Space in the Tropics: From Convicts to Rockets in French Guiana
Space in the Tropics: From Convicts to Rockets in French Guiana
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热带太空：法属圭亚那从囚犯到火箭
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10.2307/3985700
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发表时间：
2002
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Peter Redfield
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Peter Redfield
火箭轰鸣着进入太空--携带着世界上大约一半的商业卫星--来自同一个南美沿海雨林，罪犯曾经在臭名昭著的魔鬼岛上服刑。《热带空间》之所以引人入胜，是因为人类学家彼得·雷德菲尔德（Peter Redfield）能够从法属圭亚那的这两个截然不同的欧洲项目中汲取关于自然与文化交叉点的思想。在将法欧合作的阿丽亚娜火箭计划与早期的刑罚实验进行比较时，雷德菲尔德将罗宾逊·克鲁索的神话、19世纪的监狱改革、德雷福斯事件、热带医学、战后对外层空间的探索、卫星技术、发展和生态旅游与地方相联系，并将这个特定的地方纳入更大的扩展系统。在研究阿丽亚娜计划的更广泛背景时，他认为必须在更大的流离失所生态中理解技术和自然，并提出了边缘在理解现代生活轨迹中的重要性。
Rockets roar into space--bearing roughly half the world's commercial satellites--from the same South American coastal rainforest where convicts once did time on infamous Devil's Island. What makes Space in the Tropics enthralling is anthropologist Peter Redfield's ability to draw from these two disparate European projects in French Guiana a gleaming web of ideas about the intersections of nature and culture. In comparing the Franco-European Ariane rocket program with the earlier penal experiment, Redfield connects the myth of Robinson Crusoe, nineteenth-century prison reform, the Dreyfus Affair, tropical medicine, postwar exploration of outer space, satellite technology, development, and ecotourism with a focus on place, and the incorporation of this particular place into greater extended systems. Examining the wider context of the Ariane program, he argues that technology and nature must be understood within a greater ecology of displacement and makes a case for the importance of margins in understanding the trajectories of modern life.