The following are some of the most significant achievements of the ETHNO-ISS project to date.
The project established COSS (The Centre for Outerspace Studies) at the Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL with project member D. Jeevendrampillai as director. COSS has advanced the position of the social sciences, arts and humanities within the wider intellectual community of space researchers at UCL and beyond, forming an integral part of the UCL Space Domain of which the PI is co-director and advancing the interdisciplinary goals of the ESA_lab@UCL. In addition, the project has established a new book series on the anthropology of space with Routledge Publishers under the editorialship of the PI: ETHNO-ISS: Ethnographies of Low Earth Orbit. Following on from these achievements the ETHNO-ISS team has produced a number of academic publications listed below:
1) 2020 – Buchli, V., ‘Extra-terrestrial methods: towards an ethnography of the ISS’, in T. Carroll et al. Lineages and Advancements in Material Culture Studies: Perspectives from UCL Anthropology, London: Bloomsbury
2) 2021, Jeevendrampillai, D., Parkhurst, A. Making A Martian Home: Finding Humans On Mars Through Utopian Architecture. Home Cultures, doi:10.1080/17406315.2021.1962136
3) 2020, Parkhurst, A., Jeevendrampillai, D. Towards an anthropology of gravity: emotion and embodiment in microgravity environments. Emotion, Space and Society, 35 100680. doi:10.1016/j.emospa.2020.100680
4) 2022. Extraterrestrial Anthropology. Edited volume A. Parkhurst with D. Jeevendrampillai, in ETHNO-ISS: Ethnographies of Low Earth Orbit, Book Series , V. Buchli Editor, Routledge Publishers. (under contract, and peer reviewed)
In addition the following publications by members of the ETHNO-ISS team have been accepted for publication or are in press at the time of writing with others on the way:
2021 Buchli, V. ‘Artefacts of Attunement’, in Anthropology Off Earth, I. Praet and P. Pitrou eds, Cambridge University Press, (forthcoming)
2022, Parkhurst, A and Jeevendrampillai, D. “The restaurant at the end of the world”. Chapter in Anthropology of Outer Space. Ed. Perig Petrou and Istvan Praet. Cambridge University Press (under contract)
2022, Parkhurst, A., Coffee and Blood: A Brief Anthropological Reading of Tiny Mining on and off-world. V2_Lab for the unstable media. (in press).
2022, Parkhurst, A. Gravity.. In Cosmic ‘Glossary’. Ed, Tamara Alvarez and Alexander Taylor. Society & Space. (in press).
2021, Berglund, E., Harkness, R., Jeevendrampillai, D., Martinez, F. and Murray, M., Far Away, So Close: A Collective Ethnography Around Remoteness, ,Entanglements Journal 4(1) 246-283
2022, Carroll, T., Lackenby N., & Gorbanenko, J., (in press). Apophatic love, contagion, and surveillance: Orthodox Christian responses to the global pandemic, Anthropology & Medicine.
