scholarly journals Everything Old Is New Again—Or Is It?

2019 ◽  
pp. 15-47
Author(s):  
Julie E. Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Industrial Production ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Intangible Resources ◽  
Informational Capitalism ◽  
Double Movement

Extending the analytical frame and the metaphor of the double movement, this chapter frames the emergence of informational capitalism in terms of three large-scale shifts that together constitute the movement toward informational capitalism: the propertization (or enclosure) of intangible resources, the dematerialization and datafication of the basic factors of industrial production, and the embedding (and rematerialization) of patterns of barter and exchange within information platforms. Against that background, it explores the shifting, emergent relationships between control of intangible intellectual resources and political economy. In particular, it highlights ways in which data and algorithms have become the subjects of active appropriation strategies—strategies that represent both economic and legal entrepreneurship.

How cars became mobile spatial media: A geographical political economy of on-board navigation

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 362-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis F. Alvarez Leon
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Autonomous Navigation ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
Locative Media ◽  
The Core ◽  
Informational Capitalism ◽  
Economic Forces ◽  
Theoretical Developments

While cars, by definition and necessity, have always been (auto)mobile, they are not often considered, or studied, as media. In light of this, the present article seeks to elucidate the technological, political, and economic forces that have converged to transform cars into mobile spatial media. This article provides a framework to contextualize the nodal role of navigation in creating the conditions for a large-scale disruption in automobile technologies with potentially far-reaching impacts: autonomous navigation. The arguments at the core of this article bring together, and build on, recent theoretical developments in (a) locative media, (b) automobiles as mobile media, and (c) new mapping technologies, practices, and spatial media to provide a coherent perspective of cars as mobile spatial media. Informed by a geographical political economy of navigation, this perspective contributes to our understanding of cars in the context of digital and informational capitalism as these vehicles undergo qualitative transformations catalyzed by increased digital interconnections and comprehensive automation.

Leisure, Surveillance, and the Private Sector in India

2019 ◽  
pp. 67-98
Author(s):  
Pradip Ninan Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Public Private Partnerships ◽  
The Political ◽  
Double Movement

This chapter furthers the exploration of surveillance in India against the background of the Snowden revelations and WikiLeaks by focusing specifically on the role played by the private sector in the extension of surveillance, often through public–private partnerships. It explores the political economy of the surveillance industries in India against the power of ‘code’ and ‘algorithmic power’. It highlights the role played by transnational search and social networks such as Google and Facebook, and the nature of the power to control affective behaviour. It also deals with the use of code in India’s leisure industries and illustrates Polanyi’s ‘double movement’ in the use of code by communities in India as an expression of its democratization.

Intensive Ceramic Production and Classic-Period Political Economy in the Sierra de los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, Mexico

1993 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip J. Arnold ◽  
Christopher A. Pool ◽  
Ronald R. Kneebone ◽  
Robert S. Santley
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Classic Period ◽  
Ceramic Production ◽  
Los Tuxtlas ◽  
Prestige Goods ◽  
Local Elite ◽  
Production Area ◽  
Sierra De Los Tuxtlas

AbstractMatacapan, a Classic-period center in the Sierra de los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, Mexico, is known for its strong stylistic affinities with Teotihuacan. The Comoapan complex is a ceramic-production area situated along the southern edge of Matacapan. Data from Comoapan indicate that pottery manufacture was large scale and intensive, with final products distributed outside of Matacapan and possibly beyond the Tuxtlas. These data suggest that models of Tuxtlas political economy emphasizing long-term Teotihuacan administration should be reconsidered. More reasonable is a perspective that views the Tuxtlas as a source of high-quality prestige goods whose distribution is administered by local elite.

Strategic Debt

2008 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 411-435 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carla Norrlöf
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
International Political Economy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Quarter Century ◽  
Trade And Investment

Abstract. Accumulating debt is usually harmful for states, but a cyclical deficit policy and large-scale borrowing have been beneficial for the United States. While structural changes in the international political economy may cap America's future ability to process debt, an empirical analysis of the economic dimensions of hegemony over the last quarter century shows unambiguously that the hegemon reaps disproportionate gains in the area of trade and investment. This finding provides new insight on whether it is advantageous to be a hegemon.Résumé. Les États pâtissent généralement de l'accumulation des dettes, mais une politique de déficit cyclique et le recours à de larges emprunts ont pourtant été bénéfiques aux États-Unis. La capacité future de la puissance américaine à gérer sa dette sera peut-être entamée par les changements structurels subis par l'économie politique mondiale. Toutefois, l'analyse empirique des dimensions économiques de la situation d'hégémonie durant les vingt-cinq dernières années met à jour, et sans ambiguïté aucune, les gains disproportionnés générés par l'hégémon dans les domaines du commerce et de l'investissement. Cette recherche apporte un éclairage nouveau au débat sur les avantages liés à la position d'hégémon.

On the Progress of Combustion Synthesis of Si3N4 Ceramic: From Laboratory Research to Industrial Production

2007 ◽  
Vol 336-338 ◽  
pp. 911-915 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiang Tao Li ◽  
Yun Yang ◽  
Hai Bo Jin
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Activation ◽  
Combustion Synthesis ◽  
Industrial Production ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Processing Parameters ◽  
Nitrogen Pressure ◽  
Chemical Stimulation ◽  
Ammonium Salts ◽  
Laboratory Research ◽  
The Past

The progress on the combustion synthesis of Si3N4 powders during the past decades was summarized with the emphasis on the recently developed mechano-chemically activated combustion synthesis (MACS) method. The effects of processing parameters such as the addition of diluent and ammonium salts into the green mixtures, the variation of nitrogen pressure as well as the mechanical activation treatment on the degree of Si to α-Si3N4 conversion was evaluated. The combination of mechanical activation and chemical stimulation was effective in enhancing the reactivity of Si powder reactants, which was responsible for the extension of the minimum nitrogen pressure normally required for the combustion synthesis of Si3N4. This breakthrough indicates that nitriding combustion of silicon in pressurized nitrogen could be promoted by activating the solid reactants instead of by increasing the pre-exerted nitrogen pressure. The MACS process was successfully applied to the industrial production of Si3N4 powders, the regularities for the large-scale synthesis were reported, and the as-synthesized Si3N4 powder products were systematically characterized.

scholarly journals Agricultural Commercialisation and the Political Economy of Cocoa and Rice Value Chains in Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Remi Aiyede
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
High Growth ◽  
Growth Potential ◽  
Farm Households ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Smallholder Farm ◽  
Commercial Medium ◽  
Export Revenue ◽  
Very High

Nigeria has sought to diversify its economy away from dependence on oil as a major source of government revenue through agricultural commercialisation. Agriculture has been a priority sector because it has very high growth potential and the greatest potential for employment and export revenue. The cocoa and rice value chains are central to the government’s engagement with agriculture to achieve these objectives. This paper sets out to investigate the underlying political economy dynamics of the commercialisation of the cocoa and rice value chains in Nigeria in terms of smallholder farm households’ shift from semi-subsistence agriculture to production primarily for market, and predominantly commercial medium- and large-scale farm enterprises complementing or replacing smallholder farm households.

scholarly journals The political-economy of land acquisition and privatization of Birr and Ayehu Farms in Amhara Region, North-West Ethiopia

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Asabu Sewenet Alamineh ◽  
Getachew Fentahun Workie ◽  
Nurlign Birhan Moges
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Land Acquisition ◽  
The Political ◽  
Public Enterprises ◽  
North West ◽  
Local Livelihoods ◽  
North West Ethiopia ◽  
Legal Frameworks

AbstractThe recognition of commercial agricultural investment led to the expansion of large-scale farms through eviction of farmers during the Derg and Ethiopian People Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) regimes. But anti-dispossession voices and investment driven violence have frequently occurred in post-Derg Ethiopia. This study thus attempts to uncover the political-economy of land acquisition and privatization of Birr and Ayehu farms. The necessary data for the study were collected through interview, questionnaire, focused group discussion and document review. The data collected through questionnaire was analyzed using descriptive statistics and the qualitative data was analyzed thematically. The findings of the study indicated that the farms were began during the Derg regime as public enterprises, and later privatized to Ethio-Agri-CEFT in a neo-patrimonial modality with a gigantic trend of land acquisition, legal distortion and violation of landholding rights. This poor and neo-patrimonial operation of farms jeopardized local livelihoods, created land use change and evoked stiff public grievance, political upheaval and polarized state–society relations. This indicated that the expansion of farms have brought lopsided development to party affiliated investors by dismantling local livelihoods. Ethio Agri-CEFT thus should respect legal frameworks and adopt inclusive developmental practices for its sustainability and success.

scholarly journals The “Austrian School of Critical Political Economy”? A Review of Thomas Allmer’s Book “Towards a Critical Theory of Surveillance in Informational Capitalism”

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 771-774
Author(s):  
Jernej Amon Prodnik
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Austrian School ◽  
Frankfurt Am Main ◽  
New School ◽  
Informational Capitalism

This article is a review of Thomas Allmer’s book “Towards a Critical Theory of Surveillance in Informational Capitalism”. The book was published in 2012 by the publishing house Peter Lang (in Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, New York, Oxford […]). In the start of the article the author also poses the question whether there is a new school of thought emerging, namely the “Austrian School of Critical Political Economy”.

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