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Everyday Tech: In Search of Mundane Tactics

Michele Acuto in conversation with Saskia Sassen

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In this chapter Saskia Sassen, discusses tales of how technology (re)articulates political-economic relations but also requires a ‘mundane’ sensibility. In this chapter she does so building on personal memory, interdisciplinary view of IR and curious facts, highlighting serious matters of inequality and power. Engaged here in conversation with Michele Acuto, Sassen calls for empirical engagement ‘on the ground’ and continuous conceptual (r)evolution and self-examination. In particular, building on her scholarship on markets, cities and spatial appropriation, she offers as reminder that, when it comes to the role of technology in international relations theory and practice, no example is too mundane to matter.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

    Michele Acuto

  2. Columbia University, New York City, NY, USA

    Saskia Sassen

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  1. Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy (UCL STEaPP), University College London, London, UK

    Carolin Kaltofen

  2. Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy (UCL STEaPP), University College London, London, UK

    Madeline Carr

  3. University College London, London, UK

    Michele Acuto

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Acuto, M., Sassen, S. (2019). Everyday Tech: In Search of Mundane Tactics. In: Kaltofen, C., Carr, M., Acuto, M. (eds) Technologies of International Relations . Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97418-7_4

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