Global Political Economy in the Information Age Power and inequality 1st Edition by Gillian Youngs 0415384079 9780415384070

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ISBN 10: 0415384079

ISBN 13: 9780415384070

Author: Gillian Youngs

Introduction: 20th-21st century imaginings and realities Section 1: Time/Space Frameworks 1. States and Markets: understanding geospatial time 2. Virtual Realities: exploring sociospatiality 3. The Political Economy of Time: historical time, speed and mobility Section 2: Borders and Inequality 4. Transcendence and Communication 5. Inequality as Driver 6. Embedding Patriarchy: feminism and inequality in the Internet era Section 3: Technofutures and Power 7. Complex Hegemony in the 21st Century: power and inequality Conclusion

Global Political Economy in the Information Age Power and inequality 1st Table of contents: 

Part I Time/space frameworks

1 States and markets

The political economy of locatedness: national economies and currencies

The pre-eminent dollar

The euro as historic challenge?

The symbology of fixity: geospatiality

2 Virtual realities

Technology: thinking inside and outside the box

Virtual or real: overcoming a crucial binary trap

From cityscapes to cyberscapes: the new world of digital economy

Cybercitizens to cyborgs: some micro considerations

3 The political economy of time

From clock time to digital time: speed as the new imperative

The new global political economy of access: neoliberal ideology and universal aims

Moving through time and space: the new economics of mobility

Part II Borders and inequality

4 Transcendence and communication

Vertical communication, globalization and new public sphere issues

Horizontal communication: sociospatial versus geospatial contexts

The political economy of interactivity: state and market in the virtual sphere

5 Inequality as driver

Inequality as long-term trend: exclusion over inclusion

The realities of inequalities: beyond neoliberalism?

6 Embedded patriarchy

Global gender inequalities

Time and the experience of it

The gender matrix of time and embodied political economy

The rationalizing of time and patriarchal constructions of time

Time in the service of others and gendered technologies

Women on the Net (WoN) and women’s online empowerment

Part III Technofutures and power

7 Complex hegemony in the twenty-first century

US hegemony in the information age

Inequality and leapfrogging in the knowledge economy

Mediated political economy: geospatial and sociospatial contexts

Conclusion

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