Michelsen / Bolt Unmapping the 21st Century

Between Networks and the State
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-5292-2375-0
Verlag: Bristol University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 164 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

The 21st century has been characterized by great turbulence, climate change, a global pandemic, and democratic decay.

Drawing on post-structural political theory, this book explores two dominant concepts used to make sense of our disturbed reality: the state and the network. The book explains how they are inextricably interwoven, while showing why they complicate the way we interpret our present.

In seeking a better understanding of today’s world, this book argues that we need to pull apart the familiar lines of our maps. By looking beneath and across these lines, an ‘unmapping’ presents new insights and opportunities for a better future.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Michelsen, Nicholas

Bolt, Neville

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Globalisierung, Transformationsprozesse
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Geopolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Taking the Lines off the Map

Chapter 2: A Great Unmapping

Chapter 3: Capitalism and Imperialism

Chapter 4: Thinking Like a State

Chapter 5: Bureaucracy and Power

Chapter 6: The Battle Swarm

Chapter 7: Information and the State

Chapter 8: Romance of Networks

Chapter 9: Borders and Impermanence

Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Bolt, Neville
Neville Bolt is Reader in Strategic Communications in the Department of War Studies and Director of the King’s Centre for Strategic Communications (KCSC) at King’s College London.

Michelsen, Nicholas
Nicholas Michelsen is Reader in International Relations and Director of Education in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London.

Nicholas Michelsen is Reader in International Relations and Director of Education in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London.

Neville Bolt is Reader in Strategic Communications in the Department of War Studies and Director of the King’s Centre for Strategic Communications (KCSC) at King’s College London.