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Call for Papers: Anthropology of Outer Space: Familiar Scales, Strange Sites
http://religionandtechnology.com/aaa2015/
Call for Papers
ANTHROPOLOGY of OUTER SPACE: Familiar Scales, Strange Sites
AAA 2015 – Denver, Colorado, USA
Topic: Current interdisciplinary research in the anthropology of outer space.
Discussant: Lisa R. Messeri, PhD (Assistant Professor, University of Virginia)
Organizers:
Kira Turner, PhD candidate (York University)
Michael P. Oman-Reagan, PhD candidate (Memorial University)
Conference: 114th American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting (November 18-22, 2015 )
This panel aims to investigate the meanings, limits, and possibilities of expanding our anthropological fieldwork into space. At stake is an understanding of how human activity in space increasingly shapes possible human futures both on and off planet Earth. We ask: What are the constraints and potentialities of interrogating outer space in this emerging era of science, imagination, exploration, and settlement?
Planetary scientists, astronauts, and others working within the contested terrains of space science, exploration, settlement, and resource extraction are constructing diverse, sometimes conflicting, visions for human futures in space. This panel builds on anthropology’s attunement to multiple scales of inquiry to investigate the complex dimensions of our emerging field sites in both space and here on Earth. Narratives of space dominance, alongside venture capitalism and the space industry, explicitly aim for the privatization and commodification of other worlds and their resources. However, today’s globalizing space exploration increasingly defies familiar Cold War narratives as India, Nigeria, Indonesia, and others join the list of space faring nations. At the boundaries where our familiar everyday lives on Earth meet figurations of the alien and otherworldly in outer space, we find productive areas of inquiry at the intersections of space sciences, political economy, technosocialities, and imaginaries.
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We are interested in work examining these topics through social, environmental, historical, ontological, material, performative and other approaches, such as:
- Space histories, scientific future imaginaries
- Embodied and anthropomorphized robotic exploration rovers
- Outer space infrastructures, analogues and extreme environments
- Space tourism, interstellar travel, multi-generational world ships
- Satellites, environment, climate change, space medicine
- Emergent methods and theories of what we could call astro-/exo-/xeno-anthropology
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Call for Papers
ANTHROPOLOGY of OUTER SPACE: Familiar Scales, Strange Sites
AAA 2015 – Denver, Colorado, USA
Topic: Current interdisciplinary research in the anthropology of outer space.
Discussant: Lisa R. Messeri, PhD (Assistant Professor, University of Virginia)
Organizers:
Kira Turner, PhD candidate (York University)
Michael P. Oman-Reagan, PhD candidate (Memorial University)
Conference: 114th American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting (November 18-22, 2015 )
This panel aims to investigate the meanings, limits, and possibilities of expanding our anthropological fieldwork into space. At stake is an understanding of how human activity in space increasingly shapes possible human futures both on and off planet Earth. We ask: What are the constraints and potentialities of interrogating outer space in this emerging era of science, imagination, exploration, and settlement?
Planetary scientists, astronauts, and others working within the contested terrains of space science, exploration, settlement, and resource extraction are constructing diverse, sometimes conflicting, visions for human futures in space. This panel builds on anthropology’s attunement to multiple scales of inquiry to investigate the complex dimensions of our emerging field sites in both space and here on Earth. Narratives of space dominance, alongside venture capitalism and the space industry, explicitly aim for the privatization and commodification of other worlds and their resources. However, today’s globalizing space exploration increasingly defies familiar Cold War narratives as India, Nigeria, Indonesia, and others join the list of space faring nations. At the boundaries where our familiar everyday lives on Earth meet figurations of the alien and otherworldly in outer space, we find productive areas of inquiry at the intersections of space sciences, political economy, technosocialities, and imaginaries.
<snip>
We are interested in work examining these topics through social, environmental, historical, ontological, material, performative and other approaches, such as:
- Space histories, scientific future imaginaries
- Embodied and anthropomorphized robotic exploration rovers
- Outer space infrastructures, analogues and extreme environments
- Space tourism, interstellar travel, multi-generational world ships
- Satellites, environment, climate change, space medicine
- Emergent methods and theories of what we could call astro-/exo-/xeno-anthropology
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