How Outer Space Made America

Geography, Organization and the Cosmic Sublime
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-138-54668-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

In this innovatory book Daniel Sage analyses how and why American space exploration reproduced and transformed American cultural and political imaginations by appealing to, and to an extent organizing, the transcendence of spatial and temporal frontiers. In so doing, he traces the development of a seductive, and powerful, yet complex and unstable American geographical imagination: the ’transcendental state’. Historical and indeed contemporary space exploration is, despite some recent notable exceptions, worthy of more attention across the social sciences and humanities. While largely engaging with the historical development of space exploration, it shows how contemporary cultural and social, and indeed geographical, research themes, including national identity, critical geopolitics, gender, technocracy, trauma and memory, can be informed by the study of space exploration.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sage, Daniel D.

Sage, Daniel

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Geopolitik
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents: Introducing a geography of outer space; America as transcendental; Framing a world beyond; Placing the moon; Technocracy in the space age; Whose body for whose future?; Was revolution ever in the air?; Memorializing the future; Traumatizing spaceflight; Critical cosmopolitics; References; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel Sage is Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour in the School of Business and Economics at Loughborough University, UK.