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Author | : Rahul Pawar & Ishwar Singh |
Publisher | : Pencil |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 2023-08-03 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9356678618 |
Modern society has undergone a profound transformation as a result of the quick development of technology, which has changed the way we live, work, and govern ourselves. An unprecedented degree of interconnection has been brought about by the digital revolution, providing people and countries with new tools and opportunities. But with this extraordinary development comes the urgent need to critically assess the complex link between politics and technology-a relationship that we either ignore or are unable to completely appreciate.
Author | : Gabrielle Hecht |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2011-04-04 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0262294753 |
Investigations into how technologies became peculiar forms of politics in an expanded geography of the Cold War. The Cold War was not simply a duel of superpowers. It took place not just in Washington and Moscow but also in the social and political arenas of geographically far-flung countries emerging from colonial rule. Moreover, Cold War tensions were manifest not only in global political disputes but also in struggles over technology. Technological systems and expertise offered a powerful way to shape countries politically, economically, socially, and culturally. Entangled Geographies explores how Cold War politics, imperialism, and postcolonial nation building became entangled in technologies and considers the legacies of those entanglements for today's globalized world. The essays address such topics as the islands and atolls taken over for military and technological purposes by the supposedly non-imperial United States, apartheid-era South Africa's efforts to achieve international legitimacy as a nuclear nation, international technical assistance and Cold War politics, the Saudi irrigation system that spurred a Shi'i rebellion, and the momentary technopolitics of emergency as practiced by Medecins sans Frontières. The contributors to Entangled Geographies offer insights from the anthropology and history of development, from diplomatic history, and from science and technology studies. The book represents a unique synthesis of these three disciplines, providing new perspectives on the global Cold War.
Author | : Timothy Mitchell |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2002-11-18 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780520232624 |
Author | : Nina Klimburg-Witjes |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 2023-09-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1000953572 |
This book explores the processes and practices of the securitization and de-securitization of European infrastructures and how political institutions interact with security and insecurity. Expert contributors address distinct areas, from border politics and biosecurity to health governance and law and border control enforcement, to examine the various ways in which infrastructures are envisioned, designed, negotiated and built. They explore how ‘infrastructuring’ contributes to emergent forms of European identity, integration, and statehood. The book will appeal to scholars and students of Science and Technology Studies, Political Sociology, Critical Security Studies, International Relations, European Integration Studies, Infrastructure Studies, or Critical Border and Migration Studies. The Introduction and the Afterword of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Author | : Sandra Jeppesen |
Publisher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2021-10-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0774865946 |
In 1999, Seattle activists adopted cutting-edge livestream technology to cover protests against the World Trade Organization. The Indymedia network that emerged established the importance of alternative, anti-capitalist media for marginalized groups. Sandra Jeppesen traces subsequent global developments in activist media practices, investigating their role in contesting interlocking systems of capitalism, racism, colonialism, heteronormativity, and gender oppression by harnessing the transformative power of technologies for political purposes. Based on participatory research, Transformative Media offers new insights into the challenges and contradictions behind the scenes of some of the world’s most exciting and controversial social movements.
Author | : John Allen Hendricks |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2014-06-03 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 1136968210 |
This volume examines the use of new media and technologies to reach voters in the 2008 US Presidential campaigns, and the role these tactics played in attracting new voters and communicating with the electorate. Chapters focus on how the technologies were used by candidates, the press, and voters.
Author | : Douglas Kellner |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2021-10-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 3658317906 |
As we enter a new millennium, it is clear that we are in the midst of one of the most dramatic technological revolutions in history that is changing everything from the ways that we work, communicate, participate in politics, and spend our leisure time. The technological revolution centers on computer, information, communication, and multimedia technologies, is often interpreted as the beginnings of a knowledge or information society, and therefore ascribes technologies a central role in every aspect of life. This Great Transformation poses tremendous challenges to critical social theorists, citizens, and educators to rethink their basic tenets, to deploy the media in creative and productive ways, and to restructure the workplace, social institutions, and schooling to respond constructively and progressively to the technological and social changes that we are now experiencing.
Author | : Antina von Schnitzler |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2016-11-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0691170789 |
In the past decade, South Africa's "miracle transition" has been interrupted by waves of protests in relation to basic services such as water and electricity. Less visibly, the post-apartheid period has witnessed widespread illicit acts involving infrastructure, including the nonpayment of service charges, the bypassing of metering devices, and illegal connections to services. Democracy’s Infrastructure shows how such administrative links to the state became a central political terrain during the antiapartheid struggle and how this terrain persists in the post-apartheid present. Focusing on conflicts surrounding prepaid water meters, Antina von Schnitzler examines the techno-political forms through which democracy takes shape. Von Schnitzler explores a controversial project to install prepaid water meters in Soweto—one of many efforts to curb the nonpayment of service charges that began during the antiapartheid struggle—and she traces how infrastructure, payment, and technical procedures become sites where citizenship is mediated and contested. She follows engineers, utility officials, and local bureaucrats as they consider ways to prompt Sowetans to pay for water, and she shows how local residents and activists wrestle with the constraints imposed by meters. This investigation of democracy from the perspective of infrastructure reframes the conventional story of South Africa’s transition, foregrounding the less visible remainders of apartheid and challenging readers to think in more material terms about citizenship and activism in the postcolonial world. Democracy’s Infrastructure examines how seemingly mundane technological domains become charged territory for struggles over South Africa’s political transformation.
Author | : Margarita M. Balmaceda |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 421 |
Release | : 2021-05-11 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 023155219X |
Russia’s use of its vast energy resources for leverage against post-Soviet states such as Ukraine is widely recognized as a threat. Yet we cannot understand this danger without also understanding the opportunity that Russian energy represents. From corruption-related profits to transportation-fee income to subsidized prices, many within these states have benefited by participating in Russian energy exports. To understand Russian energy power in the region, it is necessary to look at the entire value chain—including production, processing, transportation, and marketing—and at the full spectrum of domestic and external actors involved, from Gazprom to regional oligarchs to European Union regulators. This book follows Russia’s three largest fossil-fuel exports—natural gas, oil, and coal—from production in Siberia through transportation via Ukraine to final use in Germany in order to understand the tension between energy as threat and as opportunity. Margarita M. Balmaceda reveals how this dynamic has been a key driver of political development in post-Soviet states in the period between independence in 1991 and Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014. She analyzes how the physical characteristics of different types of energy, by shaping how they can be transported, distributed, and even stolen, affect how each is used—not only technically but also politically. Both a geopolitical travelogue of the journey of three fossil fuels across continents and an incisive analysis of technology’s role in fossil-fuel politics and economics, this book offers new ways of thinking about energy in Eurasia and beyond.
Author | : Francisco Sierra Caballero |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2017-11-09 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 3319655604 |
This edited collection presents original and compelling research about contemporary experiences of Latin American movements and politics in several countries. The book proposes a theoretical framework that conceptualises different mediation processes that emerge between cyberdemocracy and the emancipation practices of new social movements. Additionally, this volume presents some Latin American practices and experiences that are autonomously and by using self-management–creating other identities and social spaces on the margins of and against the neoliberal system through the use of digital technology. This book will be of great interest to scholars of media and social movements studies as well as of contemporary politics.