Articles | Volume 80, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-80-241-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-80-241-2025
Intervention
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26 Aug 2025
Intervention |  | 26 Aug 2025

Space and the planet: taking the extra-planetary seriously in planetary thinking

Julia Lossau

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Short summary
In light of recent developments in space exploration, this intervention engages with the relations between the planetary and the extra-planetary. Advocating for the explicit consideration of the latter in critical planetary thinking, the extra-planetary is conceptualised as imagined-and-real counter-space. As such, it is literally not for humans and certainly not for the very frontier expansionist and extractivist practices that have contributed to the socio-ecological crises on planet Earth.
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