Rachael Squire

Undersea Geopolitics

Sealab, Science, and the Cold War

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book furthers academic scholarship in cutting-edge areas of geographical and geopolitical writing by drawing on a series of little-studied undersea living projects conducted by the US Navy during the Cold War (Project Genesis, Sealab I, II and III).

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Produktdetails

• Geopolitical Bodies, Material Worlds
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 422g
• ISBN-13: 9781786607300
• ISBN-10: 1786607301
• Artikelnr.: 60010765

Autorenporträt

Rachael Squire is a political geographer and lecturer in human geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her research engages with the concepts of territory, embodiment, and 'volume' with a particular focus on the space of the sea.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Towards the 'deep dark sea'
2. 'Taking chances for all of mankind': Taming the Underwater Frontier
3. Domesticating and dishwashing: Making 'home on the seafloor
4. 'A breed apart': Taking the measure of man
5. 'Think Helium': Submarine pressures and elemental entanglements
6. Companions, zappers, and invaders: The animals of Sealab
7. From Sealab to Skylab: Inhabiting extremes
8. Conclusions