Digital Sovereignty in the BRICS Countries
How the Global South and Emerging Power Alliances Are Reshaping Digital Governance
Published on 2. January 2025
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314 pages
978-1-009-53112-2 (ISBN)
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In a world where digital development and policymaking are dominated by Silicon Valley tech giants, the BRICS countries - Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa - play an increasingly important role. With forty percent of the world's population and twenty-five percent of global GDP, these nations possess vast troves of personal data. Yet, their conceptions, narratives, and initiatives of digital sovereignty remain understudied. This volume is the first to explore digital sovereignty from a Global South perspective and offers a forward-looking take on what a world less dependent on Silicon Valley might look like. It brings together excellent analyses of BRICS digital sovereignty issues, from historical imaginaries to up-to-date conceptualizations, e-payment to smart cities, legal analysis to geopolitical assessment. By offering neglected perspectives from the Global South, this book makes important contributions to the digital sovereignty debate. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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English
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Cambridge
United Kingdom
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College/higher education
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Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
512 gr
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978-1-009-53112-2 (9781009531122)
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Min Jiang | Luca Belli
Digital Sovereignty in the BRICS Countries
How the Global South and Emerging Power Alliances Are Reshaping Digital Governance
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Persons
Min Jiang is Professor of Communication Studies and an affiliate faculty member of International Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She is a secretariat member of the annual international Chinese Internet Research Conference (CIRC) and CyberBRICS Visiting Professor at FGV Law School (Rio, Brazil). Luca Belli is Professor of Digital Governance and Regulation at Fundacao Getulio Vargas (FGV) Law School, where he heads the Center for Technology and Society and the CyberBRICS project. He is editor of the journal International Data Privacy Law and Director of Computers, Privacy and Data Protection Conference Latin America (CPDP LatAm).
Content
Introduction; 1. Contesting digital sovereignty: untangling a complex and multifaceted concept Min Jiang and Luca Belli; Part I. State-centric Formations of Digital Sovereignty: 2. Sociotechnical imaginaries of digital sovereignty in China, Russia and India: from NWICO and WSIS to SCO and BRICS Johannes Thumfart; 3. The spatial expansion of China's digital sovereignty: extraterritoriality and geopolitics Wanshu Cong; 4. South African digital sovereignty at the crossroad of securitization and development Enrico Calandro; Part II. Techno-economic Structurings of Digital Sovereignty: 5. Digital sovereignty and payments: a case study of the National Payments Corporation of India Venkatesh Hariharan and Sarayu Natarajan; 6. Digital statecraft of middle powers: tech landscape and digital sovereignty in Brazil and India Vashishtha Doshi and Henrique Delgado; 7. A modulated approach to digital sovereignty: exploring Huawei-led smart city initiatives in South Africa and Italy Stefano Calzati; Part III. Grassroots Contestations of Digital Sovereignty: 8. Circumventing the 'sovereignisation' of the Russian internet: towards an infrastructure-based sociology of digital sovereignty and its resistances in Russia Olga Bronnikova, Francoise Dauce, Ksenia Ermoshina, Valery Kossov, Benjamin Loveluck, Francesca Musiani, Bella Ostromooukhova, Perrine Poupin and Anna Zaytseva; 9. Brazilian activism in Mastodon: sovereignty discourses between cyberlibertarianism and state-centrism Tales Tomaz; Conclusion; 10. Digital sovereignty from the BRICS structuring self-determination, cybersecurity, and control Luca Belli and Min Jiang.