Producing "Enemy Intelligence": Information Infrastructure and the Smart City in Northwest China.
Infrastructure power announces the priorities of a state: who and what is authorized to move and act, whose lives and what materials have significance. In the colonial context of the Uyghur region in Northwest China, surveillance systems—checkpoints, cameras, digital forensic tools, and nearly sixty...
| Publicado en: | Information & Culture Vol. 57; no. 2; pp. 1 - 22 |
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University of Texas Press
2022
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