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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