Undersea Geopolitics

Sealab, Science, and the Cold War

Rachael Squire (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

180 Seiten

2021
Rowman & Littlefield International (Verlag)
978-1-78660-730-0 (ISBN)

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This book furthers academic scholarship in cutting-edge areas of geographical and geopolitical writing by drawing on a series of little-studied undersea living projects conducted by the US Navy during the Cold War (Project Genesis, Sealab I, II and III). Supported by an engaging and novel empirical setting, the central themes of the book revolve around the practice and construct of ‘territory’, ‘terrain’, the ‘elemental’ and the interrelationships between these material phenomenon and both human and non-human bodies. Furthermore, the book will point to future research trajectories in the form of ‘extreme geographies’ to better understand living practices in a world that is increasingly submerged and extreme.

Rachael Squire is a political geographer and lecturer in human geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her research engages with the concepts of territory, embodiment, and ‘volume’ with a particular focus on the space of the sea.

Introduction: Towards the ‘deep dark sea’
‘Taking chances for all of mankind’: Taming the Underwater Frontier
Domesticating and dishwashing: Making ‘home on the seafloor
‘A breed apart’: Taking the measure of man
‘Think Helium’: Submarine pressures and elemental entanglements
Companions, zappers, and invaders: The animals of Sealab
From Sealab to Skylab: Inhabiting extremes

8. Conclusions

Erscheinungsdatum	17.08.2020
Reihe/Serie	Geopolitical Bodies, Material Worlds
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 229 mm
Gewicht	467 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
ISBN-10	1-78660-730-1 / 1786607301
ISBN-13	978-1-78660-730-0 / 9781786607300
Zustand	Neuware