Resonant worlds: Cultivating proximal encounters in planetary science.
ABSTRACT Planetary scientists are adept at producing knowledge about objects that are far removed from their lived experience of place and time. Sometimes, they overcome this distance by positioning Earth as a planet that can stand for other worlds. Encountering Earth becomes an encounter with anoth...
| Publicado en: | American Ethnologist Vol. 44; no. 1; pp. 131 - 143 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Feb2017
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