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Hacking Code/Space: Confounding The Code Of Global Capitalism, Matthew Zook, Mark Graham
Hacking Code/Space: Confounding The Code Of Global Capitalism, Matthew Zook, Mark Graham
Geography Faculty Publications
Information-technologies are essential for global capitalism to function at speed across scale, space and complexity. The importance of software and algorithms in the governance of these systems is reflected in the attention of scholars to the ways digital code and materiality (re)combine to create hybrid digital/material spaces of economic activity, movement and everyday life. This paper extends this work in two key ways: first by emphasising the relational aspect of these code/spaces, and second by showing how the digital algorithms of code/spaces are hackable rather than hegemonic. Using the case study of frequent flyer programmes we demonstrate how networked knowledge-sharing …
Methodological Challenges In Urban Food Systems Research: Case Study Of Local Food Institutions In South Africa, Daniel N. Warshawsky
Methodological Challenges In Urban Food Systems Research: Case Study Of Local Food Institutions In South Africa, Daniel N. Warshawsky
Geography Faculty Publications
This paper examines how institutional power dynamics in South Africa’s urban food system have restricted the quantity, quality, and type of data collected on food institutions and limited the range of research and policy as a result. In particular, while non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and local institutions speak openly with researchers or share data, key governing institutions such as the state and agri-businesses often refuse to work with scholars. This has not only limited access to data on food system flows and operations, but it has also resulted in a significant research gap about the principal institutions in food systems, as …
[Review Of] Zero Degrees. Geographies Of The Prime Meridian By Charles W. J. Withers (Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2017) 321 Pp. $29.95, Jeremy W. Crampton
[Review Of] Zero Degrees. Geographies Of The Prime Meridian By Charles W. J. Withers (Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2017) 321 Pp. $29.95, Jeremy W. Crampton
Geography Faculty Publications
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