ABSTRACT

Introduction: 20th-21st century imaginings and realities  Section 1: Time/Space Frameworks  1. States and Markets: understanding geospatial time 2. Virtual Realities: exploring sociospatiality  3. The Political Economy of Time: historical time, speed and mobility Section 2: Borders and Inequality  4. Transcendence and Communication  5. Inequality as Driver  6. Embedding Patriarchy: feminism and inequality in the Internet era  Section 3: Technofutures and Power  7. Complex Hegemony in the 21st Century: power and inequality  Conclusion

chapter |20 pages

Introduction

Twentieth- to twenty-first-century imaginings and realities – a long view of information society

part |2 pages

Part I Time/space frameworks

chapter 2|18 pages

Virtual realities

Exploring sociospatiality

part |2 pages

Part II Borders and inequality

chapter 5|16 pages

Inequality as driver

chapter 6|17 pages

Embedded patriarchy

Feminism and inequality in the Internet era

part |2 pages

Part III Technofutures and power

chapter 7|16 pages

Complex hegemony in the twenty-first century

Power and inequality