Space in the Tropics

Name: Space in the Tropics
Brand: University of California Press
SKU: 9780520219854
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From Convicts to Rockets in French Guiana

Autor: Peter Redfield

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Editura: University of California Press

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Rockets roar into space--bearing roughly half the world's commercial satellites--from the same South...

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Autor

Peter Redfield

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

2000

Pagini

361

EAN

9780520219854

ISBN

0520219856

Enbook ID

04616509

Editura

University of California Press

Greutate

574

Dimensiuni

154 x 228 x 320

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Rockets roar into space--bearing roughly half the world's commercial satellites--from the same South American coastal rainforest where convicts once did time on infamous Devil's Island. What makes Space in the Tropics enthralling is anthropologist Peter Redfield's ability to draw from these two disparate European projects in French Guiana a gleaming web of ideas about the intersections of nature and culture. In comparing the Franco-European Ariane rocket program with the earlier penal experiment, Redfield connects the myth of Robinson Crusoe, nineteenth-century prison reform, the Dreyfus Affair, tropical medicine, postwar exploration of outer space, satellite technology, development, and ecotourism with a focus on place, and the incorporation of this particular place into greater extended systems. Examining the wider context of the Ariane program, he argues that technology and nature must be understood within a greater ecology of displacement and makes a case for the importance of margins in understanding the trajectories of modern life.

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