We live in an era of techno-monopoly power in which technocapitalism – through ubiquitous digital platforms – has colonized both the internet and key aspects of our everyday lives. Cities and larger urban and metropolitan environments have provided a fertile ground for the rise and rapid growth of this power. In The Urban Field, Moisio and Rossi reveal an urban monopoly capitalism supported by the “corporatized state”. They critically examine the relationship between capital and the state, and the generation of an urban governmentality centred on the economization of knowledge and technology in four key sites: labour, human capital, startups and forms of life. Moisio and Rossi contend that, ultimately, the urban field is a constitutively political construct that can be enacted in a different way, no longer as a value-extraction machine but as a collective endeavour aiming at redefining established modes of economic value creation.
Innehållsförteckning
Introduction: neo-feudalism or new monopoly capital?
Part I Macro-political economy of the urban field
1. The rise of the corporatized state
2. The urban field and the strategic urbanization of the state
Part II Micro-political economy of the urban field
3. Labour
4. Human capital
5. Startups
6. Forms of life
Coda: the value of the urban field
Om författaren
Ugo Rossi is Professor of Political and Economic Geography at the Gran Sasso Science Institute, where he teaches in the graduate programme in regional science and economic geography. His research interests are in the politics of urban and regional development as well as in critical political and social theory. His books include Cities in Global Capitalism (2017) and (with Alberto Vanolo) Urban Political Geographies (2012).
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