Mette Bryld: Cosmodolphins | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9781856498166 | Cosmodolphins | Mette Bryld (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2000

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Beschreibung

Applying recent thinking on gender and the environment to original research in science and technology, this unique book explores postcolonial relationships with 'the wild' using the US and Russia as examples. The authors analyse contemporary categorizations of 'human self' versus 'wild other' through three twentieth century icons that best illustrate ambivalent ideas about self and other: spaceships, horoscopes and dolphins. The book includes interviews with astrologers, wilderness guides, dolphin trainers and academic staff of space agencies from both Russia and the [...] interviews highlight some interesting differences between these two cultures in ideas both about gender and about self/other boundaries. The authors also look at representations of the space race in film and science fiction in both cultures, as well as New Age and other texts on dolphins, astrology and space travel.

Cosmodolphins shows how all three icons partly reproduce and partly alter the earlier, colonial self/other dichotomy of woman, native and nature against the 'civilized' technologically masterful male self. We see how a particular icon of the wild - the dolphin - is elevated to mythological status, how a secularized society looks for spiritual fulfilment in the `beyond' - astrology - and in its own technological advances - space travel. Theoretically innovative, this book represents an alternative approach to ecofeminist themes linking them up with studies of new technocultures and cyborgs. It forms an excellent exemplar of feminist cultural studies.

Über den Autor

Mette Bryld and Nina Lykke

Zusammenfassung

Applying thinking on gender and the environment to research on science and technology, this is an analysis of contemporary categorizations of human self versus wild other, through three 20th-century icons - spaceships, horoscopes and dolphins.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents
Prelude and Introduction.
1. Map of Matrices.
Amazing Stories 1: The Spaceship, the Horoscope and the Dolphin
2. Between Amazement and Estrangement.
3. The Big Mission.
4. Terraforming: Farmers in the Sky.
Amazing Stories 2: The Dark Side of the Moon
5. As Above, So Below.
6. One Does Not Stir Without the Other.
7. Voices from Inner and Outer space: Refiguring Mother Sea and Father Sky.
Amazing Stories 3: Dolphin Versatility: From Living Missiles to Healers
8. Rocket State and Dolphin State.
9. Conclusion: Inappropriate Contiguities Revisited.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2000
Genre:	Importe , Soziologie
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781856498166
ISBN-10:	1856498166
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Bryld, Mette Lykke, Nina
Hersteller:	Bloomsbury 3PL
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	216 x 140 x 16 mm
Von/Mit:	Mette Bryld (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.02.2000
Gewicht:	0,369 kg