Over the past half-century, human societies have successfully conquered Space, turning it into a new territory.
This Chair explores the new cultural, geostrategic and environmental issues revolving around the notion of space as a territory or common good for humanity.
Three objectives
- Develop cutting-edge multidisciplinary research
- Raise public awareness
- Train future researchers and decision-makers
Three main areas of research
- Uses and representations of Space
- Reconciling space as a common good and space as a sovereignty issue
- What sustainable uses of space
News
The Space Chair is hosting its first PSL Week
The theme: Space exploration: socio-cultural, geostrategic, economic, and environmental issues Human activities in outer space have grown significantly in recent
Developing synergies between research teams in Europe: a workshop at the Collège de France
On November 21, the Space Chair participated in a workshop organized at the Collège de France by Périg Pitrou, anthropologist
Thinking about space differently: about the book Otherwhere Ethnography
How can anthropologists study outer space?This is the question posed by Perig Pitrou (CNRS, Collège de France, PSL University) and
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