Matthew Johnson

Property Rights in Outer Space (eBook, PDF)

Mining, Techno-Utopian Imaginaries, and the Privatisation of the Off-World Frontier

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the role of private mining rights in the utopian imaginary of space colonisation. It presents a transdisciplinary account and interrogates the new and evolving legislative frameworks that govern access to the mineral resources of space.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040037096
• Artikelnr.: 70293921

Autorenporträt

Matthew Johnson was awarded his PhD in 2020 from the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. He has worked in a variety of academic and public sector roles, and currently lives and works in Sydney.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
1. Introduction
2. NewSpace and neoliberalism
3. Enclosing the space commons? Off-world property through the lens of
political history
4. On mineral sovereignty: state-corporate appropriation and the power of
mining capital
5. Making and re-making the 'space constitution'
6. Privateering the cosmic frontier: empire, myth and the violence of
property
7. Techno-utopianism and post-limits environmentalism
8. Epilogue
References