Contested Spatialities of Digital Sovereignty

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ID3948615
AuthorsG Glasze (0000-0002-2508-3637, Research Group Discourses and Practices of a Digital Sovereignty & Institute of Geography, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany, corresponding author), Amaël Cattaruzza (0000-0002-5683-1968, Research Group Geopolitics of the Datasphere (GEODE) & Institut Français de Géopolitique, Université Paris 8, Paris, France), Frédérick Douzet (0000-0002-2516-439X, Research Group Geopolitics of the Datasphere (GEODE) & Institut Français de Géopolitique, Université Paris 8, Paris, France), Finn Dammann (0000-0002-5387-4065, Research Group Discourses and Practices of a Digital Sovereignty & Institute of Geography, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany), Marie-Gabrielle Bertran (0000-0003-3225-8324, Research Group Geopolitics of the Datasphere (GEODE) & Institut Français de Géopolitique, Université Paris 8, Paris, France), Clotilde Bômont (0009-0003-3733-2527, GEODE & Ecole doctorale de Géographie, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France), Matthias Braun (0000-0002-6687-6027, Research Group Discourses and Practices of a Digital Sovereignty & Young Researchers Group “Ethics and Governance of Emerging Technologies”, FAU, Erlangen, Germany), Didier Danet (0000-0001-6554-3370, GEODE & Université de Rennes 1), Alix Desforges (Research Group Geopolitics of the Datasphere (GEODE) & Institut Français de Géopolitique, Université Paris 8, Paris, France), Aude Géry (Research Group Geopolitics of the Datasphere (GEODE) & Institut Français de Géopolitique, Université Paris 8, Paris, France), Stéphane Grumbach (0000-0003-2093-2262, GEODE & INRIA – Institut National de Recherche en Sciences et Technologies du Numérique, France), Patrik Hummel (0000-0001-9668-0810, Philosphy & Ethics Group; Department of Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands), Kevin Limonier (0000-0002-2686-032X, Research Group Geopolitics of the Datasphere (GEODE) & Institut Français de Géopolitique, Université Paris 8, Paris, France), Max Münßinger (0009-0004-7359-3676, Research Group Discourses and Practices of a Digital Sovereignty & Institute of Geography, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany), Florian Nicolai (0009-0003-2074-4402, Research Group Discourses and Practices of a Digital Sovereignty & Research Training Group: Cybercrime and Forensic Computing, The Institute of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and Criminology at FAU, Erlangen, Germany), Louis Pétiniaud (0000-0002-1961-7006, Research Group Geopolitics of the Datasphere (GEODE) & Institut Français de Géopolitique, Université Paris 8, Paris, France), Jan Winkler (0000-0002-9558-2052, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg), Caroline Zanin (0000-0003-4458-870X, GEODE & École normale supérieure de Lyon, Lyon, France)
Year2023
Volume28
Issue2
Pages919-958
Publication date2023-03-15
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeopolitics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1465-0045 • E-ISSN: 1557-3028
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14650045.2022.2050070
OpenAlexW4226347367
LanguageEN
Citations received60
References cited55

“Digital sovereignty” has become a buzzword in digital policies. Contrary to the imaginary of digital transformation as preceding an era of limitless global networking in the 1990s, approaches to state regulation and delimitation of data flows as well as programmes for national digital infrastructures are justified with calls for digital sovereignty across very different contexts. This forum brings together contributions from political geography, law, computer science, and ethics that compare and analyse discourses and practices of digital sovereignty. The case studies on Russia and the EU reveal parallels as well as fundamental differences in the conception and implementation of digital sovereignty. Essays on the challenges posed by new forms of cross-border interaction (such as cloud computing) and new actors (such as digital platforms) illustrate that the traditional coupling of concepts of sovereignty, territoriality and the state, of jurisdiction and borders, must be rethought. The essays in this forum thus make it clear that the digital transformation is not simply a socio-technical modernisation process. It is rather shaped in specific ways and should be understood and analysed as (geo)-political discourses and practices. The forum contributes to the development of a political digital geography that analyses how the digital transformation is contested and produced in specific ways and unearths the politics and spatialities conceived and produced in these discourses and practices

Digital transformation · Jurisdiction · Modernization theory · Parallels · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sovereignty · Computer Science · Cybersecurity and Cyber Warfare Studies · Engineering · Law · Legal and Policy Issues · Privacy, Security, and Data Protection

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