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Launching Europe:
An Ethnography of European Cooperation in Space Science
Stacia E. Zabusky

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: Multiple Cooperations3
1The Study of Cooperation: Theoretical Issues17
2The European Space Agency and the Structure of Cooperation47
3The Practice of Cooperation: Working Together on Space Science Missions69
4Struggling with Diversity: The Social and Cultural Dynamics of Working Together103
5Evasion and Responsibility: The Politics of Working Together125
6Existential Worries: Excitement and Boredom in the Experience of Working Together153
7Working Together Transformed: The Production of Technology and Cooperation179
Epilogue: Sacred Cooperation and the Dreams of Modernity196
Notes221
References247
Index259

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