Securing outer space
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Securing outer space
（Routledge critical security studies）
Routledge, 2009
- : hbk
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Bibliography: p. [221]-249
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1. Unbundling Sovereignty, Territory and the State in Outer Space: Two Approaches 2. Space Weapons - Dream, Nightmare or Reality? 3. Critical Astropolitics: The Geopolitics of Space Control and the Transformation of State Sovereignty 4. The Spaces between Us: The Gendered Politics of Outer Space 5. The Lost Dimension: A Spatial Reading of US Weaponisation of Space 6. Haunted Dreams: Critical Theory, Technology and the Militarization of Space 7. The (power) Politics of Space: The US Astropolitical Discourse on Global Dominance in the War on Terror 8. Between Blind Faith and Deep Scepticism: The 'Weaponisation of Space' and the Canadian Debate on Ballistic Missile Defence 9. The Mice that Soar: Smaller States Perspectives on Space Weaponisation 10. Profaning the Path to the Sacred: The Militarisation of the European Space Programme 11. Neo-Realism and the Galileo and GPS Negotiations 12. Pol Sci-Fi 101: Lessons from Science Fiction Television for Global and Outer Space Politics
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