Zabusky Launching Europe

An Ethnography of European Cooperation in Space Science
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2160-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Zabusky, Stacia E.

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction: Multiple Cooperations 3

1 The Study of Cooperation: Theoretical Issues 17

2 The European Space Agency and the Structure of Cooperation 47

3 The Practice of Cooperation: Working Together on Space Science Missions 69

4 Struggling with Diversity: The Social and Cultural Dynamics of Working Together 103

5 Evasion and Responsibility: The Politics of Working Together 125

6 Existential Worries: Excitement and Boredom in the Experience of Working Together 153

7 Working Together Transformed: The Production of Technology and Cooperation 179

Epilogue: Sacred Cooperation and the Dreams of Modernity 196

Notes 221

References 247

Index 259

Über Autor(innen)

Stacia E. Zabusky is Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Hobart and William Smith Colleges and Associate in Research at the Institute for European Studies, Cornell University.