Space Feminisms: People, Planets, Power (Biotechne: Interthinking Art, Science and Design)

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Synopsis
Employing a global approach to feminist theory, this book examines how scientific, popular, scholarly, and artistic imaginations of space have, since the 1950s, reflected and embedded Earthly hopes, anxieties, and futures.Rather than simply a platform for imagining the future, it cultivates radical and alternative modes of inquiry around space through seeing space as a material reality that reflexively encodes humans' self-perceptions of their planet and beyond. Bringing together essayistic reflections, artworks, and interviews with space scientists, engineers, and astronauts past and present in one volume, Space Feminisms inspects the transformation of terrestrially held notions of gender, race, class, and ableism as they migrate to the extraterrestrial, whilst drawing new connections between feminist thought and extraterrestrial power structures.Space Feminisms makes a radical enquiry into how earthly power structures are already expanding into our skies, facilitating a collaborative and interdisciplinary platform for scholars, artists, and designers to imagine radical constructions of human futures beyond Earth. At the intersection of scientific, cultural, social, and artistic speculations, the book gathers leading scholars, scientists, artists, and designers to develop innovative tactics and disruptive participations to create generative, alternative, and radical futures of and in space.
Copyright:
2024

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Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9781350346345
Related ISBNs:
9781350346321
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
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Copyrighted By:
Marie-Pier Boucher, Claire Webb, Annick Bureaud, and Nahum Romero Zamora
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Social Studies
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Marie-Pier Boucher
Edited by:
Claire Webb
Edited by:
Annick Bureaud
Edited by:
Nahum

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