Peter C. Little 
Critical Zones of Technopower and Global Political Ecology [EPUB ebook] 
Platforms, Pathologies, and Plunder

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This book explores technology and the global tech industry in relation to social, health, economic, and environmental relations and politics. Peter C. Little argues that the power and influence of electronics and Big Techfrom the proliferation of digital platforms to the expansion of global electronic waste streamsis a political-ecological problem that impacts communities and lives in both the Global North and South. From intense resource extraction, industrial pollution, and surging health and economic inequalities, to data-driven surveillance, platform economy proliferation and intrusion, and Silicon Valley corporate-power, Little argues that the political ecology of tech matters now more than ever. Based on a mixture of engagements with tech criticism, ethnographic case studies, and critical analysis and development of guiding conceptsranging from technocapital to technoprecarious political ecologythe book exposes and interrogates the underlying toxicity, precarity, and planetary politics of global tech. Critical Zones of Technopower and Global Political Ecology also tracks justice struggles that confront technopower, including ‘;just tech’ forms of social action that further reinforce the importance of a global political ecology of technocapitalism in the digital age.

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Taal Engels ● Formaat EPUB ● ISBN 9781666901108 ● Uitgeverij Lexington Books ● Gepubliceerd 2023 ● Downloadbare 3 keer ● Valuta EUR ● ID 9145673 ● Kopieerbeveiliging Adobe DRM
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