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The Cold War the Space Race and the Law of Outer Space Space for Peace

The Cold War the Space Race and the Law of Outer Space Space for Peace

The Cold War the Space Race and the Law of Outer Space: Space for Peace tells the story of one of the United Nations’ most enduring and least known achievements: the adoption of five multilateral treaties that compose the international law of outer space. The story begins in 1957 during the International Geophysical Year the largest ever cooperative scientific endeavor that resulted in the launch of Sputnik. Although satellites were first launched under the auspices of peaceful scientific cooperation the potentially world-ending implications of satellites and the rockets that carried them was obvious to all. By the 1960s the world faced the prospect of nuclear testing in outer space the placement of weapons of mass destruction in orbit and the militarization of the moon. This book tells the story of how the United Nations tried to seize the promise of peace through scientific cooperation and to ward off the potential for war in the Space Age through the adoption of the Outer Space Treaty the Rescue and Return Agreement the Liability Convention the Registration Convention and the Moon Agreement. Interdisciplinary in approach the book will be of interest to scholars in law history and other fields who are interested in the Cold War the Space Race and outer space law. | The Cold War the Space Race and the Law of Outer Space Space for Peace

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Space

Space

Space is the first accessible text which provides a comprehensive examination of approaches that have crossed between such diverse fields as philosophy physics architecture sociology anthropology and geography. The text examines the influence of geometry arithmetic natural philosophy empiricism and positivism to the development of spatial thinking as well as focusing on the contributions of phenomenologists existentialists psychologists Marxists and post-structuralists to how we occupy live structure and perform spaces and practices of spacing. The book emphasises the multiple and partial construction of spaces through the embodied practices of diverse subjects highlighting the contributions of feminists queer theorists anthropologists sociologists and post-colonial scholars to academic debates. In contrast to contemporary studies which draw a clear line between scientific and particularly quantitative approaches to space and spatiality and more ‘lived’ human enactments and performances this book highlights the continual influence of different mathematical and philosophical understandings of space and spatiality on everyday western spatial imaginations and registers in the twenty-first century. Space is possibly the key concept underpinning research in geography as well as being of central importance to scholars and practitioners working across the arts humanities social sciences and physical sciences.

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Getting Ready to Learn Creating Effective Educational Children’s Media

Getting Ready to Learn Creating Effective Educational Children’s Media

Getting Ready to Learn describes how educational media have and are continuing to play a role in meeting the learning needs of children parents and teachers. Based on years of meaningful data from the CPB-PBS Ready To Learn Initiative chapters explore how to develop engaging playful and developmentally appropriate content. From Emmy-Award-winning series to randomized controlled trials this book covers the media production scholarly research and technological advances surrounding some of the country’s most beloved programming. | Getting Ready to Learn Creating Effective Educational Children’s Media

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Public Space Reader

Public Space Reader

Recent global appropriations of public spaces through urban activism public uprising and political protest have brought back democratic values beliefs and practices that have been historically associated with cities. Given the aggressive commodification of public re- sources public space is critically important due to its capacity to enable forms of public dis- course and social practice which are fundamental for the well-being of democratic societies. Public Space Reader brings together public space scholarship by a cross-disciplinary group of academics and specialists whose essays consider fundamental questions: What is public space and how does it manifest larger cultural social and political processes? How are public spaces designed socially and materially produced and managed? How does this impact the nature and character of public experience? What roles does it play in the struggles for the just city and the Right to The City? What critical participatory approaches can be employed to create inclusive public spaces that respond to the diverse needs desires and aspirations of individuals and communities alike? What are the critical global and comparative perspectives on public space that can enable further scholarly and professional work? And what are the futures of public space in the face of global pandemics such as COVID-19? The readers of this volume will be rewarded with an impressive array of perspectives that are bound to expand critical understanding of public space.

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Religion and Outer Space

Religion and Outer Space

Religion and Outer Space examines religion in and on the final frontier. This book offers a first-of-its-kind roadmap for thinking about complex encounters of religion and outer space. A multidisciplinary group of scholarly experts takes up some of the most intriguing scientific spiritual trade/commercial and even military dimensions of the complex entanglements of religion and outer space. Attending to the historical reality that the interconnections between religion and the heavens are as old as religions themselves the volume starts with an examination of outer space elements in the most sacred writings of the world’s religions. It then explores some of the religious questions inevitable in this encounter analyzing cultural constructions (both literary and actual) of religion and outer space. It ends with examinations of the role of religion in the very real and very present business of space exploration. What might motivate the spread of religion (or at least fantasies of religion in its myriad possibilities) into new interior and exterior dimensions of the cosmos? Only the future will tell. Religion and Outer Space is essential reading for students and academics with an interest in religion and space religion and science space exploration religion and science fiction popular culture and religion in America.

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Shared Space: Divided Space Essays on Conflict and Territorial Organization

Shared Space: Divided Space Essays on Conflict and Territorial Organization

This specially commissioned volume of original essays first published in 1990 provides a unique view of conflict territorial behaviour and reconciliation between groups – social racial religious and nationalist – within states in both the developed and the developing worlds. The volume as a whole shows the wide range of geographical solutions which have been adopted in attempts to limit conflict and foster stability. This title underlines the importance of a geographical perspective on intergroup conflict and reconciliation and provides a broad range of real-world experience in carefully chosen case studies. Shared Space: Divided Space will be of interest students of the social sciences as well as to general readers who will find this title to be accessible and authoritative. | Shared Space: Divided Space Essays on Conflict and Territorial Organization

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Routledge Handbook of Space Law

Routledge Handbook of Space Law

This handbook is a reference work providing a comprehensive objective and comparative overview of Space Law. The global space economy reached $330 billion in 2015 with a growth rate of 9 per cent vis-à-vis the previous year. Consequently Space Law is changing and expanding expeditiously especially at the national level. More laws and regulations are being adopted by space-faring nations while more countries are adapting their Space Laws and regulations related to activities in outer space. More regulatory bodies are being created while more regulatory diversity (from public law to private law) is being instituted as increasing and innovative activities are undertaken by private entities which employ new technologies and business initiatives. At the international level Space Law (both hard law and soft law) is expanding in certain areas especially in satellite broadcasting and telecommunications. The Routledge Handbook of Space Law summarises the existing state of knowledge on a comprehensive range of topics and aspires to set the future international research agenda by indicating gaps and inconsistencies in the existing law and highlighting emerging legal issues. Unlike other books on the subject it addresses major international and national legal aspects of particular space activities and issues rather than providing commentary on or explanations about a particular Space Law treaty or national regulation. Drawing together contributions from leading academic scholars and practicing lawyers from around the world the volume is divided into five key parts:• Part I: General Principles of International Space Law• Part II: International Law of Space Applications• Part III: National Regulation of Space Activities• Part IV: National Regulation of Navigational Satellite Systems• Part V: Commercial Aspects of Space LawThis handbook is both practical and theore

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Space Law A Treatise 2nd Edition

Space Law A Treatise 2nd Edition

Francis Lyall and Paul B. Larsen have been involved in teaching and researching space law for over 50 years. This new edition of their well-received text gathers together their knowledge and experience in readable form and covers developments in all space applications including space tourism telecommunications the ITU and finance. With an extensive citation of the literature the discussion provides an excellent source for both students and practitioners. | Space Law A Treatise 2nd Edition

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History Space and Place

History Space and Place

Spaces too have a history. And history always takes place in spaces. But what do historians mean when they use the word spaces? And how can spaces be historically investigated? Susanne Rau provides a survey of the history of Western concepts of space opens up interdisciplinary approaches to the phenomenon of space in fields ranging from physics and geography to philosophy and sociology and explains how historical spatial analysis can be methodologically and conceptually conceived and carried out in practice. The case studies presented in the book come from the fields of urban history the history of trade and global history including the history of cartography but its analysis is equally relevant to other fields of inquiry. This book offers the first comprehensive introduction to the theory and methodology of historical spatial analysis. | History Space and Place

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Space and Spatial Cognition A Multidisciplinary Perspective

Space and Spatial Cognition A Multidisciplinary Perspective

All living creatures inscribe their activity in space. Human beings acquire knowledge of this space by traversing it listening to verbal descriptions and looking at maps atlases and digital media. We memorize routes compare distances mentally and retrieve our starting place after a long journey. Space and Spatial Cognition provides an up-to-date introduction to the elements of human navigation and the mental representation of our environment. This book explores the mental capacities which enable us to create shortcuts imagine new pathways and thus demonstrate our adaptation to the environment. Using a multidisciplinary approach which draws on psychology neuroscience geography architecture and the visual arts the author presents answers to a number of questions. Which mental capacities do people mobilize when confronted with space? Which brain functions do they implement? How do digital technologies extend these capacities? By presenting space at the crossroads of a number of disciplines this volume reveals how each of them enhances our understanding of human behaviour in space. Space and Spatial Cognition provides a unique insight into all facets of spatial cognition including spatial behaviour language and future technologies. It will be the ideal companion for all students and researchers in the field. | Space and Spatial Cognition A Multidisciplinary Perspective

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Physics Of Space Plasmas An Introduction

Physics Of Space Plasmas An Introduction

This textbook was developed to provide seniors and first-year graduate students in physical sciences with a general knowledge of electrodynamic phenomena in space. Since the launch of the first unmanned satellite in 1957 experiments have been performed to study the behavior of electromagnetic fields and charged particles. There is now a considerable amount of data on hand and many articles including excellent review articles have been written for the specialists. However for students new researchers and non-specialists a need still exists for a book that integrates these observations in a coherent way. This book is an attempt to meet that need by using the theory of classical electrodynamics to unify space observations. The contents of this book are based on classroom notes developed for an introductory space physics course that the author has taught for many years at the University of Washington. Students taking the course normally have had an undergraduate course in electricity and magnetism but they come with very little knowledge about space. | Physics Of Space Plasmas An Introduction

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Architectural Anthropology Exploring Lived Space

Architectural Anthropology Exploring Lived Space

This book prompts architects and anthropologists to think and act together. In order to fully grasp the relationship between human beings and their built environments and design more livable and sustainable buildings and cities in the future we need new cross-disciplinary approaches combining anthropology and architecture. This is neither anthropology of architecture nor ethnography for architects but a new approach beyond these positions: Architectural Anthropology. The anthology gathers contributions from leading researchers from various Nordic universities architectural schools and architectural firms as well as prominent international scholars like Tim Ingold Albena Yaneva and Sarah Pink – all exploring developing and innovating the cross-disciplinary field between anthropology and architecture. Several contributions are co-written by architects and anthropologists merging approaches from the two disciplines in order to fully explore the dynamics of lived space. Through a broad range of empirical examples methodological approaches and theoretical reflections the anthology provides inspiration and tools for scholars students and practitioners working with lived space. The first part focusses on homes walls and boundaries the second on urban space and public life and the third on processes of creativity participation and design. | Architectural Anthropology Exploring Lived Space

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India in the Second Space Age of Interplanetary Connectivity

India in the Second Space Age of Interplanetary Connectivity

This volume discusses the emergence of space exploration as a new pivot of the global space economy in the decade of 2020s. Space exploration and human spaceflight will soon become vital strategic initiatives in the imminent second space age evolving from scientific pursuits to mega-economic projects. As the scope of international cooperation in space forays into soft science diplomacy the second space age opens opportunities for India to mount its space program as an ambitious yet conscientious proficient and cordial player in the global space economy. This book — Explores imminent trends in space exploration and interplanetary connectivity plans their returns to the global economy of the future and impact on the global astropolitical order; — Analyses the techno-economic significance of India’s space exploration by reviewing the legal ethical and philosophical challenges; the limits of global space exploration policies; and the economic lacunae for the astropolitical gains; — Examines the transformational trio of Chandrayaan Mangalyaan and Gaganyaan; dawn of the second space age; interplanetary connectivity projects; besides discussing the viability of humans becoming an interplanetary species. Part of The Gateway House Guide to India in the 2020s series this topical volume will be useful for scholars and researchers of international relations geopolitics foreign policy space policy South Asian studies strategic studies and international trade. | India in the Second Space Age of Interplanetary Connectivity

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Husserl and Spatiality A Phenomenological Ethnography of Space

Husserl and Spatiality A Phenomenological Ethnography of Space

Husserl and Spatiality is an exploration of the phenomenology of space and embodiment based on the work of Edmund Husserl. Little known in architecture Husserl’s phenomenology of embodied spatiality established the foundations for the works of later phenomenologists including Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s well-known phenomenology of perception. Through a detailed study of his posthumously published and unpublished manuscripts on space DuFour examines the depth and scope of Husserl’s phenomenology of space. The book investigates his analyses of corporeity and the “lived body ” extending to questions of intersubjective intergenerational and geo-historical spatial experience what DuFour terms the “environmentality” of space. Combining in-depth architectural philosophical investigations of spatiality with a rich and intimate ethnography Husserl and Spatiality speaks to themes in social and cultural anthropology from a theoretical perspective that addresses spatial practice and experience. Drawing on fieldwork in Brazil DuFour develops his analyses of Husserl’s phenomenology through spatial accounts of ritual in the Afro-Brazilian religion of Candomblé. The result is a methodological innovation and unique mode of spatial description that DuFour terms a “phenomenological ethnography of space. ” The book’s profoundly interdisciplinary approach makes an incisive contribution relevant to academics and students of architecture and architectural theory anthropology and material culture and philosophy and environmental aesthetics. | Husserl and Spatiality A Phenomenological Ethnography of Space

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Family and Space Rethinking Family Theory and Empirical Approaches

Family and Space Rethinking Family Theory and Empirical Approaches

While the ‘spatial turn’ within the social sciences has already nurtured a broad discussion of the relation between society and space little attention has so far been paid to the question of what we can learn about families when exploring space in its different facets. This book brings together international authors from the fields of sociology human geography and anthropology to support the development of space-sensitive and de-territorialised perspectives on the family that reach beyond classical concepts such as the ‘household’ or the ‘nuclear family’. With close attention to the implications of differing relations to space for the social fabric of families it presents studies of theoretical methodological and empirical aspects of late-modern family life. Examining the meaning of absence and presence for parenting the aesthetic and sensual dimensions of everyday family life and its digital and media-related features aspects Family and Space considers the value of a range of approaches to researching the spatial elements of family life including ethnographic accounts interviews group discussions mobile methods and network analyses. | Family and Space Rethinking Family Theory and Empirical Approaches

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Public Space Between Reimagination and Occupation

Public Space Between Reimagination and Occupation

Public Space: Between Reimagination and Occupation examines contemporary public space as a result of intense social production reflecting contradictory trends: the long-lasting effects of the global crisis manifested in supranational trade-offs between political influence state power and private ownership; and the appearance of global counter-actors enabled by the expansion of digital communication and networking technologies and rooted into new participatory cultures easily growing into mobile cultures of protest. The highlighted cases from Europe Asia Africa and North America reveal the roots of the pre-crisis processes of redistribution of capital and power as an aspect of the transition from the consumerist past into the post-consumerist present by tracing the slow growth of social discontent that has led only a few years later to the mobilization of a new kind of self-conscious globally-acting class. This edited volume brings together a broad range of interdisciplinary discussions and approaches providing sociologists cultural geographers and urban planning academics and students with an opportunity to explore the various social cultural economic and political factors leading to reappropriation and reimagination of the urban commons in the cities within which we live. | Public Space Between Reimagination and Occupation

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Public Space Unbound Urban Emancipation and the Post-Political Condition

Public Space Unbound Urban Emancipation and the Post-Political Condition

Through an exploration of emancipation in recent processes of capitalist urbanization this book argues the political is enacted through the everyday practices of publics producing space. This suggests democracy is a spatial practice rather than an abstract professional field organized by institutions politicians and movements. Public Space Unbound brings together a cross-disciplinary group of scholars to examine spaces conditions and circumstances in which emancipatory practices impact the everyday life of citizens. We ask: How do emancipatory practices relate with public space under ‘post-political conditions’? In a time when democracy solidarity and utopias are in crisis we argue that productive emancipatory claims already exist in the lived space of everyday life rather than in the expectation of urban revolution and future progress. | Public Space Unbound Urban Emancipation and the Post-Political Condition

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Kosovo The Politics of Identity and Space

Kosovo The Politics of Identity and Space

Kosovo: The Politics of Identity and Space explores the Albanian-Serbian confrontation after Slobodan Milosevic's rise to power and the policy of repression in Kosovo through the lens of the Kosovo education system. The argument is woven around the story of imposed ethnic segregation in Kosovo's education and its impact on the emergence of exclusive notions of nation and homeland among the Serbian and Albanian youth in the 1990s. The book also critically explores the wider context of the Albanian non-violent resistance including the emergence of the parallel state and its weaknesses. Kosovo: The Politics of Identity and Space not only provides an insight into events that led to the bloodshed in Kosovo in the late 1990s but also shows that the legacy of segregation is one of the major challenges the international community faces in its efforts to establish an integrated multi-ethnic society in the territory. | Kosovo The Politics of Identity and Space

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Blue Space Health and Wellbeing Hydrophilia Unbounded

Blue Space Health and Wellbeing Hydrophilia Unbounded

Health geography makes critical contributions to contemporary and emerging interdisciplinary agendas of nature-based health and health-enabling places. Couched in theory and critical empirical work on nature and health this book addresses questions on the relationships between water health and wellbeing. Water and blue space is a key focus in current health geography research and a new hydrophilic turn has emerged with a particular focus on the aspects of water which are affective life-enhancing and health-enabling. Research considers the benefits and risks associated with blue space from access to safe and clean water in the Global South to health promoting spaces found around urban waters to the deeper implications of climate change for water-based livelihoods and indigenous cultures. This book reflects recent theoretical debates within health geography drawing from research in the public health anthropology and psychology sectors. Broad thematic sections focus on interdisciplinary experiential and equity-based elements of blue space with individual chapters that consider indigenous and global health water’s healing properties leisure and blue yogic culture coastal landscapes surfing swimming and sailing along with more contested hydrophobic dimensions. The interdisciplinary lens means this book will be extremely valuable to human geographers and cultural geographers. It will also appeal to practitioners and researchers interested in environmental health leisure and tourism health inequalities and public health more broadly. | Blue Space Health and Wellbeing Hydrophilia Unbounded

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Public Art Encounters Art Space and Identity

Public Art Encounters Art Space and Identity

Public art is produced and ‘lived’ within multiple interlaced and contested political economic social and cultural-symbolic spheres. This lively collection is a mix of academic and practice-based writings that scrutinise conventional claims on the inclusiveness of public art practice. Contributions examine how various social differences across class ethnicity age gender religion ability and literacy shape encounters with public art within the ambits of the design regeneration and everyday experiences of public spaces. The chapters richly draw on case studies from the Global North and South providing comprehensive insights into the experiences of encountering public art via a variety of scales and realms. This book advances critical insights of how socially practised public arts articulate and cultivate geographies of social difference through the themes of power (the politics of encountering) affect (the embodied ways of encountering) and diversity (the inclusiveness of encountering). It will appeal to scholars students and practitioners of cultural geography the visual arts urban studies political studies and anthropology. | Public Art Encounters Art Space and Identity

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Archiving Settler Colonialism Culture Space and Race

Archiving Settler Colonialism Culture Space and Race

Archiving Settler Colonialism: Culture Race and Space brings together 15 essays from across the globe to capture a moment in settler colonial studies that turns increasingly towards new cultural archives for settler colonial research. Essays on hitherto under-examined materials—including postage stamps musical scores urban parks and psychiatric records—reflect on how cultural texts archive moments of settler self-fashioning. Archiving Settler Colonialism also expands settler colonial studies’ reach as an international academic discipline bringing together scholarly research about the British breakaway settler colonies with underanalyzed non-white non-Anglophone settler societies. The essays together illustrate settler colonial cultures as—for all their similarities—ultimately divergent constructions locally situated and produced of specific power relations within the messy operations of imperial domination. | Archiving Settler Colonialism Culture Space and Race

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Architecture on the Borderline Boundary Politics and Built Space

Architecture on the Borderline Boundary Politics and Built Space

Architecture on the Borderline interrogates space and territory in a turbulent present where nation-state borders are porous to a few but impermeable to many. It asks how these uneven and conflicted social realities are embodied in the physical and material conditions imagined produced or experienced through architecture and urbanism. Drawing on historical global examples this rich collection of essays illustrates how empires nations and cities expand their frontiers and contest boundaries but equally how borderline identities of people and places influence or expose these processes. Empirical chapters covering Central Asia the Asia Pacific region the American continent Europe and the Middle East offer multiple critical insights into the ways in which our spatial imagination is contingent on ‘border-thinking’; on the ways of being and navigating frontiers boundaries and margins the three themes used to organise their content. The underlying premise of the book is that sensitisation to border conditions can alter our understanding of the static physical spaces that service political or cultural ideologies and that the view from the periphery opens up new ways of understanding sovereignty. In exploring these various spaces and their transformative subjectivities this book also reveals the unrelenting precarity of contesting and living on the margins and related spaces and discourses that are neglected or suppressed. | Architecture on the Borderline Boundary Politics and Built Space

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