of cosmonautics / Makar Tereshin and Denis Sivkov -- From Mexico to the Moon : (outer)spatializing ethnography / Anne Johnson -- Are we still anthropologists if we go to space using only our imaginations? / Ceridwen Dovey and Rowena Potts -- Terraforming a field site : reflections on crafting knowledge on Mars / David (Jeeva) Jeevendrampillai and Sarah Fortais -- Composing the cosmos : tuning into multiplicities with Thai Buddhist concepts / Lauren Reid -- Divining South Korea's space age through Korean shamanism and astrology (Myŏngni) / Hae-Seo Kim -- Space intentionally left blank / Peter Timko and Karlijn Korpershoek -- Methodological sensibilities in outer spaces / Valerie Olson -- ...a response / Victor Buchli. |
| Abstract | "This book explores new methods and perspectives in the anthropology of outer space. For the past ten years, scholarship of outer space has grown significantly in the social sciences. Now, an international community of anthropologists is starting to produce significant contributions to this work. This is pushing the conversations around the future of humanity, technology, and outer space beyond the realm of speculative theory into concrete challenges to established norms within anthropology. Each chapter in this volume introduces a unique take on what constitutes an ethnographic field in anthropology. They signal a reimagination of the central concept for the discipline and offer a timely meditation on the shift in anthropology's understanding of fieldwork from its inception until now. The volume consists of 11 ethnographic chapters, plus an introduction by the editors, and two invited responses. Each of the main body chapters presents a distinct approach to situating outer space empirically on Earth. By bringing together emerging and established scholars, this book ultimately posits that an anthropological approach to outer space requires creative approaches to ethnography that are no longer exclusively premised on a co-presence with the people under study. A primer of innovative ethnographies and an ideal companion to courses on methods, this volume will provide students with a body of accessible, contemporary work on futurisms and outer space. In addition, this book will serve as a snapshot of a moment in ethnographically innovative anthropology that will be relevant to a wider academic audience through its exegesis of new methods for the study of distributed communities"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Terms of use | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Exploring ethnography of outer space New York, NY : Routledge, 2025 9781032571294 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2024040590 |
| ISBN | 9781040299500 (epub) |
| ISBN | 9781003437956 (ebook) |
| ISBN | (hardback) |
| ISBN | (paperback) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |