Control, shift, govern

Ayona Datta is Professor in Human Geography at University College LondonMariana Reyes Carranza is Postdoctoral Research Associate at University College London

• Introduction: Control, shift, governPart I. Control: Legacies and temporalities1. Timing the state: Land digitisation in Africa’s Silicon Savannah2. Zhi-Jie as the embodied statecraft of mapping in Taiwan’s ‘One Nation One Map’ (ONOM) digitalisation initiative3. ‘Amrit Kaal’ [The elixir of time]: Decolonial myths of a digitalising statePart II. Shift: Digital pivot4. A tale of two frictions: Time, missions and urban climate transitions5. Planning for digital futures: Seeing beyond the digitalising state6. Entrepreneurship in the digitalising state: When Union Digital Centres fuse with patronage politics in Bangladesh7. Broker bureaucracies: The subsidiary offices of the digitalising statePart III. Govern: Data, information and automation8. The state at risk: Automation and algorithmic governmentality in Latin America9. Digital governance on the edge: Automating building control in the peripheries of Nairobi10. The back and front stage of digital-urban statecraft in Cape Town, South Africa: Choreographed performances and bureaucratic software systems11. The digital border: Assemblages of mobility, mediation and controlEpilogue: The time-space of digitalisation

Bringing together geographers, sociologists, media researchers, anthropologists and more, Control, shift, govern marks a new generation of scholarship grappling with the digital as an irreducible fact of governance across local, urban, regional, national and transnational spaces.– Aaron Shapiro, author of Design, Control, Predict: Logistical Governance in the Smart City