Contours of the illiberal state : governing circulation in the smart economy /

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Imprint:	Frankfurt : Campus Verlag, [2019] ©2019
Description:	290 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language:	English
Series:	Nordamerikastudien ; volume 39 Nordamerikastudien ; Bd. 39.
Subject:	Sustainable development. Environmental policy -- Economic aspects. Environmental policy -- Economic aspects. Sustainable development.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12007168

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ISBN:	9783593510170 3593510170 9783593440606
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:	The post-Cold War era was marked by the emergence of unprecedented new networks of international private trade, cooperation, and circulation of goods that promised to render the state nearly obsolete?at least in theory. The essays collected in this book dissect the notions of this so-called ?smart economy,? revealing the crucial role that government interventions still play in facilitating the production and the global flow of goods. The contributors focus particularly on the role played by the United States, often incorrectly assumed to be the most liberal and least interventionist in the global order. More than a mere market fixer, the United States has long assumed an outsized position in expediting the global circulation of goods through its supply chains and communication channels. Drawing from such diverse fields as political science, urban sociology, and cultural studies, Contours of the Illiberal State takes a broad interdisciplinary look at how nations became active market enablers.
Other form:	9783593440606 PDF version
Standard no.:	9783593510170

Table of Contents:

Preface
Prologue
Assembling the Smart Economy: A Typology of State Intervention Patterns
I. Infrastructural Statecraft: Logistics, Power and Circulation
Logistics of Settlement: Rethinking the Political Economic Geography of Canadian Colonial Expansion
Guaranteeing the Flow: How State Politics Shaped Global Logistics Systems
Circulation Needs, State Selectivities and Technostructures: The Case of NAFTA
II. The Smart City: Grounding the Economy of the Future
The Myth of the Green City: Mapping the Uneven Geographies of E-Mobility
Disrupting Regulation? State Capacities in the Digital Platform Economy
Fear and Loathing on the High Line: Notes from the Spatial Frontline of Spectacle Techno-Capitalism
III. Labor, Technological Utopias and Emancipatory Potentials
Infrastructures of Digital Capitalism: On Automation and Labor
A Second Gilded Age? Organized Labor in Changing Geographies of Work
Ceteris Paribus Ideology: The Green Economy, Technology and the Future of Work
Epilogue
Prospects of a Rural Renaissance: Will the Smart Economy Compress Regional Disparities?
Notes on Contributors

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