Power in outer space

This project began as a symposium funded by the University, and which formed part of International Keep Space for Peace. It brought together researchers across a number of disciplines interested in thinking critically about the ways in which outer space was being used to sustain, and challenge, global power relations. It has since grown into an international collaboration of scholars working across the social sciences and humanities.

Project aims

The project aims to bring together academics and practitioners working across sociology, political science, law, geography, history, science and technology studies, philosophy, literature, cultural studies, art, anthropology, and cultural astronomy. With research on outer space burgeoning in all of these disciplines, this project forms part of attempt to foster dialogue, and to conceptualise the relationship between how outer space is experienced, perceived and imagined through critical lenses.

Project findings and impact

The project is currently ongoing

Research team

Dr James Ormrod

Output

Dickens, P. & Ormrod, J. S. (eds) (forthcoming 2015) The Palgrave Handbook of Society and Outer Space, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Partners

Contributors

Jason Beery, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Peter Dickens, University of Cambridge, UK

Jocelyn Wills, City University of New York, USA

Nayef Al-Rodhan, Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Switzerland

Chris Pesterfield, unattached

Pete Mason, Socialist Party, UK

Felicity Mellor, Imperial College London, UK

Mark Johnson, University of York, UK

Christy Collis, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Lionel Sims, UEL, UK

Allen Abramson & Martin Holbraad, UCL, UK

Sean Redmond, Deakin University, Australia

Dewitt Douglas Kilgore, Indiana University, USA

Nicola Triscott, Arts Catalyst, UK