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Overview"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." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Sami Moisio (University of Helsinki) , Prof. Ugo Rossi (Gran Sasso Science Institute)Publisher: Agenda Publishing Imprint: Agenda Publishing Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.40cm ISBN: 9781788214513ISBN 10: 178821451 Pages: 192 Publication Date: 18 July 2024 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction: neo-feudalism or new monopoly capital? Part I Macro-political economy of the urban field 1. The rise of the corporatized state 2. The urban field and the strategic urbanization of the state Part II Micro-political economy of the urban field 3. Labour 4. Human capital 5. Startups 6. Forms of life Coda: the value of the urban fieldReviewsCombining 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. -- Jamie Peck, Professor of Geography and Distinguished University Scholar, University of British Columbia In a much needed critique of techno-monopoly capitalism and its urban ramifications, The Urban Field offers an astute political economy that parses out the role of tech companies and the state upon an array of affective social and political worlds. Drawing upon an array of theoretical interventions around the devastating powers of technocapitalism, Moisio and Rossi also offer their own unique perspectives to the urban field – a space which encompasses a range of domains including labour, human capital, startup economies and governmentality. Not only does this book illuminate how techno-monopolism functions in the day-to-day, but it also importantly helps us understand how particular moments of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have led us to this contemporary conjuncture. -- Erin McElroy, University of Washington, author of Silicon Valley Imperialism: Techno Fantasies and Frictions in Postsocialist Times 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. -- Jamie Peck, Professor of Geography and Distinguished University Scholar, University of British Columbia Author InformationSami 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). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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