1. Introduction: Technology, Power and Storytelling 2. Infrastructure 3. Social Media and Information Wars 4. Digital Assets, Distributed Ledgers 5. E-governance and Unique ID in India 6. China’s Technopolitical Trajectory 7. The Shock and Awe of Open AI 8. The Digital, the Real and the Virtual
Biography
Åshild Kolås is a social anthropologist and Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo. She has carried out fieldwork in multi-ethnic communities in India and China, and has written on Tibet, Nepal, Inner Mongolia and Northeast India with a focus on governance and governmentality, identity politics, discourse and representation. Her previous publications with Routledge include Women, Peace and Security in Myanmar: Between Feminism and Ethnopolitics (2019), Sovereignty Revisited: The Basque Case (2017, co-edited with Pedro Ibarra Güell) and Tourism and Tibetan Culture in Transition. A Place Called Shangrila (2008).
