First Space Colony: What Political System Could We Expect?
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F21%3A10427327" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/21:10427327 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=1hUCGvpgqr" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=1hUCGvpgqr</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.spacepol.2021.101426" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.spacepol.2021.101426</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
First Space Colony: What Political System Could We Expect?
Original language description
The article argues that near-future space colonization missions exceeding a certain number of colonists raise new questions about social organization and colony governance challenges. Although small crewed missions can be governed by a mission commander, dozens of people living on another celestial body will naturally create a community, and hundreds will require intentional implementation of a governance model as such a colony will become a society. We assess in detail the possible implications of four theoretical approaches to space colony governance that reflect current debates in the spaceflight community: governance by science and engineering, libertarianism, national exceptionalism, and cosmopolitanism. Although we openly argue for cosmopolitan ideas to be part of any space-related governance questions, we build the argument on Ulrich Beck's thoughts that a cosmopolitan outlook should become part of our current territorially divided national identities, as both are mutually constituted. The article shows how each governance approach has certain drivers capable of proceeding with space colonization, while each of them is insufficient on its own to provide a sustainable future without a possible collapse of the colony. In the end, we introduce a consistent cloud of thoughts raising various dilemmas, to trigger a debate over particular models that space colonies could be governed by, rather than proposing a complex universal governance model. It helps us to demonstrate why cosmopolitan ideas are so important, while the energy found in business, national exceptionalism, and scientific ingenuity is also necessary
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/TL01000181" target="_blank" >TL01000181: A multidisciplinary analysis of planetary defense from asteroids as the key national policy ensuring further flourishing and prosperity of humankind both on Earth and in Space</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Space Policy
ISSN
0265-9646
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
56
Issue of the periodical within the volume
May
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
1-10
UT code for WoS article
000651588600008
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85104815811