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Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Across Central Asia, governments are deploying surveillance technologies in the name of progress. This book offers a sharp, close-up look at digital authoritarianism, state power and everyday life in a region of global significance.
Price: $44.95
Pages: 240
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Imprint: Bristol University Press
Publication Date:
01 July 2027
ISBN: 9781529257007
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies, Impact of science and technology on society, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Privacy & Surveillance (see also POLITICAL SCIENCE / Privacy & Surveillance), Political structures / systems: autocracy, totalitarianism and dictatorship
Jasmin Dall’Agnola is Senior Research and Teaching Associate in the Department of Communication and Media Research at the University of Zurich.
Introduction
1. Geopolitics of Smart Cities: Competing Visions for Central Asia’s Smart Future
2. Hopes, Fears, and Realities of Smart Cities in Authoritarian Contexts
3. The One Who is Informed is Armed
4. Can You KASPI? Central Asia’s FinTech Ecosystem
5. Being Watched or Being Protected? CCTV Cameras in Central Asia
Conclusion