Reimagining blockchain in a pluriversal world

Digital land governance in the Global South and the metaverse

Bibliographic Data

ID2248161
AuthorsD Rodima-Taylor (0000-0003-0749-7489, Center for Global Development), Daivi Rodima‐taylor, Malcolm Campbell‐verduyn (0000-0003-1081-5417, Center for Global Development)
Year2023
Volume39
Issue4
Pages17-20
Publication date2023-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnthropology Today (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0268-540X • E-ISSN: 1467-8322
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1467-8322.12828
OpenAlexW4385459784
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited21

Blockchain technologies are increasingly live-tested in experiments aimed at improving governance in a growing range of activities. A key question often lost amongst these efforts is whether such projects redistribute wealth and power, and, if so, in which ways. Examining the case of blockchain-based land governance, this contribution explores the tensions between ambitious visions and their actual scales of implementation around the redistributional promises of distributed ledger technologies. Bringing together the concepts of 'imaginaries' and 'infrastructures', we analyse land governance blockchainization emerging in the Global South and the metaverse. Identifying a contrast between imaginaries 'scaling up' redistributive promises yet tending to materialize in 'scaled-down' forms, we argue for more sustained attention to pluriversal perspectives that foreground local concerns and diverse voices

Blockchain · Computer security · Corporate governance · Economics · Management · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Vision · Anthropology · Blockchain Technology Applications and Security · Computer Science · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Water Governance and Infrastructure

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