9780520219854-0520219856-Space in the Tropics: From Convicts to Rockets in French Guiana

Space in the Tropics: From Convicts to Rockets in French Guiana

ISBN-13: 9780520219854
ISBN-10: 0520219856
Edition: First Edition
Author: Peter Redfield
Publication date: 2000
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Paperback 350 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780520219854
ISBN-10: 0520219856
Edition: First Edition
Author: Peter Redfield
Publication date: 2000
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Paperback 350 pages

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Space in the Tropics: From Convicts to Rockets in French Guiana (ISBN-13: 9780520219854 and ISBN-10: 0520219856), written by authors Peter Redfield, was published by University of California Press in 2000. With an overall rating of 3.5 stars, it's a notable title among other Native American (Americas History, Oceania, Australia & Oceania History, Human Geography, Social Sciences, Cultural, Anthropology, Anthropology, Behavioral Sciences) books. You can easily purchase or rent Space in the Tropics: From Convicts to Rockets in French Guiana (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Native American books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.57.

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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.

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