GCSJ seminar series: Space in common? Property, waste and their colonial lives in the cosmos

Speakers: Dr Alessandra Marino

This talk focuses on the politics of use and pollution (due to both light and debris) of the night sky as an environmental common and discusses the fraught postcolonial dynamics of accessing and occupying orbits. It establishes a dialogue between the political ecology of space assets and the interdisciplinary critical tradition unearthing the colonial legacies that structure environmental, sociolegal and political relations. This dialogue shows that property is firmly part of the colonial matrix underpinning the cosmic expansion of capitalism.