Technology and Governance Beyond the State

This book explores how information and communications technologies are adapted, governed, and reinterpreted in areas where the state has limited reach.

This book will be of great interest to students of Socio-Legal Studies, Science and Technology Studies, (Critical) Security Studies and International Relations.

Autorentext

Nicole Stremlau is the Head of the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy at the University of Oxford's Centre for Socio-Legal Studies and Research Professor in the School of Communications at the University of Johannesburg.

Clara Voyvodic Casabó is a Lecturer in Peace Studies and International Development in the Department of Peace and International Development, University of Bradford.

Inhalt

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 Non-State Law and Technology: Theory and Themes

Section I: Tradition and Modernity

Chapter 2 Digitalising Traditions: Custom, Land, Biodiversity and Resource Management in Vanuatu

Chapter 3 Tradition, Tussle, and Technology: the Khap Panchayat's Guide to Regulating Mobile Phones in India

Chapter 4 'Crowdfarming' in South Africa: Using Platform Technology to Connect Tradition and Modernity

Section II: Borderlands

Chapter 5 The Regulation of Cross-border Trading of Mobile Phones in the Ethio-Somaliland Corridor

Chapter 6 Ambivalent State Governance and Counter-governance: Migrants on the Move in the France-UK Techno-borderscape

Chapter 7 Moderating Digital Communities in Hybrid Governance Contexts: The Case of Refugees' Digital Inclusion and Communication in Nairobi

Chapter 8 The Legal Geographies of Thailand's Technology Markets

Part III: Challenges to the State

Chapter 9 Performative State building in the Digital World: ISIS and Monetary Economics

Chapter 10 The Role of the Mobile Network Operators in Conflicting Governance Systems: A Case Study of the Mobile Telecommunications Industry in Afghanistan

Chapter 11 Informality and the Internet: Alternative Versions of Technological Governance in Brazil

Part IV: Digital Spaces

Chapter 12 Decentralized Governance Opportunities in the Energy Sector: Examples from Blockchain-based Initiatives

Chapter 13 Manufacturing Legitimacy: Content Moderation and the Absence of the State

Chapter 14 Conclusions and Reflections on the Future of Technology and Regulation in Areas of Limited Statehood

Index