19th century prison reform
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anthropology
ariane
Author_Peter Redfield
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colonialism
convicts
cultural studies
dreyfus affair
ecotourism
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european projects
european space agency
franco european ariane rocket program
french guiana
guiana space centre
incarceration
launch vehicles
nature
penal experiment
postwar space exploration
prison
prison system
robinson crusoe
rockets
satellite technology
south america
space launch
space travel
tropical medicine
western europe
Product details
- ISBN 9780520219854
- Weight: 590g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 19 Dec 2000
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Rockets roar into space--bearing roughly half the world's commercial satellites--from the same South American coastal rainforest where convicts once did time on infamous Devil's Island. What makes Space in the Tropics enthralling is anthropologist Peter Redfield's ability to draw from these two disparate European projects in French Guiana a gleaming web of ideas about the intersections of nature and culture. In comparing the Franco-European Ariane rocket program with the earlier penal experiment, Redfield connects the myth of Robinson Crusoe, nineteenth-century prison reform, the Dreyfus Affair, tropical medicine, postwar exploration of outer space, satellite technology, development, and ecotourism with a focus on place, and the incorporation of this particular place into greater extended systems. Examining the wider context of the Ariane program, he argues that technology and nature must be understood within a greater ecology of displacement and makes a case for the importance of margins in understanding the trajectories of modern life.
Peter Redfield is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
