Global Political Economy in the Information Age: Power and Inequality

by Youngs; Gillian

• ISBN13: 9780415384070
• ISBN10: 0415384079
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2007-01-05
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

We are living in an unparalleled era of globalization; a world of Internet connectivity and emerging markets in which borders are becoming ever more permeable and trade increasingly global.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xv
Abbreviations and Acronyms	p. xvii
Introduction: twentieth- to twenty-first-century imaginings and realities - a long view of information society	p. 1
Technology and change: continuities and discontinuities	p. 3
Knowledge and power: production and consumption	p. 7
From geospatial to sociospatial GPE: within and beyond the states/markets framework	p. 10
Industrial and electronic utopias and ghettos: power and inequality in the information age	p. 14
Time/space frameworks	p. 21
States and markets: understanding geospatial time	p. 23
The political economy of locatedness: national economies and currencies	p. 24
The pre-eminent dollar	p. 27
The euro as historic challenge?	p. 30
The symbology of fixity: geospatiality	p. 33
Virtual realities: exploring sociospatiality	p. 40
Technology: thinking inside and outside the box	p. 41
Virtual or real: overcoming a crucial binary trap	p. 45
From cityscapes to cyberscapes: the new world of digital economy	p. 49
Cybercitizens to cyborgs: some micro considerations	p. 53
The political economy of time: historical time, speed and mobility	p. 58
From clock time to digital time: speed as the new imperative	p. 66
The new global political economy of access: neoliberal ideology and universal aims	p. 69
Moving through time and space: the new economics of mobility	p. 73
Borders and inequality	p. 75
Transcendence and communication	p. 77
Vertical communication, globalization and new public sphere issues	p. 77
Horizontal communication: sociospatial versus geospatial contexts	p. 81
The political economy of interactivity: state and market in the virtual sphere	p. 90
Inequality as driver	p. 92
Inequality as long-term trend: exclusion over inclusion	p. 94
The realities of inequalities: beyond neoliberalism?	p. 105
Embedded patriarchy: feminism and inequality in the Internet era	p. 108
Global gender inequalities	p. 109
Time and the experience of it	p. 110
The gender matrix of time and embodied political economy	p. 112
The rationalizing of time and patriarchal constructions of time	p. 115
Time in the service of others and gendered technologies	p. 119
Women on the Net (WoN) and women's online empowerment	p. 122
Technofutures and power	p. 125
Complex hegemony in the twenty-first century: power and inequality	p. 127
US hegemony in the information age	p. 128
Inequality and leapfrogging in the knowledge economy	p. 133
Mediated political economy: geospatial and sociospatial contexts	p. 137
Conclusion: Contradictions between connectivity and inequality	p. 143
Notes	p. 152
Bibliography	p. 165
Index	p. 179
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