"Selling the Space Age: NASA and Earth's Environment, 1958–1990"
McQuaid advances the view that NASA consistently misread the importance of the most popular science-based political movement of the late twentieth century.
McQuaid advances the view that NASA consistently misread the importance of the most popular science-based political movement of the late twentieth century.
This paper examines the interrelations of technology, environment and people by exploring the origin, design and implementation of a dam-building project intended to control water-level fluctuations and enhance the Nett Lake wild rice ecosystem at Bois Forte Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota.
Sara Dant, Michael Lewis, and Robert M. Wilson discuss Etienne Benson’s Wired Wilderness: Technologies of Tracking and the Making of Modern Wildlife.
Richard Gault explores the nature of time and its relation to our concerns for the future.
Steven Luper discusses natural resources, gadgets, and artificial life.
Andrew Jamison and Erik Baark attempt to indicate how national cultural differences affect the ways in which science and technology policies in the environmental field are formulated and implemented.
Walker focuses on uncertainty as a boundary device that shapes scientific ethos in crucial ways and negotiates a relationship between technical science and public deliberation.
This article studies the aetiology underlying water management by exploring the social hermeneutics that determined its construction. It details how science, technology and political relations construct each other mutually, both producing and harnessing the scientific discourse on the environment.
In this Special Section on Familiarizing the Extraterrestrial / Making Our Planet Alien, edited by Istvan Praet and Juan Francisco Salazar, Leah V. Aronowsky uses the history of an unrealized technology, the bioregenerative life-support system, to rethink conventional accounts of American spaceflight that cast the space cabin as the ultimate expression of humans’ capacity to technologically master their environments.
In this Special Section on Familiarizing the Extraterrestrial / Making Our Planet Alien, edited by Istvan Praet and Juan Francisco Salazar, Istvan Praet focuses on the ultraviolet spectrum to examine how astrobiologists look at celestial bodies, planetary atmospheres, the skin, and the eye. He offers a reflection on how outer space can be apprehended from a humanities perspective.