Browsing by Subject "Space"
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Minor Mobilities: A Historical Analysis of Little Saigon through Oral History
(2022)After the Vietnam War ended in 1975 many Southern Vietnamese were displaced and forced to relocate. Many of those refugees settled into an area located in Orange County, California and for the past fifty years have worked ... -
Politics of Tranquility: Religious Mobilities and Material Engagements of Tibetan Buddhist Nuns in Post-Mao China
(2015)This dissertation ethnographically examines the lives of Tibetan Buddhist nuns in Yachen, a mega-sized Tibetan Buddhist encampment in eastern Tibet that emerged in the 1980s and is now a leading center of Tibetan Buddhist ... -
Preparing for the Next Frontier: Considering a Modern Version of the Outer Space Treaty
(2019-12-06)The international treaty system that governs activities in space was designed decades ago to prevent inappropriate actions by government actors. In recent years, this system has started to fall behind the growth in privately ... -
Three Essays about Problems of Space in the Early Modern Period
(2022)Given that we cannot perceive space via the senses, how do we arrive at the representation of space in the first place? Why do we tend to attribute certain properties to space – for instance, that it is infinite, empty, ... -
To Infinity and Beyond: In Support of US-Proposed Space Principles of Conduct (SPoC)
(2013-05-30)This paper takes the form of a mock Presidential memo drafted for President Obama's 2012 transition. It outlines the current status of space policy and weaponization, and argues that the U.S. propose an international Code ...
