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New Horizons and Contested Futures
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Description

Over the last 250 years, the global capitalist system has been responsible for rapid economic growth and technological change. The consequent increase in production of an ever-changing and expanding range of products and services has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and deprivation. This book suggests, however, that the primary purpose of current production and distribution is not to satisfy human needs but to create profit for the owners of capital that in turn has devastating consequences for the environment and for vulnerable people. Multidisciplinary in perspective, contributors to this volume addresses issues of inequality which affect both developed and developing countries. While they are concerned with the framework of income distribution they also explore the wider dynamics of capitalist systems of production and consumption and examine the dimensions of inequality from both an economic and socio/cultural perspective. The book has three key themes: relations between technologies, inequalities and exploitation; issues surrounding technologies and development; and the nature of technologies and their associated opportunities in the face of the future. That future is contested, and in the present context of persistent inequalities, a debate about where we might be going and how we might get there is crucial. This book makes a trenchant and challenging contribution to this debate.

Author Biography:

Erika Cudworth is Reader in Politics and Sociology at the University of East London. She is author of several books including Environment and Society (2003) and Developing Ecofeminist Theory (2005) and co-author of others including Posthuman International Relations: Complexity, Ecologism and International Politics (2011). Peter Senker was a Visiting Professor at the University of East London between 1995 and 2011, and a Senior Fellow at SPRU, University of Sussex between 1972 and 1995. He is co-editor of The Myths of Technology: Innovation and Inequality (Peter Lang, 2009) and Technology and In/equality: Questioning the Information Society (2000). Kathy Walker is Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications at the University of East London, leader of the Communication Studies degree programme and Director of the Society, Technology and Inequality Research Group (STIR). She is co-editor of The Myths of Technology: Innovation and Inequality (Peter Lang, 2009).
Release date NZ
June 6th, 2013
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Contributors
  • Edited by Erika Cudworth
  • Edited by Kathy Walker
  • Edited by Peter Senker
Edition
New edition
Pages
215
Dimensions
150x225x15
ISBN-13
9781433119705
Product ID
21276880

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