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The Routledge Handbook of Social Studies of Outer Space offers a
state-of-the-art overview of contemporary social and cultural
research on outer space. With over thirty contributions by leading
researchers across a variety of disciplines, it explores the
question of why and how to study outer space and provides scholars,
practitioners and upper-level students with novel perspectives and
critical interventions on a wide range of debates. Topics covered
include: Critical social studies of space Space humanities Space
imaginaries Space heritage Space technologies, systems, and
infrastructures Colonialism and decolonisation Race and space
Environmental justice and space activism Indigenous astronomical
systems of Knowledge Afrofuturism; Indigenous Futurisms
Contemporary space art Scientific communities The volume reflects
on the lineages of conceptualizations and studies of outer space
and poses key questions about the crafting of futures in relation
to space. In particular, the chapters address a range of themes,
such as the study of the human body and consciousness; the various
infrastructures, networks and systems that enable and sustain space
exploration; the fundamental question of life in outer space both
as it pertains to astrobiology, SETI, and the study of human health
in spaceflight. Ultimately, the handbook is a call to attend more
carefully to the ways in which we engage critically with outer
space, both empirically, affectively and theoretically, while
characterizing current research practices and outlining future
research agendas.
Media Cultures in Latin America updates and expands contemporary
global understandings of the region's media and cultural research.
Drawing on forty years of contributions made by Latin American
cultural studies to the global media research, the book connects
this history to newly developing work that has yet to be given deep
consideration in anglophone scholarship. The authors emphasise
themes that are key to media and cultural scholarship: distinctive
from other world regions, these intellectual debates have been
central to how media and communication is studied and produced in
Latin America. This approach provides students and scholars with a
better framework for engaging with Latin American research beyond
the specificities of just one place or one kind of cultural product
or technology. The book is an essential read for upper level
undergraduate and postgraduate students of media studies,
anthropology, cultural studies, communication studies, and Latin
American studies. It will also be of interest to students and
scholars learning about human rights, environmental, indigenous and
political activism.
Media Cultures in Latin America updates and expands contemporary
global understandings of the region's media and cultural research.
Drawing on forty years of contributions made by Latin American
cultural studies to the global media research, the book connects
this history to newly developing work that has yet to be given deep
consideration in anglophone scholarship. The authors emphasise
themes that are key to media and cultural scholarship: distinctive
from other world regions, these intellectual debates have been
central to how media and communication is studied and produced in
Latin America. This approach provides students and scholars with a
better framework for engaging with Latin American research beyond
the specificities of just one place or one kind of cultural product
or technology. The book is an essential read for upper level
undergraduate and postgraduate students of media studies,
anthropology, cultural studies, communication studies, and Latin
American studies. It will also be of interest to students and
scholars learning about human rights, environmental, indigenous and
political activism.
Anthropology has a critical, practical role to play in contemporary
debates about futures. This game-changing new book presents new
ways of conceptualising how to engage with a future-oriented
research agenda, demonstrating how anthropologists can approach
futures both theoretically and practically, and introducing a set
of innovative research methods to tackle this field of
research.Anthropology and Futures brings together a group of
leading scholars from across the world, including Sarah Pink, Rayna
Rapp, Faye Ginsburg and Paul Stoller. Firmly grounded in
ethnographic fieldwork experience, the book's fifteen chapters
traverse ethnographies with people living with HIV/AIDS in Uganda,
disability activists in the U.S., young Muslim women in Copenhagen,
refugees in Milan, future-makers in Barcelona, planning and land
futures in the UK, the design of workspaces in Melbourne, rewilding
in the French Pyrenees, and speculative ethnographies among
emerging communities in Antarctica. Taking a strong
interdisciplinary approach, the authors respond to growing interest
in the topic of futures in anthropology and beyond. This
ground-breaking text is a call for more engaged, interventional and
applied anthropologies. It is essential reading for students and
researchers in anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, design
and research methods.
Anthropology has a critical, practical role to play in contemporary
debates about futures. This game-changing new book presents new
ways of conceptualising how to engage with a future-oriented
research agenda, demonstrating how anthropologists can approach
futures both theoretically and practically, and introducing a set
of innovative research methods to tackle this field of
research.Anthropology and Futures brings together a group of
leading scholars from across the world, including Sarah Pink, Rayna
Rapp, Faye Ginsburg and Paul Stoller. Firmly grounded in
ethnographic fieldwork experience, the book's fifteen chapters
traverse ethnographies with people living with HIV/AIDS in Uganda,
disability activists in the U.S., young Muslim women in Copenhagen,
refugees in Milan, future-makers in Barcelona, planning and land
futures in the UK, the design of workspaces in Melbourne, rewilding
in the French Pyrenees, and speculative ethnographies among
emerging communities in Antarctica. Taking a strong
interdisciplinary approach, the authors respond to growing interest
in the topic of futures in anthropology and beyond. This
ground-breaking text is a call for more engaged, interventional and
applied anthropologies. It is essential reading for students and
researchers in anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, design
and research methods.
This book presents a novel and systematic social theory of soil,
and is representative of the rising interest in 'the material' in
social sciences. Bringing together new modes of 'critical
description' with speculative practices and methods of inquiry, it
contributes to the exploration of current transformations in
socioecologies, as well as in political and artistic practices, in
order to address global ecological change. The chapters in this
edited volume challenge scholars to attend more carefully to the
ways in which they think about soil, both materially and
theoretically. Contributors address a range of topics, including
new ways of thinking about the politics of caring for soils; the
ecological and symbiotic relations between soils; how the
productive capacities and contested governance of soils are
deployed as matters of political concern; and indigenous ways of
knowing and being with soil.
This book presents a novel and systematic social theory of soil,
and is representative of the rising interest in 'the material' in
social sciences. Bringing together new modes of 'critical
description' with speculative practices and methods of inquiry, it
contributes to the exploration of current transformations in
socioecologies, as well as in political and artistic practices, in
order to address global ecological change. The chapters in this
edited volume challenge scholars to attend more carefully to the
ways in which they think about soil, both materially and
theoretically. Contributors address a range of topics, including
new ways of thinking about the politics of caring for soils; the
ecological and symbiotic relations between soils; how the
productive capacities and contested governance of soils are
deployed as matters of political concern; and indigenous ways of
knowing and being with soil.
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