ABSTRACT
By questioning tacit social scientific understandings of Earth as the unidimensional ground of social life, the ethnographers in this volume convey their multidimensional sensibilities of space, time, and relations. They show that doing ethnographies of outer spaces does not necessarily require new qualitative methods, but it does require ethnographers to perceive the spaces differently. They can do so by adopting an interpositional sensibility, along with their interlocutors, that they are simultaneously multiply positioned within spatial relations that include but aren’t limited to planet Earth. In addition, they can adapt a contemplative conjoined-body-mind sensibility that allows them to actually perceive the simultaneously multiworldly experiences of their interlocutors.
