Popular Sovereignty in a Digital Age

Lessons for the Global South and Working Classes

Buch | Hardcover

342 Seiten

2024
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-1-4384-9885-0 (ISBN)

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Looks at how digitalization has changed the way we produce and interact, and the implications for working classes and countries of the Global South.

In the evolution of global capitalism and geopolitics, digitalization presents a new and yet unresolved chapter. In the lead up to digitalization, neoliberalism weakened the welfare states of the Global North and the developmental states of the Global South where they existed. Neoliberalism also disorganized working classes, as Left parties and labor organization declined across the globe. Into this deregulated and unchecked context, digitalization proceeded, and technology companies inserted themselves into multiple sectors, making use of first mover advantage and monopolistic practices to drive out smaller and less advanced firms. We can now characterize a landscape in which states have been weakened, working classes disorganized, and rival firms greatly handicapped, allowing big tech to operate as all-powerful quasi-monopolies. They enjoy unprecedented concentration of wealth, power, and advantage. Worryingly, deregulated technology now penetrates many areas of life with surveillance and control, setting us on a path towards anti-democratic, neo-imperial, and exclusionary futures. Aaron Schneider offers a popular and sovereign alternative, with particular focus on labor and the Global South.

Aaron Schneider is Leo Block Chair, Professor of International Studies at the University of Denver. He is the author of China, Latin America, and the Global Economy: Economic, Historical, and National Issues; Renew Orleans? Globalized Development and Worker Resistance after Hurricane Katrina; and State-Building and Tax Regimes in Central America, among other books.

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction
Henrique Estides Delgado and Aaron Schneider

Future Histories

2. A Usable Past for a Democratic Future: How Looking Backward Can Help Us Navigate the Digital Revolution
Lizzie O'Shea

3. Technological Innovations and Fake News: Democratic Challenges and What Is to Be Done
Rafael R. Ioris

4. Computing Machinery and the Modern Triumvirate: State, Market, and Science
Ivan da Costa Marques

Tech, Capital, and Collectivities

5. Evaluating Work in the Platform Economy: The Fairwork Project in Brazil and Latin America
Claudia Nociolini Rebechi, Marcos Aragão de Oliveira, Tatiana López Ayala, Jonas C. L. Valente, Rafael Grohmann, Julice Salvagni, Roseli Aparecida Figaro Paulino, Rodrigo Carelli, Victória Mendonça da Silva, Ana Flávia Marques da Silva, Camilla Voigt Baptistella, Jackeline Cristina Gameleira Cerqueira da Silva, Helena Rodrigues de Farias, Mark Graham, and Kelle Howson

6. The Role of Fake News in the Erosion of Brazilian Democracy
Tássio Acosta, P. Locatelli, and Sílvio Gallo

7. A Conversation with Julietta Hua and Kasturi Ray: Feminism, AI, and Racial Technocapitalism in the Uber 99 and Lyft Economy
Neda Atanasoski

8. On Coding Democracy, Popular Data-Equity, and Algorithmic Action: Notes from Brazil
Andre Isai Leirner

9. Participatory Institutions, Digital Technologies, and Democratic Crises
Benjamin Goldfrank and Yanina Welp

10. Britain's Food Crisis: Capital, Class, Technology, and Alternatives
Benjamin Selwyn

Digital States, Democracy, and Development

11. Global Capitalism after the Pandemic
William I. Robinson

12. Building Digital Sovereignty in Middle Powers: The Role of Intended and Spillover Effects
Vashishtha Doshi

13. Digital Economy Policies for Developing Countries
Parminder Jeet Singh

14. The Chinese Digital Revolution: How Digital Transformation Is Shaping a New China
Alessandro Teixeira Golombiewski and Zhenyu Jiang

15. Digital Futures and Global Power: Dynamics, Inequality, and Governance
Marco Cepik and Pedro Txai Leal Brancher

16. Conclusion
Aaron Schneider

List of Contributors
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	21.08.2024
Zusatzinfo	Total Illustrations: 21
Verlagsort	Albany, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	227 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10	1-4384-9885-3 / 1438498853
ISBN-13	978-1-4384-9885-0 / 9781438498850
Zustand	Neuware