{"product_id":"securing-outer-space-natalie-bormann-9780415460569","title":"Securing Outer Space","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe challenges that space poses for political theory are profound. Yet until now, the exploration and utilization of space has generally reflected - but not challenged - the political patterns and impulses which characterized twentieth-century politics and International Relations. This edited volume analyses a number of controversial policies, and contentious strategies which have promoted space activities under the rubric of exploration and innovation, militarization and weaponization, colonization and commercialization. It places these policies and strategies in broader theoretical perspective in two key ways. Firstly, it engages in a reading of the discourses of space activities: exposing their meaning-producing practices; uncovering the narratives which convey certain space strategies as desirable, inevitable and seamless. Secondly, the essays suggest ways of understanding, and critically engaging with, the effects of particular space policies. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe essays here seek to 'bring back space' into the realm of International Relations discourse, from which it has been largely removed, marginalized and silenced. The various chapters do this by highlighting how activities in outer space are always connected to earth-bound practices and performances of the every day. \u003cem\u003eSecuring Outer Space\u003c\/em\u003e will be of great interest to students of space power, critical security studies and IR theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Natalie Bormann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415460565\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415460569\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/30\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.30w x 0.80d","brand":"Natalie Bormann","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48064922976511,"sku":"9780415460569","price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a112777c-f6dc-41d1-af05-167dee7051cb.jpg?v=1768671943","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/securing-outer-space-natalie-bormann-9780415460569","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}