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Space in the Tropics From Convicts to Rockets in French Guiana

By: Peter Redfield
345 pages, B/w photos
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  • Space in the Tropics ISBN: 9780520219854 Paperback Dec 2000 Not in stock: Usually dispatched within 6 days
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Rockets roar into space - bearing roughly half the world's commercial satellites - from the same South American coastal rainforest where convicts once did time on infamous Devil's Island. What makes this book enthralling is anthropologists Peter Redfield's ability to draw from these two disparate European projects in French Guyana a gleaming web of ideas about the intersections of nature and culture. In comparing the Franco-European Ariane rocket program with the earlier penal experiment, Redfield connects the myth of Robinson Crusoe, 19th century prison reform, the Dreyfus Affair, tropical medicine, post-war exploration of outer space, satellite technology, development and ecotourism with a focus on place, and the incorporation of this particular place into greater extended systems. Examining the wider context of the Ariane program, he argues that technology and nature must be understood within a greater ecology of displacement and makes a case for the importance of margins in understanding the trajectories of modern life.

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Peter Redfield is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

By: Peter Redfield
345 pages, B/w photos
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