1st Edition
Technology and Governance Beyond the State The Rule of Non-Law
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Non-State Law and Technology: Theory and Themes
Nicole Stremlau and Clara Voyvodic Casabó
Part I: Tradition and Modernity
Chapter 2 Digitalising Traditions: Custom, Land, Biodiversity, and Resource Management in Vanuatu
Francis Hickey and Daniel Robinson
Chapter 3 Tradition, Tussle, and Technology: The Khap Panchayat’s Guide to Regulating Mobile Phones in India
Nishanth Vasanth Kumar
Chapter 4 ‘Crowdfarming’ in South Africa: Using Platform Technology to Connect Tradition and Modernity
Andrew Hutchinson
Part II: Borderlands
Chapter 5 The Regulation of Cross-Border Trading of Mobile Phones in the Ethio-Somaliland Corridor
Asnake Kefale
Chapter 6 Ambivalent State Governance and Counter-Governance: Migrants on the Move in the France-UK Techno-Borderscape
Giorgia Doná and Marie Godin
Chapter 7 Moderating Digital Communities in Hybrid Governance Contexts: Refugees’ Digital Inclusion and Communication in Nairobi
Charles Martin-Shields
Chapter 8 The Legal Geographies of Thailand’s Technology Markets
Daniel Robinson and Duncan McDuie-Ra
Part III: Challenges to the State
Chapter 9 Performative State Building in the Digital World: ISIS and Monetary Economics
Ayse Deniz Lokmanoglu
Chapter 10 The Role of the Mobile Network Operators in Conflicting Governance Systems: The Mobile Telecommunications Industry in Afghanistan
Sameer Azizi
Chapter 11 Informality and the Internet: Alternative Versions of Technological Governance in Brazil
Jeffrey Omari and Jason Bartholomew Scott
Part IV: Digital Spaces
Chapter 12 Decentralized Governance Opportunities in the Energy Sector: Examples from Blockchain-Based Initiatives
Andres Diaz Valdivia and Marta Poblet Balcell
Chapter 13 Manufacturing Legitimacy: The Meta Oversight Board and the Absence of the State
Monroe E. Price and Joshua Martin Price
Chapter 14 Boundaries and Liminalities: Reflections on Navigating Technology and Authorities
Nicole Stremlau and Clara Voyvodic Casabó
Index
Biography
Nicole Stremlau is the Head of the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy at the University of Oxford’s Centre for Socio-Legal Studies and Research Professor in the School of Communications at the University of Johannesburg.
Clara Voyvodic Casabó is a Lecturer in Peace Studies and International Development in the Department of Peace and International Development, University of Bradford.
