Securing Outer Space: International Relations Theory and the Politics of Space (Routledge Critical Security Studies)

By: Natalie Bormann and Michael Sheehan

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781134044832
Related ISBNs:: 9780203882023, 9780415460569, 9780415460569, 9780415622325, 9780415622325
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 03/27/20
Copyrighted By:: Natalie Bormann, Michael Sheehan
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Military, Nonfiction, Politics and Government
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Natalie Bormann
Edited by:: Michael Sheehan