The Urban Field - Capital and Governmentality in the Age of Techno-Monopoly

This book is a critical examination of the relationship between capital and the state, and the generation of an urban governmentality centered on the economization of knowledge and technology. A rethinking of the role of contemporary urbanism in today's knowledge-intensive capitalism.

About the author

Sami Moisio is Professor of Spatial Planning and Policy in the Department of Geosciences and Geography at the University of Helsinki. His research interests include state spatial transformation, political geography of economic geographies, and urban geography. His recent book, Geopolitics of the Knowledge-Based Economy won the 2019 Regional Studies Association Book Award.

Summary

A critical examination of the relationship between capital and the state, and the generation of an urban governmentality centred on the economization of knowledge and technology. A rethinking of the role of contemporary urbanism in today’s knowledge-intensive capitalism.

Product details

• Authors: Sami Moisio, Sami (University of Helsinki) Moisio, Prof. Ugo (Gran Sasso Science Institute) Rossi, Professor Ugo (Gran Sasso Science Institute) Rossi, Ugo Rossi
• Publisher: Agenda Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.07.2024
• EAN: 9781788214513
• ISBN: 978-1-78821-451-3
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 235 mm x 156 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 300 g
• Series: Urban Worlds
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries