Rockets roar into space--bearing roughly half the world's
commercial satellites--from the same South American coastal
rainforest where convicts once did time on infamous Devil's Island.
What makes "Space in the Tropics" enthralling is anthropologist
Peter Redfield's ability to draw from these two disparate European
projects in French Guiana a gleaming web of ideas about the
intersections of nature and culture. In comparing the
Franco-European Ariane rocket program with the earlier penal
experiment, Redfield connects the myth of Robinson Crusoe,
nineteenth-century prison reform, the Dreyfus Affair, tropical
medicine, postwar exploration of outer space, satellite technology,
development, and ecotourism with a focus on place, and the
incorporation of this particular place into greater extended
systems. Examining the wider context of the Ariane program, he
argues that technology and nature must be understood within a
greater ecology of displacement and makes a case for the importance
of margins in understanding the trajectories of modern life.
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