Technology and Governance Beyond the State : The Rule of Non-Law (Hardcover)

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 Non-State Law and Technology: Theory and Themes

Section I: Tradition and Modernity

Chapter 2 Digitalising Traditions: Custom, Land, Biodiversity and Resource Management in Vanuatu

Chapter 3 Tradition, Tussle, and Technology: the Khap Panchayat’s guide to regulating mobile phones in India

Chapter 4 ‘Crowdfarming’ in South Africa: Using Platform Technology to Connect Tradition and Modernity

Section II: Borderlands

Chapter 5 The Regulation of Cross-border Trading of Mobile Phones in the Ethio-Somaliland Corridor

Chapter 6 Ambivalent state governance and counter-governance: Migrants on the move in the France-UK techno-borderscape

Chapter 7 Moderating Digital Communities in Hybrid Governance Contexts: The case of refugees’ digital inclusion and communication in Nairobi

Chapter 8 The Legal Geographies of Thailand’s Technology Markets

Part III: Challenges to the State

Chapter 9 Performative State building in the Digital World: ISIS and Monetary Economics

Chapter 10 The role of the mobile network operators in conflicting governance systems:?A case study of the mobile telecommunications industry in Afghanistan?

Chapter 11 Informality and the Internet: Alternative Versions of Technological Governance in Brazil

Part IV: Digital Spaces

Chapter 12 ?Decentralized governance opportunities in the energy sector: Examples from blockchain-based initiatives

Chapter 13 Manufacturing legitimacy:? Content Moderation and the Absence of the State

Chapter 14 Conclusions and Reflections on the Future of Technology and Regulation in Areas of Limited Statehood

Index