Unmapping the 21st Century - Nicholas Michelsen, Neville Bolt

Unmapping the 21st Century

Between Networks and the State
Buch | Hardcover
160 Seiten
2022
Bristol University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5292-2373-6 (ISBN)
105,95 inkl. MwSt
Drawing on post-structural political theory, this book explores two concepts used to make sense of our disturbed reality: the state and the network. It argues that, in order to better understand today's world, we must pull apart the familiar lines of our maps to find new insights and opportunities for a better future.
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.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 9 Illustrations, black and white
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Europäische / Internationale Politik
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-5292-2373-3 / 1529223733
ISBN-13 978-1-5292-2373-6 / 9781529223736
Zustand Neuware
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