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An examination of how urban peripheries are being redefined in the digital era.
Moving beyond current scholarship in urban and regional studies, this volume 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 this concept is parallel to and overlaps with the urban periphery, the circulation—or restriction—of information has taken on additional significance with the coming of a digital age. The periphery is no longer confined to the slums or suburbia at a city's edge; it now also encompasses uneven and fragmented digital infrastructures.
Providing empirical and theoretical contributions from cities in the Global South, this book advances scholarship in Southern urbanism, smart cities, and peripheral urbanization, conceptualizing the diverse ways in which informational peripheries are resisted, adapted, complied with, and lived in.
Moving beyond current scholarship in urban and regional studies, this volume 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 this concept is parallel to and overlaps with the urban periphery, the circulation—or restriction—of information has taken on additional significance with the coming of a digital age. The periphery is no longer confined to the slums or suburbia at a city's edge; it now also encompasses uneven and fragmented digital infrastructures.
Providing empirical and theoretical contributions from cities in the Global South, this book advances scholarship in Southern urbanism, smart cities, and peripheral urbanization, conceptualizing the diverse ways in which informational peripheries are resisted, adapted, complied with, and lived in.
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
1 An introduction to informational peripheries
Ayona Datta and Fenna Imara Hoefsloot
Theme I: producing the informational periphery
2 Peripheralised labour: the digitisation of Nairobi’s land information system
Ayona Datta and Dennis Mbugua Muthama
3 Waste as an economic and informational resource: the datafication of waste collection labour at India’s informational periphery
Josie Wittmer
4 Informational peripheries by design: land, layer and leverage in the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area Juan Angel Demerutis Arenas, Ayona Datta and Jesus Flores
5 The peripheralisation of informalised communities in Kenya’s digital land administration
Fenna Imara Hoefsloot and Catherine Gateri
Theme II: territorialising the informational periphery
6 The logistical periphery: territory, land and people in the margins of a digital age
Ayona Datta
7 Informational peripheries as ecological peripheries: vignettes from Guiyang
Calvin King Lam Chung, Jingya Dai & Jiang Xu
8 Follow the data: computing the algorithmic periphery with credit scores and property values
Julien Migozzi
9 Digitising peripheral property: assetisation, platformisation and disconnection
Thomas Cowan
Theme III: informational agency from the peripheries
10 Paper truths, digital authentication: India’s interstate migrants and the path to urban citizenship
Shoshana Goldstein
11 Separate informational worlds: urban governance and speculative futures in the periphery of Mexico City
Julie-Anne Boudreau
12 Infrastructural injustice: the peripheralisation of urban water consumers in Lima, Peru
Fenna Imara Hoefsloot
13 Conclusions: towards global informational peripheries
Fenna Imara Hoefsloot and Ayona Datta
14 Epilogue: Of digital frontiers and peripheries
D. Asher Ghertner
Index
List of tables
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
1 An introduction to informational peripheries
Ayona Datta and Fenna Imara Hoefsloot
Theme I: producing the informational periphery
2 Peripheralised labour: the digitisation of Nairobi’s land information system
Ayona Datta and Dennis Mbugua Muthama
3 Waste as an economic and informational resource: the datafication of waste collection labour at India’s informational periphery
Josie Wittmer
4 Informational peripheries by design: land, layer and leverage in the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area Juan Angel Demerutis Arenas, Ayona Datta and Jesus Flores
5 The peripheralisation of informalised communities in Kenya’s digital land administration
Fenna Imara Hoefsloot and Catherine Gateri
Theme II: territorialising the informational periphery
6 The logistical periphery: territory, land and people in the margins of a digital age
Ayona Datta
7 Informational peripheries as ecological peripheries: vignettes from Guiyang
Calvin King Lam Chung, Jingya Dai & Jiang Xu
8 Follow the data: computing the algorithmic periphery with credit scores and property values
Julien Migozzi
9 Digitising peripheral property: assetisation, platformisation and disconnection
Thomas Cowan
Theme III: informational agency from the peripheries
10 Paper truths, digital authentication: India’s interstate migrants and the path to urban citizenship
Shoshana Goldstein
11 Separate informational worlds: urban governance and speculative futures in the periphery of Mexico City
Julie-Anne Boudreau
12 Infrastructural injustice: the peripheralisation of urban water consumers in Lima, Peru
Fenna Imara Hoefsloot
13 Conclusions: towards global informational peripheries
Fenna Imara Hoefsloot and Ayona Datta
14 Epilogue: Of digital frontiers and peripheries
D. Asher Ghertner
Index