Urban Field

Capital and Governmentality in the Age of Techno-Monopoly

AvSami Moisio,Ugo Rossi

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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Beskrivning

We live in an era of techno-monopoly power in which technocapitalism - through ubiquitous digital platforms - has colonized both the internet and key aspects of our everyday lives. Cities and larger urban and metropolitan environments have provided a fertile ground for the rise and rapid growth of this power. In The Urban Field, Moisio and Rossi reveal an urban monopoly capitalism supported by the “corporatized state”. They critically examine the relationship between capital and the state, and the generation of an urban governmentality centred on the economization of knowledge and technology in four key sites: labour, human capital, startups and forms of life. Moisio and Rossi contend that, ultimately, the urban field is a constitutively political construct that can be enacted in a different way, no longer as a value-extraction machine but as a collective endeavour aiming at redefining established modes of economic value creation.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-07-18
Mått:156 x 234 x 14 mm
Vikt:300 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Urban Worlds
Antal sidor:192
Förlag:Agenda Publishing
ISBN:9781788214513

Utforska kategorier

Geografi inom Naturvetenskap och teknik
Digital ekonomi inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap

Mer om författaren

Sami Moisio is Professor of Spatial Planning and Policy in the Department of Geosciences and Geography, and Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of Helsinki. His recent book, Geopolitics of the Knowledge-Based Economy won the 2019 Regional Studies Association Book Award.Ugo Rossi is Professor of Political and Economic Geography at the Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila. He is the author of Cities in Global Capitalism (2017).

Recensioner i media

Combining innovative theorizing with radical critique, Sami Moisio and Ugo Rossi rethink the strategic role of cities, the stakes in transformative politics, and the meaning of the urban field in the era of technocapitalism.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: Neo-feudalism or new monopoly capital?Part I Macro-political economy of the urban field1 The rise of the corporatized stateIntroductionThe urban technological paradigm The competition state The corporatized state Conclusion2 The urban field and the strategic urbanization of the stateIntroductionThe urban field On the “national” urban field The urban field in the age of national competitivenessDesigning the Finnish nation-state as a digital space ConclusionPart II Micro-political economy of the urban field3 LabourIntroductionLabour as source of economic valueExploiting labour power in techno-capitalismThe blurring of rent and profitThe contested control of the urban fieldConclusion4 Human capitalIntroductionThe rise and rise of human capital theoryThe early stages of human capital theoryRedefining the role of the stateHuman capital’s new clothes: endogenous growth theoryHuman capital and the housing crisisThe human capital dystopia is yet to comeConclusion5 StartupsIntroductionThe world of startupsStartup economy as a constituent of the urban fieldExtracting economic value through the urban fieldThe corporatized state in the startup worldThe story of Wolt as an urban startup companyThe implicit role of the state in the valuation processConclusion6 Forms of lifeIntroductionConstituting the urban experience economyNaples: Becoming a mass-tourism city Sophia Loren and the politics of the eventStaging the open cityThe cult of MaradonaConclusionCoda: The value of the urban field