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This book explores the interconnected ways in which the control of knowledge has become central to the exercise of political, economic, and social power. Building on the work of International Political Economy scholar Susan Strange, this multidisciplinary volume features experts from political science, anthropology, law, criminology, women's and gender studies, and Science and Technology Studies, who consider how the control of knowledge is shaping our everyday lives. From "weaponised copyright" as a censorship tool, to the battle over control of the internet's "guts," to the effects of state surveillance at the Mexico-U.S. border, this book offers a coherent way to understand the nature of power in the twenty-first century.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Taking Knowledge Seriously: Toward and International Political Economy Theory of Knowledge Governance.- Chapter 2: A Strange Approach to Information, Network, Sharing, and Platform Societies.- Chapter 3: Hyperscalers, geopolitics and reshaping the body of global internet infrastructure.- Chapter 4: Precarious Ownership of the Internet of Things in the Age of Data.- Chapter 5: The intellectual property economy at an inflection point.- Chapter 6: Susan Sell s Political Economy: Power, Pragmatism, and the Possibilities for 21st Century Capitalism.- Chapter 7: Weaponising Copyright: Cultural Governance and Regulating Speech in the Knowledge Economy.- Chapter 8: Disinformation and Resistance in the Surveillance of Indigenous Protesters.- Chapter 9: Surveillance in the Name of Governance: Aadhaar as a Fix for Leaking Systems in India.- Chapter 10: A Border Seeping in All Directions: Technologies of Separation Along the U.S.-Mexico Border in Ambos Nogales.- Chapter 11: Global data extractivism and the regulation of Artificial Intelligence in Latin America.- Chapter 12: Conservation, Knowledge and Anti-colonial Visions of Co-existence.
About the author
Blayne Haggart is a Professor of Political Science at Brock University, St. Catharines, Canada.
Natasha Tusikov is an Associate Professor of Criminology at York University, Toronto, Canada.
Kathryn Henne is a Professor and Director of the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) at the Australian National University.
Summary
This book explores the interconnected ways in which the control of knowledge has become central to the exercise of political, economic, and social power. Building on the work of International Political Economy scholar Susan Strange, this multidisciplinary volume features experts from political science, anthropology, law, criminology, women’s and gender studies, and Science and Technology Studies, who consider how the control of knowledge is shaping our everyday lives. From “weaponised copyright” as a censorship tool, to the battle over control of the internet’s “guts,” to the effects of state surveillance at the Mexico–U.S. border, this book offers a coherent way to understand the nature of power in the twenty-first century.
