Into the Extreme - U.S. Environmental Systems and Politics Beyond Earth - Grand Format

Into the Extreme shifts our attention from space's political geography to its political ecology, showing how scientists, physicians, and engineers across North America collaborate to build the conceptual and nuts-and-bolts systems that connect Earth to a specifically ecosystemic cosmos. Showing how contemporary U.S. environmental power is bound up with the production of national technical and scientific access to outer space, Valerie Olson brings important new insights to our understanding of modern environmental history and politics.
At a time when the boundaries of global ecologies and economies extend far below and above Earth's surface, Olson's new analytic frameworks help us understand how varieties of outlying spaces are known, made, and organized as kinds of environments—whether terrestrial or beyond.