Space travel and culture : from Apollo to space tourism / edited by Martin Parker and David Bell

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TextSeries: Sociological review monographsPublication details: Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell/Sociological Review, c2009Description: 223 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:

1405193328
9781405193320

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Contents:

Checklist : the secret life of Apollo’s ’fourth crewmember’ / Matthew H. Hersch -- Political history of NASA’s space shuttle : the development years, 1972-1982 / Brian Woods -- Geostationary orbit : a critical legal geography of space’s most valuable real estate / Christy Collis -- Cosmos as capitalism’s outside / Peter Dickens -- Capitalists in space / r Martin Parker -- t Space is the (non)place : Martians, Marxists, and the outer space of the radical imagination / Stevphen Shukaitis -- Space race and Soviet utopian thinking / Iina Kohonen -- Archaeology of space exploration / Alice Gorman -- Giant leaps and forgotten steps : NASA and the performance of gender / Daniel Sage -- Idealized heroes of ’retrotopia’ : history, identity and the postmodern in Apollo 13 / Dario Llinares -- Middle America, the moon, the sublime and the uncanny / Darren Jorgensen -- Re-thinking Apollo : envisioning environmentalism in space / Holly Henry and Amanda Taylor -- Conclusion : to infinity and beyond? / Warren Smith

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Open Shelf	UMPLIB PEKAN	TL794.5 .S63 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		0000049228

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction : making space / artin Parker and David Bell -- Checklist : the secret life of Apollo’s ’fourth crewmember’ / Matthew H. Hersch -- Political history of NASA’s space shuttle : the development years, 1972-1982 / Brian Woods -- Geostationary orbit : a critical legal geography of space’s most valuable real estate / Christy Collis -- Cosmos as capitalism’s outside / Peter Dickens -- Capitalists in space / r Martin Parker -- t Space is the (non)place : Martians, Marxists, and the outer space of the radical imagination / Stevphen Shukaitis -- Space race and Soviet utopian thinking / Iina Kohonen -- Archaeology of space exploration / Alice Gorman -- Giant leaps and forgotten steps : NASA and the performance of gender / Daniel Sage -- Idealized heroes of ’retrotopia’ : history, identity and the postmodern in Apollo 13 / Dario Llinares -- Middle America, the moon, the sublime and the uncanny / Darren Jorgensen -- Re-thinking Apollo : envisioning environmentalism in space / Holly Henry and Amanda Taylor -- Conclusion : to infinity and beyond? / Warren Smith