We are now living through a period of knowledge capitalism in which, as Castells put it, 'the action of knowledge upon knowledge is the main source of productivity.' In the face of such transformation, the economic, social and institutional contours of contemporary capitalism are being reshaped. At the heart of this world are an emergent set of economies, regions, institutions and peoples central of the flows and translations of knowledge. This book provides an interdisciplinary review of the triad of knowledge, space, economy on entering the twenty-first century. Drawing on a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, the first part of the book comprises a set of statements by leading authors on the role of knowledge in capitalism. Thereafter, the remaining two parts of the book explore the landscape of knowledge capitalism through a series of analyses of knowledge in action within a range of economic, political and cultural contexts. Bringing together a set of authors from across the social sciences, this book provides both a major theoretical statement on understanding the economic world and an empirical exemplification of the power of knowledge in shaping the spaces and places of today's society.
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'It is fascinating first, because of the nature of the subject matter and second, because some of the chapters are extremely stimulating.' - The Service Industries Journal
'... a book worthy of serious reflection from those seeking to derive from it the significant cross-disciplinary insight to which the editors have both aspired and effectively delivered.' - Economic Geography Research Group
List of illustrations vii List of contributors ix Acknowledgements xv Introduction 1(12) John R. Bryson Peter W. Daniels Nick Henry Jane Pollard PART I Knowledge, space, economy 13(88) Power/economic knowledge: symbolic and spatial formations 15(19) John Allen Materialities, spatialities, globalities 34(16) John Law Kevin Hetherington Knowledge, innovation and location 50(13) Jeremy Howells The state and the contradictions of the knowledge-driven economy 63(16) Bob Jessop Just in time?: the prevalence of representational time and space to marketing discourses of consumer buyer behaviour 79(22) Pamela Odih David Knights PART II Knowledge at work in space and place 101(106) Creating and sustaining competitiveness: local knowledge and economic geography 103(17) Edward J. Malecki (The) industrial agglomeration (of Motor Sport Valley): a knowledge, space, economy approach 120(22) Nick Henry Steven Pinch Worlds in motion?: `worlds of production, evolutionary economic change and contemporary retail banking 142(15) Jane Pollard Andrew Leyshon Spreading the message: management consultants and the shaping of economic geographies in time and space 157(19) John R. Bryson The free and the unfree: `Emerging markets, the Heritage Foundation and the `Index of Economic Freedom 176(15) James Sidaway Michael Pryke Rethinking `useful knowledge: co-operative science and the new genetics 191(16) Morag Bell PART III Becoming in the (k)now: spaces of identity 207(73) Space, knowledge and consumption 209(17) David B. Clarke Virtual culture: knowledge, identity and choice 226(16) Frank Webster `Have you got the customers permission?: category management and circuits of knowledge in the UK food business 242(19) Ian Cook Philip Crang Mark Thorpe Being told and answering back: knowledge, power and the new world of work 261(16) Jane Wills Epilogue 277(3) John R. Bryson Peter W. Daniels Nick Henry Jane Pollard Bibliography 280(38) Index 318
John Bryson, Peter Daniels, Nick Henry and Jane Pollard all lecture in the School of Geography and Environmental Sciences, at the University of Birmingham
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