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.
Author(s): Sami Moisio
Series: Regions and Cities
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: xii+182
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction
Towards a political geography of economic geographies
The structure of the book
Chapter 2: Three readings of the knowledge-based economy: From economy to economization
The knowledge-based economy as a discursive construct
The materialist reading of the knowledge-based economy: the urban landscapes of technopolization and beyond
Cultural political economy of the knowlesge-based economy
Interim conclusions: the process of knowledge-based economization
Chapter 3: Geopolitics and knowledge-based economization
The state in the polycentric world
The issue of de-geopolitization
On the concept of geopolitics
The geopolitical constitution of the knowledge-based economy
Brief interim conclusions
Chapter 4: Geopolitical discourses and objects of knowledge-based economization
Geopolitical discourses of knowledge-based economization: production sites and actors
Geopolitical discourses of the knowledge-based economy: the role of management knowledge
Porterian geopolitical reasoning: nationalizing inter-local competition
Porterian geopolitical reasoning and knowledge-based economization
Some implications of Porterian geopolitical reasoning
Time, space, location and interaction in geopolitical discourses of the knowledge-based economy
The production of political communities as geopolitical objects of competition in virtual spaces of comparison
Chapter 5: On geopolitical subjects of knowledge-based economization
Spatial foundations of the new geopolitical subject
Bringing labor into space
Chapter 6: Higher education, geopolitical subject formation and knowledge-based economization
Universities as geopolitical sites
Some further contours of the geopolitics of higher education
The changing figure of an engineer from the 1950s to the present: the case of Finland
The geopolitical discourse of the university reform in Finland
The new learning environment
Coping with knowledge-intensive form of capitalism: reforming higher education in Finland
Interim conclusions
Chapter 7: City geopolitics of knowledge-based economization
Cities and knowledge-based economization
On the concept of city geopolitics
City geopolitics of spatial Keynesianism
Toward a re-worked city geopolitics of state space
The creative class as a geopolitical theory
Guggenheim Helsinki and the limits of knowledge-based economization
The EU and knowledge-based economization: from regional to urban form of knowledge-based economization?
Chapter 8: Coda: Geopolitics of the knowledge-based economy
Spatiality of the process of knowledge-based economization
Some reflections on the role of the state in knowledge-based economization
Neoliberalism and knowledge-based economization
Toward a socio-spatial polarization?
References
Index
