{"product_id":"into-the-extreme-valerie-olson-9781517902551","title":"Into the Extreme: U.S. Environmental Systems and Politics Beyond Earth","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first book-length, in-depth ethnography of U.S. human spaceflight\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e What if outer space is not outside the human environment but, rather, defines it? This is the unusual starting point of Valerie Olson's \u003ci\u003eInto the Extreme\u003c\/i\u003e, revealing how outer space contributes to making what counts as the scope and scale of today's natural and social environments. With unprecedented access to spaceflight worksites ranging from astronaut training programs to life science labs and architecture studios, Olson examines how U.S. experts work within the solar system as the container of life and as a vast site for new forms of technical and political environmental control. \u003cp\u003eOlson's book shifts our attention from space's political geography to its political ecology, showing how scientists, physicians, and engineers across North America collaborate to build the conceptual and nuts-and-bolts systems that connect Earth to a specifically ecosystemic cosmos. This cosmos is being redefined as a competitive space for potential economic resources, social relations, and political strategies. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShowing how contemporary U.S. environmental power is bound up with the production of national technical and scientific access to outer space, \u003ci\u003eInto the Extreme\u003c\/i\u003e brings important new insights to our understanding of modern environmental history and politics. At a time when the boundaries of global ecologies and economies extend far below and above Earth's surface, Olson's new analytic frameworks help us understand how varieties of outlying spaces are known, made, and organized as kinds of environments--whether terrestrial or beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Valerie Olson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 151790255X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781517902551\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/22\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2019","brand":"Valerie Olson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46465520042239,"sku":"9781517902551","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8bdda090-ea3c-462b-b7de-1d92727f15b0.jpg?v=1736346492","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/into-the-extreme-valerie-olson-9781517902551","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}