The development of EU space policy and its two main programmes, Galileo and Copernicus, has necessitated a parallel process of legitimization of this policy. Popularization, defined as the simplification of a policy in order to be made accessible to the masses and accepted by them, has been a core legitimising tool in the hands of the European Commission, with regular help from experts/industrialists, or 'organic intellectuals'. After establishing popularization conceptually, the analysis illustrates instances of both expert-based and non-expert-based popularization at the Brussels level. It concludes that the process of popularization conceals the most controversial aspects of both Galileo and Copernicus while also producing a 'general interest' that glues together a disparate set of social forces, in favour of EU space programmes and their manufacturers - the European space industry.


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    Title :

    'All u need is space': Popularizing EU space policy


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2017




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English



    Classification :

    BKL:    55.88 Luftverkehr, Raumfahrt / 89.99 Politologie: Sonstiges




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