The digitalising state: Governing digitalisation-as-urbanisation in the global south (2023)

Datta, A. (2022) The digitalising state: Governing digitalisation-as-urbanisation in the global south. Progress in Human Geography

This paper will investigate the emergence of a digitalising state in the global south through a focus on new techniques of governance initiated by the information age. It will discuss the mechanisms of the digitalising state across two realms – the governance of information infrastructures present in the transition from paper to digital data, and the governance of informational peripheries lying on the intersections of digital and territorial exclusions. The paper argues that through these dynamics, the digitalising state is engaged in a politics of digitalisation-as-urbanisation where digitalisation becomes both a product and producer of regional urbanisation.

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