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Books
Ground Control: An Argument for the End of Human Space Exploration, 2024, Savannah Mandel, Chicago Review Press.
A City on Mars, 2023, Kelly Weinersmith and Zach Weinersmith, Penguin Random House.
Off-Earth: Ethical Questions and Quandaries for Living in Outer Space, 2023, Erika Nesvold, MIT Press.
Reclaiming Space: Progressive and Multicultural Visions of Space Exploration, 2023, eds. J.S. Johnson-Schwartz, Linda Billings, and Erika Nesvold, Oxford University Press.
Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race, 2022, Mary-Jane Rubenstein, University of Chicago Press.
Original Sin: Power, Technology and War in Outer Space, 2022, Bleddyn Bowen, Hurst.
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred, 2021, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Bold Type Books.
Space Forces: A Critical History of Life in Outer Space, 2021, Fred Scharmen, Verso.
Dark Skies: Space Expansionism, Planetary Geopolitics, and the Ends of Humanity, 2020, Daniel Deudney, Oxford University Press.
Spaces For The Future, 2018, eds. Joe Pitt and Ashley Shew, Routledge.
The Ethics of Space Exploration, 2016, J.S. Johnson-Schwartz and Tony Milligan, Springer.
Placing Outer Space: An Earthly Ethnography of Other Worlds, 2016, Lisa Messeri, Duke UP.
Nobody Owns the Moon: The Ethics of Space Exploration, 2015, Tony Milligan, McFarland.
Humans in Outer Space – Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 2011, eds. Ulrike Landfester, Nina-Louisa Remuss, Kai-Uwe Schrogl, and Jean-Claude Worms, Springer.
Icarus’ Second Chance: The Basis and Perspectives of Space Ethics, 2011, Jacques Arnould, Springer.
Future Ethics: Climate Change and Apocalyptic Imagination, 2010, ed. Stefan Skrimshire, Bloomsbury.
The Environmental Element in Space Law: Assessing the Past and Charting the Future, 2008, Lotta Viikari, Brill.
Journal Articles
Bawaka Country. 2020. “Dukarr Lakarama: Listening to Guwak, Talking Back to Space Colonization.” Political Geography 81 (August):102218. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2020.102218.
Beery, Jason. 2012. “State, Capital and Spaceships: A Terrestrial Geography of Space Tourism.” Geoforum 43 (1): 25–34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2011.07.013.
Burwell, Jennifer. 2019. “Imagining the beyond: The Social and Political Fashioning of Outer Space.” Space Policy 48 (May):41–49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spacepol.2018.10.002.
Deberdt, Raphael, and Philippe Le Billon. 2023. “Outer Space Mining: Exploring Techno-Utopianism in a Time of Climate Crisis.” Annals of the American Association of Geographers 113 (8): 1878–99. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2023.2201339.
Finnegan, Ciara. 2022. “Indigenous Interests in Outer Space: Addressing the Conflict of Increasing Satellite Numbers with Indigenous Astronomy Practices.” Laws 11 (2): 26. https://doi.org/10.3390/laws11020026.
Gorman, A.C. 2016. “Culture on the Moon: Bodies in Time and Space.” Archaeologies: Journal of the World Archaeological Congress. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11759-015-9286-7.
Hunter, Hannah, and Elizabeth Nelson. 2021. “Out of Place in Outer Space?: Exploring Orbital Debris through Geographical Imaginations.” Environment and Society 12 (1): 227–45. https://doi.org/10.3167/ares.2021.120113.
Klinger, Julie Michelle. 2021. “Environmental Geopolitics and Outer Space.” Geopolitics 26 (3): 666–703. https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2019.1590340.
Korpershoek, Karlijn. 2023. “Accessibility to Space Infrastructures and Outer Space: Anthropological Insights from Europe’s Spaceport.” International Journal of the Commons 17 (1): 481–91. https://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.1284.
Matthews, J.J. and S. McMahon. 2018. “Exogeoconservation: Protecting geological heritage on celestial bodies.” Acta Astronautica 149: 55-60. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2018.05.034.
Rahder, Micha. 2021. “Home and Away: The Politics of Life after Earth.” Environment and Society: Advances in Research 10 (August):158–77. https://doi.org/10.3167/ares.2019.100110.
Rand, Lisa Ruth. 2019. “Falling Cosmos: Nuclear Reentry and the Environmental History of Earth Orbit.” Environmental History 24 (1): 78–103. https://doi.org/10.1093/envhis/emy125.
Ronca, A.E., et al. “Effects of Sex and Gender on Adaptations to Space: Reproductive Health.” Journal of Women’s Health 23 (11): 967-974. https://doi.org/10.1089/jwh.2014.4915.
Sammler, Katherine G, and Casey R Lynch. 2021. “Apparatuses of Observation and Occupation: Settler Colonialism and Space Science in Hawai’i.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 39 (5): 945–65. https://doi.org/10.1177/02637758211042374.
Shammas, Victor L., and Tomas B. Holen. 2019. “One Giant Leap for Capitalistkind: Private Enterprise in Outer Space.” Palgrave Communications 5 (1): 10. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-019-0218-9.
Utrata, Alina. 2023. “Engineering Territory: Space and Colonies in Silicon Valley.” American Political Science Review 118 (3): 1097–1109. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055423001156.
Valentine, D. 2017. “Gravity Fixes: Habituating to the Human on Mars and Island Three.” Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 7 (3): 185-209. https://doi.org/10.14318/hau7.3.012.
Vertesi, J. 2012. “Seeing like a Rover: Visualization, embodiment, and interaction on the Mars Exploration Rover Mission.” Social Studies of Science 42 (3): 393 –414. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306312712444645.
Walsh, J. 2012. “Protection of Humanity’s Cultural and Historic Heritage in Space.” Space Policy 28 (4): 234-243. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spacepol.2012.04.001.
Whitmire, A. et al. 2015. Minimum Acceptable Net Habitable Volume for Long-Duration Exploration Missions: Subject Matter Expert Consensus Session Report. NASA/TM - 2015 - 218564. https://ston.jsc.nasa.gov/collections/trs/_techrep/TM-2015-218564.pdf
Yap, Xiao-Shan, and Rakhyun E. Kim. 2023. “Towards Earth-Space Governance in a Multi-Planetary Era.” Earth System Governance 16 (April):100173. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esg.2023.100173.
White Papers
Khan, Z., et al., “Military Work by Space Exploration Organizations: A Barrier to Inclusion and Safe Workspaces for Marginalized Communities.” Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032, 2020, https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021BAAS...53d.421K/abstract
Rivkin, A., et al., “Asteroid Resource Utilization: Ethical Concerns and Progress”, Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032, 2020, https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.03369
Tavares, F. et al, “Ethical Exploration and the Role of Planetary Protection in Disrupting Colonial Practices”, Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032, 2020. https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.08344