Exploring Ethnography of Outer Space

Methods and Perspectives

Jenia Gorbanenko, David (Jeeva) Jeevendrampillai, Adryon Kozel (Herausgeber)

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248 Seiten

2025
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-57128-7 (ISBN)

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This book explores new methods and perspectives in the anthropology of outer space. For the past ten years, scholarship of outer space has grown significantly in the social sciences. Now, an international community of anthropologists is starting to produce significant contributions to this work. This is pushing the conversations around the future of humanity, technology, and outer space beyond the realm of speculative theory into concrete challenges to established norms within anthropology. Each chapter in this volume introduces a unique take on what constitutes an ethnographic field in anthropology. They signal a reimagination of the central concept for the discipline and offer a timely meditation on the shift in anthropology’s understanding of fieldwork from its inception until now. The volume consists of 11 ethnographic chapters, plus an introduction by the editors, and two invited responses. Each of the main body chapters presents a distinct approach to situating outer space empirically on Earth. By bringing together emerging and established scholars, this book ultimately posits that an anthropological approach to outer space requires creative approaches to ethnography that are no longer exclusively premised on a co-presence with the people under study. A primer of innovative ethnographies and an ideal companion to courses on methods, this volume will provide students with a body of accessible, contemporary work on futurisms and outer space. In addition, this book will serve as a snapshot of a moment in ethnographically innovative anthropology that will be relevant to a wider academic audience through its exegesis of new methods for the study of distributed communities.

Jenia Gorbanenko is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at University College London specialising in the anthropology of religion in outer space. Dr. David (Jeeva) Jeevendrampillai is a Lecturer at The University of Manchester. He researches planetary belonging and community building in outer space. Adryon Kozel is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at University College London. They research how space enthusiasts construct potential futures in space, and narratives of what it means for humans to go to space. All Editors are members of the ERC Advanced Grant ETHNO-ISS, an anthropological study of the International Space Station based at University College London.

1. Introduction, 2. Transcendence, bodies, and estranged labour in outer space: The astronaut’s contribution to a general theory of hierarchy, 3. Anthropologists in outer space: Science fiction, infrastructure, comparison, 4. Imaginaries of Outer Space from Africa. Astronomy Infrastructure in South Africa and Madagascar, 5. Museums, Meteorites, and Portals: tracing the imperial logics of trans-planetary resource extractivism, 6. Of Stars and Wheat: Making Sense of the Cosmos in a Regional Museum of Cosmonautics, 7. From Mexico to the Moon: (Outer)Spatializing Ethnography, 8. Are we still anthropologists if we go to space using only our imaginations?, 9. Terraforming a field site: Reflections on crafting knowledge on Mars, 10. Composing the cosmos: Tuning into multiplicities with Thai Buddhist concepts, 11. Divining South Korea’s Space Age through Korean Shamanism and Astrology (Myŏngni), 12. Space intentionally left blank, 13. Methodological Sensibilities in Outer Spaces, 14. …a response

Erscheint lt. Verlag	13.3.2025
Reihe/Serie	Anthropology of Now
Zusatzinfo	2 Tables, black and white; 22 Halftones, black and white; 22 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Technik ► Luft- / Raumfahrttechnik
ISBN-10	1-032-57128-4 / 1032571284
ISBN-13	978-1-032-57128-7 / 9781032571287
Zustand	Neuware