Space Expansionism and Criminology: The Emerging Terrain of Crime, Harm, and Violence [Hardcover]

1. Introduction, 2. Space Expansionism, 3. Manufacturing of Space Nostalgia, 4.Planetary Politics and Space Weaponization, 5. Space Junk, 6. Space Mining, 7. Space Tourism, 8. Space Colonization or Space Colonialization?, 9.?The Marketing and Selling of a Utopic Future for All, 10.?Concluding Thoughts.

This book?offers readers a critical analysis of space expansionism and todays race to space that has come to define our contemporary era.?Taking a retrospective and prospective approach, the book delves into the?choices being made and the justifications being offered by the hegemonic discourse?of humans as extraplanetary beings.?

For those of you who were disappointed in the fact the amazing sci-fi series, and one of my personal favorites, The Expanse, stopped after six seasons, this book offers, if anything, criminological solace. Dawn Rothe and Victoria Collins deliver a highly original and? marveling prospective criminology of space expansionism, criticizing but also moving beyond mundane criminological thinking about crime, harm and control in space.

Yarin Eski, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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The entangled crises of capitalism, power, and ecology that condition and configure our social and material worlds are the most pressing issues of the day. Recently, though, a wide range of powerful actors have set their sights on a new frontier for humanity: outer space. In this fascinating new book, Dawn Rothe and Victoria Collins draw on a host of theoretical and analytical traditions in order to expand the boundaries of criminological inquiry by accounting for the vast prospective harms and crimes that we might anticipate from a new age in which the crises that plague our social worlds are no longer limited by planetary boundaries. As we accelerate towards outer space, there is an urgent need for serious scholarship that critically scans an always-els9