Space Feminism, Exploration, Exploitation and Ethics

Szocik, Konrad; Abylkasymova, Rakhat

Space Feminism, Exploration, Exploitation and Ethics

Abstract

This chapter proposes a possible feminist approach to thinking about the meaningfulness of our future in space. We want to show that adopting the main feminist categories and concepts such as oppression, exclusion or exploitation allows us to look at the future exploration and exploitation of space in a skeptical and critical way. Through the lens of feminism, we expose the nationalist, militarist, capitalist and colonialist mechanisms underlying space exploration, as well as thinking about the future human presence in space. Finally, we suggest that there are good reasons to abandon space exploration motivated by the aforementioned mechanisms that reinforce domination and exploitation.

Keywords

capitalism exploitation feminism militarism nationalism

Citation

Konrad Szocik, Rakhat Abylkasymova. 2025. Space Feminism, Exploration, Exploitation and Ethics, In B. Anderson (Ed.), Space, Philosophy and Ethics. Vernon Press.

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https://open.icm.edu.pl/handle/123456789/25597

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