Datta, Ayona and Hoefsloot, Fenna Imara (Eds).
(2025)
Informational Peripheries: Rethinking the urban in a digital age.
UCL Press: London, UK.
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Abstract
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.
| Type: | Book |
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| Title: | Informational Peripheries: Rethinking the urban in a digital age |
| ISBN-13: | 9781800088894 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781800088894 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800088894 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Collection © Editors, 2025 Text © Contributors, 2025 Any third-party material in this book is not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence. Details of the copyright ownership and permitted use of third-party material is given in the image (or extract) credit lines. Every effort has been made to identify and contact copyright holders and any omission or error will be corrected if notification is made to the publisher. If you would like to reuse any third-party material not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright owner. This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nc/4.0/. This licence allows you to share and adapt the work for non-commercial use providing attribution is made to the author and publisher (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work) and any changes are indicated. Attribution should include the following information: Datta, A and Hoefsloot, F.I. (eds.) 2025. Informational Peripheries: Rethinking the urban in a digital age. London, UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800088894 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ |
| Keywords: | informational space, periphery, urbanisation, Global South |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Geography |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10211579 |
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