[Commlist] New Book: Digital Sovereignty in the BRICS Countries

/Digital Sovereignty in the BRICS Countries: How the Global South and 
Emerging Power Alliances Are Reshaping Digital Governance /(Cambridge 
University Press, 2025, Edited by Min Jiang and Luca Belli)

In a world where digital development and policymaking are dominated by 
Silicon Valley tech giants, the BRICS countries - Brazil, Russia, India, 
China, and South Africa - play an increasingly important role. With 
forty percent of the world's population and twenty-five percent of 
global GDP, these nations possess vast troves of personal data. Yet, 
their conceptions, narratives, and initiatives of digital sovereignty 
remain understudied. This volume is the first to explore digital 
sovereignty from a Global South perspective and offers a forward-looking 
take on what a world less dependent on Silicon Valley might look like. 
It brings together excellent analyses of BRICS digital sovereignty 
issues, from historical imaginaries to up-to-date conceptualizations, 
e-payment to smart cities, legal analysis to geopolitical assessment. By 
offering neglected perspectives from the Global South, this book makes 
important contributions to the digital sovereignty debate.

*Table of Contents and Downloading Link: *

Free downloading link: 
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Chapter 1 Introduction by Min Jiang and Luca Belli

"Contesting Digital Sovereignty: Untangling a Complex and Multifaceted 
Concept"

Part I - State-centric Formations of Digital Sovereignty

Chapter 2 by Johannes Thumfart

"Digital Sovereignty in China, Russia, and India: From NWICO to SCO and 
BRICS"

Chapter 3 by Wanshu Cong

"The Spatial Expansion of China’s Digital Sovereignty: 
Extraterritoriality and Geopolitics"

Chapter 4 by Enrico Calandro

"South African Digital Sovereignty at the Crossroad of Securitization 
and Development"

Part II - Techno-economic Structurings of Digital Sovereignty

Chapter 5 by Venkatesh Hariharan and Sarayu Natarajan

"Digital Sovereignty and Payments: A Case Study of the National Payments 
Corporation of India"

Chapter 6 by Vashishtha Doshi and Henrique Estides Delgado

"Digital Statecraft of Middle Powers: Tech Landscape and Digital 
Sovereignty in Brazil and India"

Chapter 7 by Stefano Calzati

"A Modulated Approach to Digital Sovereignty: Exploring Huawei-Led Smart 
City Initiatives in South Africa and Italy"

Part III - Grassroots Contestations of Digital Sovereignty

Chapter 8 by Olga Bronnikova, Françoise Daucé, Ksenia Ermoshina, Valéry 
Kossov, Benjamin Loveluck, Francesca Musiani, Bella Ostromooukhova, 
Perrine Poupin, Anna Zaytseva

"Circumventing the 'Sovereignization' of the Russian Internet pp 167-189 
Toward an Infrastructure-Based Sociology of Digital Sovereignty and Its 
Resistances in Russia"

Chapter 9 by Tales Tomaz

"Brazilian Activism in Mastodon: Sovereignty Discourses between 
Cyberlibertarianism and State-Centrism"

Chapter 10 Conclusion by Luca Belli and Min Jiang

"Digital Sovereignty in the BRICS: Structuring Self-Determination, 
Cybersecurity, and Control"

*Hard Copy Discounts*

In case hard copies are preferred, one can order from 
www.cambridge.org/9781009531122 <http://www.cambridge.org/9781009531122> 
and enter the code DSBC2024 upon checkout. The paperback, after 
discount, is $33.59 till September 2025.

Min Jiang & Luca Belli

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