LEADER 04376nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910780048703321 005 20210917030644.0 010 $a1-4008-0889-8 010 $a1-282-75216-2 010 $a1-4008-2160-6 010 $a9786612752162 010 $a1-4008-1395-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400821600 035 $a(CKB)111056486502482 035 $a(EBL)581673 035 $a(OCoLC)700688726 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000189718 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11199387 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000189718 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10165488 035 $a(PQKB)10240626 035 $a(OCoLC)52259404 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse35990 035 $a(DE-B1597)446120 035 $a(OCoLC)979756948 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400821600 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL581673 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10031944 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL275216 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC581673 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486502482 100 $a19940729d1995 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLaunching Europe$b[electronic resource] $ean ethnography of European cooperation in space science /$fStacia E. Zabusky 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc1995 215 $a1 online resource (276 p.) 225 1 $aPrinceton paperbacks 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-691-02972-5 311 0 $a0-691-03370-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [247]-257) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tTables --$tPreface --$tAcknowledgments --$tAbbreviations --$tIntroduction: Multiple Cooperations --$tOne. The Study of Cooperation: Theoretical Issues --$tTwo. The European Space Agency and the Structure of Cooperation --$tThree. The Practice of Cooperation: Working Together on Space Science Missions --$tFour. Struggling with Diversity: The Social and Cultural Dynamics of Working Together --$tFive. Evasion and Responsibility: The Politics of Working Together --$tSix. Existential Worries: Excitement and Boredom in the Experience of Working Together --$tSeven. Working Together Transformed: The Production of Technology and Cooperation --$tEpilogue: Sacred Cooperation and the Dreams of Modernity --$tNotes --$tReferences --$tIndex 330 $aIn this first ethnographic study of the European Space Agency, Stacia Zabusky explores the complex processes involved in cooperation on space science missions in the contemporary context of European integration. Zabusky argues that the practice of cooperation does not depend on a homogenizing of interests in a bland unity. Instead, it consists of ongoing negotiation of and conflict over often irreconcilable differences. In this case, those differences are put into play by both technical and political divisions of labor (in particular, those of big science and of European integration). Zabusky shows how participants on space science missions make use of these differences, particularly those manifest in identities of work and of nationality, as they struggle together not only to produce space satellites but also to create European integration. She argues that the dialectical processes of production include and depend on conflict and contradiction to maintain energy and excitement and thus to be successful. Participants in these processes are not, however, working only to produce tangible success. In her epilogue, Zabusky argues that European space science missions can be interpreted as sacred journeys undertaken collectively, and that these journeys are part of a fundamental cultural project of modernity: the legitimation of and aspiration for purity. She suggests, finally, that this project characterizes not only the institution of technoscience but those of bureaucracy and nationalism as well. 410 0$aPrinceton paperbacks. 606 $aAstronautics$zEurope$xInternational cooperation 607 $aEurope$xEthnic relations 615 0$aAstronautics$xInternational cooperation. 676 $a629.4/094 700 $aZabusky$b Stacia E.$f1959-$01569473 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780048703321 996 $aLaunching Europe$93842406 997 $aUNINA