This paper will investigate the emergence of a digitalising state in the global south through a
focus on new techniques of governance initiated by the information age. It will discuss the …

This theme issue investigates how 21st-century digital innovations are changing the nature
and value of land, housing, and property. Contributors bring together an array of cases to …

Scams are endemic to digital capitalism, whether they manifest as bitcoin bubbles or bullshit
jobs. Drawing on two years of digital ethnography in Myanmar's Facebook land markets, this …

A wide range of digital innovations has changed property relations globally over the past
fifteen years. What are we to make of these digital experiments with landed property? I argue …

This article engages with the work of Stuart Hall to examine conditions of agrarian city-
making on India's urban frontier. The article draws on Hall's writings on articulation and …

Amid the ongoing transformation of agrarian territories in peripheral geographies across the
world through extended urbanisation, this paper delves into the persistence of peasant and …

Nairobi's land digitisation programme presents continuous challenges to the Kenyan state's
aspirations of reforming land administration. By drawing upon insights from archival …

Property talk has gained a new amplitude amid soaring land prices in India's agrarian-urban
frontier. This article focuses on what is colloquially described as property ka kaam—property …

This Special Feature explores the negotiated bureaucratic politics shaping urbanization in
South Asia. City drafting refers to the flexible and contextual practices, procedures and …

Mumbai's municipal bureaucracy introduced an online complaints platform in 2016,
promising increased transparency and improved public service. This article argues that this …