Sami Moisio

"Valtio, alue, politiikka" avaa uudenlaisen perspektiivin Suomen valtion alueelliseen kehitykseen ja aluepoliittiseen toimintaan toisesta maailmansodasta nykypäivään. Teoksessa tarkastellaan erilaisiin aineistoihin perustuen 1940-luvun lopulta lähtien vähittäin kehittynyttä alueellisesti hajautettua hyvinvointivaltiota ja sen muuntautumista kohden hajautettua kilpailuvaltiota 1990-luvulla. Teoksessa esitellään myös sellaisia 2000-luvun alun poliittisia prosesseja, joissa Suomen tilallinen rakenne on jälleen ollut voimakkaan uudelleenmuokkaamisen kohteena. Teoksessa tarkastellaan, kuinka Suomen valtioalueeseen ja valtion väestöön on pyritty vaikuttamaan eri tavoilla eri aikoina, kun poliittisessa toiminnassa on valtion sisäisiin ja ulkoisiin yhteiskunnallisiin kehityskulkuihin vastattu. Teos soveltuu oppikirjaksi sekä yliopisto-opetuksessa että muussa kansansivistystyössä alue- ja yhdyskuntarakennetta sekä niihin vaikuttavaa poliittista toimintaa tai yleisen yhteiskuntapolitiikan kehitystä käsittelevillä tieteenaloilla. Sami Moisio on Oulun yliopiston maantieteen professori.

We live in an era of techno-monopoly power in which technocapitalism - through ubiquitous digital platforms - has colonized both the internet and key aspects of our everyday lives. Cities and larger urban and metropolitan environments have provided a fertile ground for the rise and rapid growth of this power. In The Urban Field, Moisio and Rossi reveal an urban monopoly capitalism supported by the “corporatized state”. They critically examine the relationship between capital and the state, and the generation of an urban governmentality centred on the economization of knowledge and technology in four key sites: labour, human capital, startups and forms of life. Moisio and Rossi contend that, ultimately, the urban field is a constitutively political construct that can be enacted in a different way, no longer as a value-extraction machine but as a collective endeavour aiming at redefining established modes of economic value creation.

We live in an era of techno-monopoly power in which technocapitalism - through ubiquitous digital platforms - has colonized both the internet and key aspects of our everyday lives. Cities and larger urban and metropolitan environments have provided a fertile ground for the rise and rapid growth of this power. In The Urban Field, Moisio and Rossi reveal an urban monopoly capitalism supported by the “corporatized state”. They critically examine the relationship between capital and the state, and the generation of an urban governmentality centred on the economization of knowledge and technology in four key sites: labour, human capital, startups and forms of life. Moisio and Rossi contend that, ultimately, the urban field is a constitutively political construct that can be enacted in a different way, no longer as a value-extraction machine but as a collective endeavour aiming at redefining established modes of economic value creation.

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.

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.