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This book offers readers a critical analysis of space expansionism and today's race to space that has come to define our contemporary era. Taking a retrospective and prospective approach, the book delves into the choices being made and the justifications being offered by the hegemonic discourse of humans as extraplanetary beings.
List of contents
1. Introduction, 2. Space Expansionism, 3. Manufacturing of Space Nostalgia, 4.Planetary Politics and Space Weaponization, 5. Space Junk, 6. Space Mining, 7. Space Tourism, 8. Space Colonization or Space Colonialization?, 9. The Marketing and Selling of a Utopic Future for All, 10. Concluding Thoughts.
About the author
Dawn L. Rothe is a professor of criminology in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida Atlantic University. Her research interests and publications have a broad focus on issues of power, inequality, capitalism/neoliberalism, violence, and harms, particularly those related to crimes of the powerful.
Victoria E. Collins is a professor and Chair of Justice Studies at Eastern Kentucky University. Her interests and publications focus on crimes of the powerful, state crime, white collar and corporate crime, neoliberalism, and victimology, all areas that inform the study of space expansionism.
Summary
This book offers readers a critical analysis of space expansionism and today’s race to space that has come to define our contemporary era. Taking a retrospective and prospective approach, the book delves into the choices being made and the justifications being offered by the hegemonic discourse of humans as extraplanetary beings.
