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| Tekijä: | Marres, N. Rogers, R. |
| Otsikko: | Subsuming the ground: how local realities of the Fergana Valley, the Narmada Dams and BTC pipeline are put to use on the Web |
| Lehti: | Economy and Society
2008 : MAY, VOL. 37:2, p. 251-281 |
| Asiasana: | globalization information technology non-government organizations politics |
| Kieli: | eng |
| Tiivistelmä: | Studies of the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) seek to come to terms with a particular problem of political globalization. While global forums are widely attributed the capacity to put in place the conditions for the resolution of local issues, at the same time these sites are seen to place unacceptable restrictions on the articulation of the issues from localist perspectives. ICTs occupy a special position with respect to this dilemma, as they are both seen to be part of the problem, a factor in the enrolment of NGOs in global governance networks, and part of the solution, as instruments of alternative, translocal forms of political organization. This piece shows how a particular style of Web analysis, informed by actor-network theory, demonstrates the need to complicate certain assumptions that inform both these critical and these constructive perspectives. |
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