Klinger Publishes Article in Progress in Human Geography
Julie Klinger, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, recently published a journal article that highlights the colonial origins of our contemporary space race; discusses the physical limits of infinity; and calls for geographers to consider the political, economic, environmental, and cultural importance of outer space to more traditional fields of inquiry.
Klingers article, entitled “Geographies of Outer Space: Progress and New Opportunities,” was published as a Forum piece in Progress in Human Geography.
From the text of the abstract:
Research into outer space has burgeoned in recent years, through the work of scholars in the social sciences, arts and humanities. Geographers have made a series of useful contributions to this emergent work, but scholarship remains fairly limited in comparison to other disciplinary fields. This forum explains the scholarly roots of these new geographies of outer space, considering why and how geographies of outer space could make further important contributions. The forum invites reflections from political, environmental, historical and cultural geographers to show how human geography can present future avenues to continued scholarship into outer space.
Julie Klinger specializes in development, environment, and security politics in Latin America and China in comparative and global perspective. She is currently completing a book project on the global geography of rare earth prospecting and mining, with a special emphasis on the development and geopolitics of resource frontiers in Brazil, China, and Outer Space.