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@phdthesis{william2026a,
  title = {More-than-terrestrial diplomacy: modular politics of the International Space Station},
  year = {2026},
  month = dec,
  organization = {Department of Geography},
  school = {University College London},
  doi = {https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10220179},
  author = {Stewart, William},
  booktitle = {},
  howpublished = {More-than-terrestrial diplomacy argues that the international space station is not just a symbol of cooperation, but a more-than-terrestrial diplomatic assemblage. the thesis traces how law, infrastructure, modularity, docking systems, atmosphere, and affect help sustain collaboration in orbit even when politics on earth are unstable. its central claim is simple enough to travel: the iss allows cooperation without consensus.‘more-than-terrestrial’... refers to the entanglement of material, political, and affective relations between Earth and outer space that challenge the binary of on-Earth and off-Earth. This framing foregrounds the continuity between the terrestrial and orbital environments and infrastructures and the ways in which outer space is shaped by, and shapes, life on Earth. The ISS, while located off-Earth, remains intimately connected to Earth in material, political, and affective ways. Further, as humanity increasingly incorporates orbital infrastructures and extends its sensing capacities beyond Earth, the materiality of the Earth itself becomes more-than-terrestrial (p. 20)},
  month_numeric = {12}
}