Description
Book SynopsisFrom subsea cables to server halls, data infrastructures underpin new forms of governance, shaping subjects and their lives. This book moves from protestors in Hong Kong to sand miners in Singapore and asylum-seekers in Christmas Island, exploring how these territories are political and visceral, altering the experience of their inhabitants.
Trade ReviewTechnical Territories makes a strong case that we cannot ignore how developments in the data infrastructure arena are shaping geopolitics and international relations. This is an important contribution—one that focuses attention on the influence of material developments for how we think about and understand the changing political geography of the planet." - Alexander B. Murphy, University of Oregon
Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Part I: Technical Territory
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Assembling Technical Territory
- Part II: How to Do Things with Territory
- 3. Countering the Protestor in Hong Kong
- 4. Filtering the Migrant on Christmas Island
- 5. Constructing the Nation in Singapore
- Part III: The Future of Territory
- 6. From the Cloud to the Edge
- 7. Unmaking and Remaking Territory
- References
