ETHNO-ISS: An Ethnography of an Extra-terrestrial Society: the International Space Station

Project Information

Ethno-ISS

Grant agreement ID: 833135

DOI

10.3030/833135

Project closed

EC signature date 4 September 2019

Start date 1 October 2019

End date 30 September 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 475 251,00

EU contribution

€ 2 475 251,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
United Kingdom

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Publications

Book chapters (6)

Chapter 3. ‘Yesterday’s Coffee Is Tomorrow’s Coffee’: The Body, Human Waste and Off-World Living

Author(s): Aaron Parkhurst, David Jeevendrampillai
Published in: Matter Out of Place, 2026, Page(s) 56-72
Publisher: Berghahn Books
DOI: 10.1515/9781805396857-004

Extra-terrestrial Methods: Towards an ethnography of the ISS

Author(s): Victor Buchli
Published in: Lineages and advancements in material culture studies: perspectives from UCL, 2021
Publisher: Routledge

The Restaurant at the End of the World

Author(s): Aaron Parkhurst, David Jeevendrampillai
Published in: Otherwhere Ethnography, Issue 04/06/25, 2025, Page(s) 130-148
Publisher: Oxford University PressNew York, NY
DOI: 10.1093/9780197790885.003.0008

Transcendence, bodies, and estranged labour in outer space

Author(s): Giles Bunch
Published in: Exploring Ethnography of Outer Space, Issue 1st Edition, 2025, Page(s) 21-42, ISBN 978-1-003-43795-6
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.4324/9781003437956-2

Artifacts of Attunement

Author(s): Victor Buchli
Published in: Otherwhere Ethnography, Issue 04/06/25, 2025, Page(s) 170-187
Publisher: Oxford University PressNew York, NY
DOI: 10.1093/9780197790885.003.0010

An Ethnography of an Extraterrestrial Society

Author(s): David Jeevendrampillai, Victor Buchli, Aaron Parkhurst, Adryon Kozel, Giles Bunch, Jenia Gorbanenko, Makar Tereshin
Published in: The Routledge Handbook of Social Studies of Outer Space, Issue 1ST Edition, 2023, Page(s) 413-426, ISBN 9781003280507
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.4324/9781003280507-38

Monographic books (1)

Exploring Ethnography of Outer Space

Author(s): Jenia Gorbanenko, David (Jeeva) Jeevendrampillai, Adryon Kozel
Published in: 2025
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.4324/9781003437956

Peer reviewed articles (6)

Towards an anthropology of gravity: Emotion and embodiment in microgravity environments

Author(s): Aaron Parkhurst, David Jeevendrampillai
Published in: Emotion, Space and Society, Issue 35, 2020, Page(s) 100680, ISSN 1755-4586
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.emospa.2020.100680

A Working Typology of Transcendence in Anthropology

Author(s): Jenia Gorbanenko
Published in: Religion and Society, Issue 15, 2025, Page(s) 109-122, ISSN 2150-9298
Publisher: Berghahn Books
DOI: 10.3167/arrs.2024.150108

Games, work, and human spaceflight: Ethnographic encounters with flight controller training at the European Astronaut Centre

Author(s): Giles Bunch
Published in: Ephemera Theory & Politics in organization, Issue 24(3), 2024, Page(s) 49-72, ISSN 1473-2866
Publisher: Independant

Making a Martian Home

Author(s): David Jeevendrampillai Aaron Parkhurst
Published in: Home Cultures, 2022, ISSN 1740-6315
Publisher: Berg
DOI: 10.1080/17406315.2021.1962136

Apophatic love, contagion, and surveillance: Orthodox Christian responses to the global pandemic

Author(s): Timothy Carroll, Nicholas Lackenby, Jenia Gorbanenko
Published in: Anthropology & Medicine, Issue 29, 2023, Page(s) 430-445, ISSN 1364-8470
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/13648470.2022.2080180

Far away, so close: A collective ethnography around remoteness

Author(s): Francisco Martinez, Eeva Berglund, Rachel Harkness, Jeeva Jeevendrampillai, Marjorie Murray
Published in: Entanglements: Experiments in Multimodal Ethnography, Issue Vol. 5, Issue 1/2, 2021, Page(s) 246-283, ISSN 2516-5860
Publisher: Independant