CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2015
| Author | Szucs, Tamara |
|---|---|
| Title | Rendezvous with a comet: A feminist new materialist analysis of the Rosetta space mission |
| Summary | On 12 November 2014 - and for the first time in history - the European Space Agency’s remotely controlled Rosetta spacecraft landed an exploring robot, Philae on the surface of a comet, 67P/Churyumov&# x2013;Gerasimen ko, as part of the quest to find out more about the origins of human life. Practising a feminist and critical materialist approach, this thesis interrogates the workings of modernity’s hierarchical dichotomies within the scientific and public discourses of this space exploration project to reveal not just how this purportedly progressive scientific knowledge-making project embodies intensely gendered and exploitative practices but that – paradoxically – it may also be animated by traces of subversive and transgressive ethico-onto-epistemologies from which feminist and new materialist theory could potentially benefit. |
| Supervisor | Timar, Eszter |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2015/szucs_tamara.pdf |
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