Placing Outer Space: An Earthly Ethnography of Other Worlds (Experimental Futures)
by Lisa Messeri
Lisa Messeri’s Placing Outer Space offers an ethnographic perspective on how people understand and organize ideas about other worlds. Linking space science with earthly practices, the book examines the meanings, imaginations, and possible futures that emerge when humans look beyond Earth.
About This Book
Placing Outer Space explores how outer space is understood, organized, and given meaning through earthly practices.
Drawing on ethnographic perspectives, Lisa Messeri considers the relationship between human communities and ideas about other worlds.
The book connects space science with broader questions about knowledge, imagination, and the futures people construct.
As part of the Experimental Futures series, it offers a humanities-oriented approach to thinking about space and its place in contemporary life.
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