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Author Zabusky, Stacia E., 1959-

Title Launching Europe : an ethnography of European cooperation in space science / Stacia E. Zabusky
Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1995]
©1995

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 261 pages)
Series Princeton paperbacks
Princeton paperbacks.
Contents Book Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents
Summary In 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). Zabus
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-257) and index
Notes English
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Subject Astronautics -- Europe -- International cooperation
Astronautics -- International cooperation
Ethnic relations
SUBJECT Europe -- Ethnic relations
Subject Europe
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1400813956
9781400813957
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9781400821600
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