Information, Technology and Control in a Changing World: Understanding Power Structures in the 21st Century

ISBN-13: 9783030145392 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 317 str.

Blayne Haggart; Kathryn Henne; Natasha Tusikov

Spis treści

Introduction

Blayne Haggart, Kathryn Henne and Natasha Tusikov

Part I: Susan Strange and the 21st Century Knowledge Structure

Taking Knowledge Seriously: Toward an International Political Economy Theory of Knowledge Governance

Blayne Haggart

A Strange Approach to Information, Network, Sharing, and Platform Societies

Sara Bannerman and Angela Orasch

Reflection I

Randall Germain

Part II: Internet Governance and Regulation

Internet Infrastructure and the Persistent Myth of U.S. Hegemony

Dwayne Winseck

Precarious Ownership of the Internet of Things in the Age of Data

Natasha Tusikov

Reflection II

Madeline Carr

Part III: Questions of Truth and Censorship

Weaponising Copyright: Cultural Governance and Regulating Speech in the Knowledge Economy

Debora Halbert

Disinformation and Resistance in the Surveillance of Indigenous Protesters

Jenna Harb and Kathryn Henne

Reflection III

Blayne Haggart

Part IV: Surveillance and Knowledge and/as Control

Surveillance in the Name of Governance: Aadhaar as a Fix for Leaking Systems in India

Kathryn Henne

A Border Seeping in All Directions: Technologies of Separation Along the U.S.-Mexico Border in Ambos Nogales

Allison Fish

Reflection IV

Jennifer Musto

Conclusion: Looking Back, Looking Forward

Natasha Tusikov, Blayne Haggart and Kathryn Henne

O autorze

Blayne Haggart is Associate Professor of Political Science at Brock University, St. Catharines, Canada. A former economist with the Parliament of Canada, his research focuses on intellectual property rights and knowledge governance.

Kathryn Henne holds the Canada Research Chair in Biogovernance, Law and Society at the University of Waterloo, Canada, where she is a fellow of the Balsillie School of International Affairs. She is also Associate Professor at RegNet, the School of Regulation and Global Governance at the Australian National University.

Natasha Tusikov is Assistant Professor of Criminology at York University, Canada. She has also worked as a strategic criminal intelligence analyst and researcher at the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Ottawa.

Blurb

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.

Blayne Haggart is Associate Professor of Political Science at Brock University, St. Catharines, Canada. A former economist with the Parliament of Canada, his research focuses on intellectual property rights and knowledge governance.

Kathryn Henne holds the Canada Research Chair in Biogovernance, Law and Society at the University of Waterloo, Canada, where she is a fellow of the Balsillie School of International Affairs. She is also Associate Professor at RegNet, the School of Regulation and Global Governance at the Australian National University.

Natasha Tusikov is Assistant Professor of Criminology at York University, Canada. She has also worked as a strategic criminal intelligence analyst and researcher at the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Ottawa.