Launching Europe : An Ethnography of European Cooperation in Space Science

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In this first ethnographic study of the European Space Agency, Stacia Zabusky explores the complex processes involved in cooperation on space science missions in the contemporary context of European integration. Zabusky argues that the practice of cooperation does not depend on a homogenizing of int...

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Autor principal: Zabusky, Stacia E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Ethnic relations.
Engineering.
Astronautics > International cooperation.
Astronautics.
SCIENCE > History.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Aeronautics & Astronautics.
engineering.
Ingenierie.
Astronautique.
Astronautique > Europe.
Astronautique > Europe > Cooperation internationale.
Astronautics > Europe.
Astronautics > Europe > International cooperation.
Europe.
Europe > Relations interethniques.
Europe > Ethnic relations.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:In this first ethnographic study of the European Space Agency, Stacia Zabusky explores the complex processes involved in cooperation on space science missions in the contemporary context of European integration. Zabusky argues that the practice of cooperation does not depend on a homogenizing of interests in a bland unity. Instead, it consists of ongoing negotiation of and conflict over often irreconcilable differences. In this case, those differences are put into play by both technical and political divisions of labor (in particular, those of big science and of European integration). Zabusky s.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (296 pages).
ISBN:9781400821600

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