Rob Shields, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University, Ottawa, the
founding editor of Space and Culture and on the Board of Theory, Culture and Society …

The first edition established itself as one of the leading books to situate the issue of
intellectual property within the discipline of International Political Economy (IPE). Since its …

In The Laws of the Markets, Michel Callon refrains from any explicit discussion of politics.
Yet, particularly in the final chapter of the book, it seems that a consideration of politics is at …

This is a succint and well-written book introducing a truly interdisciplinary approach to the
study of copyright and related issues in contemporary popular culture in relation to the …

Although it is often taken for granted that Internet governance should employ the principle of
multi-stakeholderism and that existing governance structures are not suitable for the …

'Pirates' and 'anti-pirates' have become common concepts in the cultural political debate, as
the file-sharing phenomenon is a delicate and disputed subject. The fact that people …

Across sub-Saharan Africa, the promise of 'informational development'is proclaimed. The
global governance of intellectual property rights (IPRs), however, currently structured …

This advertisement for Cisco Systems–the world's primary supplier of network solutions for
the Internet–suggestively illustrates the new economic imaginary linked to information and …

This article examines the way in which foreign investment in the transforming economies of
Central and Eastern Europe has been deeply concerned with shifting informal collective and …

Since the early 1990s, multilateral agencies, donors, development workers and academics
have devoted time and resources to information and communication technologies (ICTs) …