Informational Peripheries
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. Movin...
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1632472025-08-04T05:03:11Z Informational Peripheries Datta, Ayona Hoefsloot, Fenna Imara Informational space;Periphery;Peripheralization;Global South;Urbanisation;Digitalisation;Data politics;Southern theory;Urban theory;Infrastructure thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography::RGCU Settlement, urban and rural geography thema EDItEUR::U Computing and Information Technology::UB Information technology: general topics::UBJ Digital and information technologies: social and ethical aspects 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. 2025-07-30T19:11:04Z 2025-07-30T19:11:04Z 2025-07-29T09:23:18Z 2025 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/104460 9781800088870 9781800088887 9781800088900 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/163247 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/104460/1/9781800088894.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/104460/1/9781800088894.pdf UCL Press 10.14324/111.9781800088894 10.14324/111.9781800088894 29b9f0a3-1b0d-4bdd-99d7-b4d3432d7fcc 9781800088870 9781800088887 9781800088900 325 London open access |
| spellingShingle | Informational space;Periphery;Peripheralization;Global South;Urbanisation;Digitalisation;Data politics;Southern theory;Urban theory;Infrastructure thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography::RGCU Settlement, urban and rural geography thema EDItEUR::U Computing and Information Technology::UB Information technology: general topics::UBJ Digital and information technologies: social and ethical aspects Informational Peripheries |
| title | Informational Peripheries |
| title_full | Informational Peripheries |
| title_fullStr | Informational Peripheries |
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| title_short | Informational Peripheries |
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| topic | Informational space;Periphery;Peripheralization;Global South;Urbanisation;Digitalisation;Data politics;Southern theory;Urban theory;Infrastructure thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography::RGCU Settlement, urban and rural geography thema EDItEUR::U Computing and Information Technology::UB Information technology: general topics::UBJ Digital and information technologies: social and ethical aspects |
| topic_facet | Informational space;Periphery;Peripheralization;Global South;Urbanisation;Digitalisation;Data politics;Southern theory;Urban theory;Infrastructure thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography::RGCU Settlement, urban and rural geography thema EDItEUR::U Computing and Information Technology::UB Information technology: general topics::UBJ Digital and information technologies: social and ethical aspects |
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