Informational peripheries : rethinking the urban in a digital age / edited by Ayona Datta, Fenna Imara Hoefsloot.
| Other author | Datta, Ayona, editor. |
| Other author | Hoefsloot, Fenna Imara, 1992- editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | London : UCL Press, 2025 |
| Copyright Date | ©2025 |
| Description | xvii, 303 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | An introduction to informational peripheries / Ayona Datta and Fenna Imara Hoefsloot -- Theme I: producing the informational periphery. Peripheralised labour: the digitisation of Nairobi's land information system / Ayona Datta and Dennis Mbugua Muthama -- Waste as an economic and informational resource: the datafication of waste collection labour at India's informational periphery / Josie Wittmer -- Informational peripheries by design: land, layer and leverage in the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area / Juan Angel Demerutis Arenas, Ayona Datta and Jesus Flores -- The peripheralisation of informalised communities in Kenya's digital land administration / Fenna Imara Hoefsloot and Catherine Gateri -- Theme II: territorialising the informational periphery. The logistical periphery: territory, land and people in the margins of a digital age / Ayona Datta -- Informational peripheries as ecological peripheries: vignettes from Guiyang / Calvin King Lam Chung, Jingya Dai and Jiang Xu -- Follow the data: computing the algorithmic periphery with credit scores and property values / Julien Migozzi -- Digitising peripheral property: assetisation, platformisation and disconnection / Thomas Cowan -- Theme III: informational agency from the peripheries. Paper truths, digital authentication: India's interstate migrants and the path to urban citizenship / Shoshana Goldstein -- Separate informational worlds: urban governance and speculative futures in the periphery of Mexico City / Julie-Anne Boudreau -- Infrastructural injustice: the peripheralisation of urban water consumers in Lima, Peru / Fenna Imara Hoefsloot -- Conclusions: towards global informational peripheries / Fenna Imara Hoefsloot and Ayona Datta -- Epilogue: of digital frontiers and peripheries / D. Asher Ghertner. |
| Abstract | "Urbanisation and urban life in a digital age needs to be examined through a lens of information - encompassing both its politics and its geographies. The periphery in an information age is located simultaneously across the geographic centre and edge, across social, material and digital worlds. Moving beyond current scholarship in urban and regional studies, this book presents a case for 'informational peripheries' as an analytical lens to understand the uneven, fragmented and disconnected geographies of urban peripheries in the Global South. While 'unplanned urbanisation' has been a key discourse in the production of urban periphery in the Global South, Informational Peripheries argues that the coming of an informational age destabilises the geographic location of the urban periphery. Informational peripheries capture the complexities of digital, material and social dispersal and fragmentation that emerge from informational extraction, redlining, manipulation and bypassing. Exclusions are marked by both geographic and informational distance from the state. It includes subjects who are uncountable, as well as territories that are digitally, socially and materially unmappable. This approach provides an important vantage point for interrogating the political and technological apparatuses that are reconfiguring the notion of the urban in a digital age."--Back cover. |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9781800088900 |
| ISBN | 9781800088887 |
| ISBN | 9781800088870 hardback |
| ISBN | 1800088876 |
| ISBN | 1800088884 |
| ISBN | ePub ebook |
| ISBN | PDF ebook |
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