1 An Introduction to Reclaiming Space -- Part 1 The Evolution and History of Spaceflight -- 2 Neoliberalism: Problematic. Neoliberal Space Policy? Extremely Problematic -- 3 Space from Āfār: From Africa across the Indian Ocean to the Pacific -- 4 Cold Warrior Magic, Africana Science, and NASA Space Race Religion, Part One: Laura Nader's Contrarian Anthropology for Afrofuturist Times -- 5 Global Participation in the "Space Frontier" -- 6 Phrenology in Space: Legacies of Scientific Racism in Classifying Extraterrestrial Intelligence -- Part 2 The Art of Envisioning Space -- 7 The Language of Space -- 8 Spacefaring for Kinship -- 9 Opportunities to Pursue Liberatory, Anticolonial, and Antiracist Designs for Human Societies beyond Earth -- 10 African Space Art as a New Perspective on Space Law -- 11 Embodiment in Space Imagery: Beyond the Dominant Narrative -- 12 Appreciating What's Beautiful about Space -- Part 3 Cultural Narratives and Spaceflight -- 13 Sacred Space: Decolonization through the Afrofuture -- 14 Sherpas on the Moon: The Case for Including "Native Guides" in Space Exploration -- 15 Indigeneity, Space Expansion, and the Three-Body Problem -- 16 On Loving Nonliving Stuff -- 17 Reclaiming Space: On Hope in a Jar, a Bear in the Sky, and the Running Red Queen -- Part 4 Being Accountable in the Present -- 18 Contact Zones and Outer Space Environments: A Feminist Archaeological Analysis of Space Habitats -- 19 Occupy Space: Will Disabled People Fly? -- 20 Protecting Labor Rights in Space -- 21 Reclaiming Lunar Resources: Paving the Way for An International Property Rights Regime for Outer Space -- 22 Starlink or Stargazing: Will Commerce Outshine Science? -- 23 Creating a Culture of Extraterrestrial Environmental Concern -- Part 5 Visions of the Further Future -- 24 Desire, Duty, and Discrimination: Is There an Ethical Way to Select Humans for Noah's Ark? -- 25 Deconstructing and Reprivileging the Education System for Space -- 26 Astrobioethics Considerations Regarding Space Exploration -- 27 Greening the Universe: The Case for Ecocentric Space Expansion -- 28 Will Posthumans Dream of Humans? A Message to Our Dear Postplanetary Descendants
Summary:
"Space, to use a worn metaphor, is in the mind of the beholder. When we contemplate the seemingly limitless universe, we tend to project onto space our own hopes and dreams (as well as our fears and anxieties). But like responses to Rorschach inkblots, there are many different hopes, dreams, fears, and anxieties that one can project onto the night's sky. To those who approach it with a thirst for profits, space appears as a resource-rich goldmine, beckoning to anyone with enough wealth and privilege to take advantage of untapped markets. To those who approach it with a yearning for human expansion, space appears as a frontier that is humanity's birthright to conquer, its new manifest destiny. To those who approach it with a passion for knowledge and understanding, space appears as a tantalizing and pristine laboratory for scientific exploration. In these ways, our visions for humanity's future in space--what planets and moons we hope to visit, what we hope to accomplish when we get there--are more products of our perspectives about space (and our underlying worldviews and value systems) than anything else"-- Provided by publisher.
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