Otherwhere Ethnography
An Introduction to Outer Space Studies
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 23 October 2025
- ISBN 9780197790854
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages240 pages
- Size 239x173x22 mm
- Weight 454 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 19 figures 700
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Short description:
This book offers an introduction to the field of outer space studies by means of a selection of "otherwhere ethnographies," fine-grained accounts of how space exploration is being reconfigured in an age where major nation-states are no longer its only prime movers. A collective of social scientists and humanities scholars provide detailed accounts of how space research and space enterprises are being rethought in an age where extraterrestrial exploration is no longer the monopoly of a handful of superpowers.
MoreLong description:
What happens when contemporary space exploration outgrows Space Age modernity? In this volume, a collective of social scientists and humanities scholars provides an introduction to the emerging field of outer space studies. This is done by means of "otherwhere ethnography," richly detailed accounts of how space research and space enterprises are being rethought in an age where extraterrestrial exploration is no longer the monopoly of a handful of superpowers. While many off-Earth endeavours remain embedded within characteristically modern forms of thought--scientism, productivism, extractivism, (neo-)colonialism--there is also an emerging trend to move away from such ingrained conceptual frameworks. If one looks beyond the much-hyped projects of billionaire space gurus and their coterie of rocket-obsessed followers, one notices that Space Age modernity can also be thought otherwise, and that the very idea of "exploration" has already mutated into something else. Outer space studies can be envisaged as the antenna that seeks to capture this momentous, ongoing mutation.
MoreTable of Contents:
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Introduction: Otherwhere Ethnography, a Means to Reimagine Contemporary Space Exploration
Part I Provincializing the Space Age: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives on the Exploration of Outer Space
Spaced Out: Bringing Outer Spaces into Anthropological Conversations
Blue Vegetation on the Red Planet: Soviet Astrobotany and Earthly Analogs for Life on Mars
Styles of Contemporary Space Exploration: Columbian and Vespuccian Modes of Researching Alien Worlds
Provincializing Earth: Grounding and Writing Acknowledgments from Otherwheres in the Cosmos
Knowledge Frontiers: Shaping African Futures Through the Square Kilometre Array
Part II Otherwhere Ethnographies: Analogs, Instruments, Artifacts, Viruses, and Vegetables
Between a Rock and a Hard Space: On Instrument Time and Communication in BASALT
The Restaurant at the End of the World
"Welcome to Planet Mars": Analog-Making in Astrobiology and Planetary Sciences
Artifacts of Attunement
Space Virus 2020
Notes
References
Index
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Introduction: Otherwhere Ethnography, a Means to Reimagine Contemporary Space Exploration
Part I Provincializing the Space Age: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives on the Exploration of Outer Space
Spaced Out: Bringing Outer Spaces into Anthropological Conversations
Blue Vegetation on the Red Planet: Soviet Astrobotany and Earthly Analogs for Life on Mars
Styles of Contemporary Space Exploration: Columbian and Vespuccian Modes of Researching Alien Worlds
Provincializing Earth: Grounding and Writing Acknowledgments from Otherwheres in the Cosmos
Knowledge Frontiers: Shaping African Futures Through the Square Kilometre Array
Part II Otherwhere Ethnographies: Analogs, Instruments, Artifacts, Viruses, and Vegetables
Between a Rock and a Hard Space: On Instrument Time and Communication in BASALT
The Restaurant at the End of the World
"Welcome to Planet Mars": Analog-Making in Astrobiology and Planetary Sciences
Artifacts of Attunement
Space Virus 2020
Notes
References
Index
