Globalization and Technocapitalism

The Political Economy of Corporate Power and Technological Domination

Luis Suarez-Villa (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

250 Seiten

2012
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-4094-3915-8 (ISBN)

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Considers the global reach of a capitalist era, exploring the nature of 'technocapitalism' as grounded in various forms of accumulation, commodification, and corporate organization. This book also explores the manner in which globalization acquires fresh contextual features that become central to the macro-social dynamics of the 21st century.

Globalization and Technocapitalism considers the global reach of a new capitalist era, exploring the nature of 'technocapitalism' as grounded in new forms of accumulation, commodification, and corporate organization. As technological creativity, corporate research, and talent flows become more important than ever, this book explores the manner in which globalization acquires new contextual features that will become central to the macro-social dynamics of the twenty-first century. It thus sheds light on the resultant growth in global inequalities and more intrusive forms of global domination that are grounded in emerging sectors, such as nanotechnology, biotechnology and its diverse fields, such as genomics, synthetic bioengineering, bioinformatics and biopharmacology, and related advances in computing and telecommunications. A rigorous examination of developments in contemporary capitalism as driven by the forces of globalization, Globalization and Technocapitalism will be of interest to scholars working in the fields of social and political theory, international political economy, political philosophy, science and technology studies and globalization.

Luis Suarez-Villa is Professor of Social Ecology, of Planning Policy and Design, and of Technology Studies at the University of California, Irvine, USA.

Introduction; 1: Technocapitalism on a Global Scale; 2: Fast Accumulation; 3: Intangible Global Commodities; 4: The New Global Corporatism; 5: The Haves and the Have-nots; 6: Illusive Democracy; 7: Is There Any Alternative?

Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	589 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
ISBN-10	1-4094-3915-1 / 1409439151
ISBN-13	978-1-4094-3915-8 / 9781409439158
Zustand	Neuware