Astroenvironmentalism as SF

Abstract The New Space Age is awash with discourses about space colonization and resource exploitation, these happily coexist the age-old curiosity-driven question, “Are we alone in universe?” Astrobiology addresses this question and, at same time, codifies knowledge useful for protecting our planet other celestial bodies from harmful contamination. This article critically examines astroenvironmentalism as discussed within astrobiology attempts to rescue it becoming a principle of border creation otherworldly ecologies. To do so, merges visions images feminist postcolonial decolonial theory, STS, science fiction, reflects on enduring colonial tropes that provide building blocks current outer space. cartographic imagination play much-debated frontier narrative animates concept planetary parks. These have gained increased popularity mechanism environmental protection space, but important note how they entertain settler future legitimize claims territorial property extraction. In dialogue contrapuntal codification form transplanetary environmentalism, traces Lynn Margulis’s cosmic symbiosis, Donna Haraway’s sympoiesis, Ursula K. Le Guin’s Word World Is Forest (1976) intersect concerns astrobiological knowledge. Crucially, enable blurring three types borders: between fiction; inside outside; life matter. border-crossing can be generative process creating more-than-human relationalities beyond Earth-centric geographies.