William Stewart, PhD

++political geographer++facilitator++worldbuilding++speculations++

Teaching Practice & Pedagogy


framework for understanding diplomacy, infrastructure, and politics beyond Earth.


There are a few ways into this work.

If you want the full argument
Start with More-than-terrestrial diplomacy: modular politics of the International Space Station. This is the thesis. It is where I argue that the ISS is not just a symbol of cooperation, but a more-than-terrestrial diplomatic assemblage: a segmented, interdependent, continuously inhabited machine that helps sustain collaboration in orbit even when politics on Earth are unstable.

If you want the shorter version
Read More-than-Human Space Diplomacy: Assembling Internationalism in Orbit. This is the quickest route into the claim that diplomacy in outer space is materially assembled rather than merely declared.

If you are interested in policy, governance, or strategy
Begin with the thesis and then go to Publications. The work is useful for thinking about cooperation under pressure, modular politics, legal-diplomatic infrastructure, technological zones, and what it means to build systems that allow cooperation without consensus.

If you are coming from the speculative, public, or creative side
Go to Projects. This is where the work opens out into collaborative and public-facing projects on politics, infrastructure, environment, and off-Earth imaginaries.

If you want to know how I teach
Go to Teaching. My teaching moves across human geography, environmental geopolitics, fieldwork, qualitative methods, space and society, and outreach work that uses outer space to think about the conditions that make life possible anywhere.

If you want the shortest version
I study how cooperation survives in hostile environments, how infrastructures become political, and how outer space is governed, contested, and imagined.

If you want the full record
See Publications, Projects, Teaching, and CV.


Work with me
I work across research, writing, teaching, public speaking, and collaboration on outer space politics, diplomacy, infrastructure, and speculative futures.
 
Speaking
I give talks on outer space politics, the international space station, diplomacy and infrastructure, environmental geopolitics, and the futures of orbit, the moon, and beyond.

Teaching
I teach across human geography, geopolitics, qualitative methods, fieldwork, materiality, and space and society. I also design and deliver sessions for non-specialist and public-facing audiences.

Writing and Commentary
I write on diplomacy, infrastructure, outer space governance, and geopolitical imagination. I am available for essays, commentary, interviews, and media conversations.

Research and Collaboration
I collaborate on academic, interdisciplinary, and public-facing projects, including workshops, events, speculative and creative research, and commissioned work connected to outer space, infrastructure, politics, and futures.
 
If you are looking for someone who can bring together rigorous research, clear argument, and a distinctive perspective on off-earth politics, get in touch.