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.
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