Spin-off from outer space: ecopolitic and quality of life

• Grant number: 10/16276-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: September 01, 2011
• End date: August 31, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Political Science - Political Theory
• Principal Investigator: Edson Passetti
• Grantee: Leandro Alberto de Paiva Siqueira
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências Sociais. Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project proposes a research about space exploration and the spin-offs that derivefrom it to the government of life. It is assumed that in the last 50 years of space conquest, beyond "benefits" for economic development and techno-science, space exploration permited also the construction of new fields of possibilities and schemes of truths that resize the art of government human and life on the planet. Under this perspective, this study aims to contribute to the problematization of the emergency control societies and ecopolitic, investigating its sidereal origin. Search still analyzing the impacts of space technologies for improving the quality of life and management of human, by way of modulation of (in)dividual. (AU)