Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
It is now commonly accepted that we live in a knowledge-based society and descriptions of what this means in practice are legion via analysis of the interaction between universities and the economy, business clusters and technopoles and the rise of information technology.
However, few attempts have been made to understand the philosophical roots and political nature of such a society - a complex enactment of contemporary state power through which a modern style of governance cane be exercised.
Central to this is the notion of the internationalization of policy regimes, the role of subjectivity and creativity and the spatial transformation of the state. Sami Moisio engages deeply with the issues to provide a theoretical overview of the knowledge-based society's geopolitics.
Synopsis
We live in the era of the knowledge-based economy, and this has major implications for the ways in which states, cities and even supranational political units are spatially planned, governed and developed. In this book, Sami Moisio delves deeply into the links between the knowledge-based economy and geopolitics, examining a wide range of themes, including city geopolitics and the university as a geopolitical site. Overall, this work shows that knowledge-based economization can be understood as a geopolitical process that produces territories of wealth, security, power and belonging.
This book will prove enlightening to students, researchers and policymakers in the fields of human geography, urban studies, spatial planning, political science and international relations.