Valerie A Olson
Biographic Data
| ID | 87551 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Valerie A Olson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Valerie A |
| FAMILY NAME | Olson |
| SIGNATURE | OLSON V A |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Political Ecology in the Extreme: Asteroid Activism and the Making of an Environmental Solar System
This case study examines how, in a post-Cold War context, aerospace and astronautics practices and policies are becoming more comprehensively attached to national and international environmental politics. This is evident in the emergence of a dual identity for Near Earth Objects (asteroids and comets with orbits that bring them close to the Earth); they are astronomical as well as environmental objects that are considered to be threats as well as…
Extreme: Limits and Horizons in the Once and Future Cosmos
This paper introduces a special collection of Anthropological Quarterly for examining "the extreme" in contemporary modernity. Drawing upon sites of political, scientific, and economic engagement that source specifically to the extraterrestrial, we argue that the figure of the extreme shapes an analytic of limits and ever-opening horizons-epistemological and physical-provoking new understandings of humanness, environment, temporality, and of inte…
The Ecobiopolitics of Space Biomedicine
Using data from an ethnographic study of American astronautics, I argue that, in an inversion of the usual clinical model, astronaut medical subjecthood is fundamentally environmental rather than biological. In extreme environments like outer space, the concept of environment cannot be bracketed out from life processes; as a result, investments of power and knowledge shift from life itself to the sites of interface among living things, technologi…
Encountering the Future: Anthropology and Outer Space
Extreme: Limits and Horizons in the Once and Future Cosmos
This paper introduces a special collection of Anthropological Quarterly for examining "the extreme" in contemporary modernity. Drawing upon sites of political, scientific, and economic engagement that source specifically to the extraterrestrial, we argue that the figure of the extreme shapes an analytic of limits and ever-opening horizons-epistemological and physical-provoking new understandings of humanness, environment, temporality, and of inte…
Political Ecology in the Extreme: Asteroid Activism and the Making of an Environmental Solar System
This case study examines how, in a post-Cold War context, aerospace and astronautics practices and policies are becoming more comprehensively attached to national and international environmental politics. This is evident in the emergence of a dual identity for Near Earth Objects (asteroids and comets with orbits that bring them close to the Earth); they are astronomical as well as environmental objects that are considered to be threats as well as…
The Ecobiopolitics of Space Biomedicine
Using data from an ethnographic study of American astronautics, I argue that, in an inversion of the usual clinical model, astronaut medical subjecthood is fundamentally environmental rather than biological. In extreme environments like outer space, the concept of environment cannot be bracketed out from life processes; as a result, investments of power and knowledge shift from life itself to the sites of interface among living things, technologi…
Encountering the Future: Anthropology and Outer Space
Encountering the Future: Anthropology and Outer Space
The Ecobiopolitics of Space Biomedicine
Using data from an ethnographic study of American astronautics, I argue that, in an inversion of the usual clinical model, astronaut medical subjecthood is fundamentally environmental rather than biological. In extreme environments like outer space, the concept of environment cannot be bracketed out from life processes; as a result, investments of power and knowledge shift from life itself to the sites of interface among living things, technologi…
Political Ecology in the Extreme: Asteroid Activism and the Making of an Environmental Solar System
This case study examines how, in a post-Cold War context, aerospace and astronautics practices and policies are becoming more comprehensively attached to national and international environmental politics. This is evident in the emergence of a dual identity for Near Earth Objects (asteroids and comets with orbits that bring them close to the Earth); they are astronomical as well as environmental objects that are considered to be threats as well as…
Extreme: Limits and Horizons in the Once and Future Cosmos
This paper introduces a special collection of Anthropological Quarterly for examining "the extreme" in contemporary modernity. Drawing upon sites of political, scientific, and economic engagement that source specifically to the extraterrestrial, we argue that the figure of the extreme shapes an analytic of limits and ever-opening horizons-epistemological and physical-provoking new understandings of humanness, environment, temporality, and of inte…
Environmental ethics (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Astronautics (2 works) · Biology (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works)