Into the Extreme: U.S. Environmental Systems and Politics Beyond Earth
Valerie Olson


Paperback | May 2018 | University of Minnesota Press | 9781517902551 | 280pp | 216x140mm | RFB | AUD$42.99, NZD$54.99

 

The first book-length, in-depth ethnography of U.S. human spaceflight What if outer space is not outside the human environment but, rather, defines it? This is the unusual starting point of Valerie Olson\u2019s Into the Extreme, revealing how outer space contributes to making what counts as the scope and scale of today\u2019s natural and social env