How Outer Space Made America: Geography, Organization and the Cosmic Sublime

Author:   Daniel Sage
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Edition:   New edition
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9781472423665


Pages:   192
Publication Date:   03 November 2014
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Daniel Sage
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Weight:   0.476kg
ISBN:  

9781472423665


ISBN 10:   1472423666
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   03 November 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Contents: Introducing a geography of outer space; America as transcendental; Framing a world beyond; Placing the moon; Technocracy in the space age; Whose body for whose future?; Was revolution ever in the air?; Memorializing the future; Traumatizing spaceflight; Critical cosmopolitics; References; Index.

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'It has long seemed to me that social scientists need to raise their eyes from the ground. In this splendid book, Dan Sage shows us why it is so important to look elsewhere for explanations of the present. Looking at outer space allows us to see our own organizations and politics more clearly, and also opens the possibility of enquiries into what we might become.'Martin Parker, University of Leicester, UK'Daniel Sage's How Outer Space made America is a theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich account of how America and Americans took to Space. Eschewing accounts that over-determine the militaristic, the nationalistic and the imperialistic, emphasis is given to the manner in which art, religion, popular culture, museums, political speeches and journalism helped to complicate this engagement with the vertical and cosmic frontiers of the United States. A really good read and a book that is as much a tale about outer space as it is a provocation to those interested in theorising geo-power, affect, and the transcendental state.'Klaus Dodds, Royal Holloway University of London, UK


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Daniel Sage is Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour in the School of Business and Economics at Loughborough University, UK.

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