Regional Futures: The territorial politics of digitalisation-as-urbanisation in the global south

Project Information

REGFUT

Grant agreement ID: 101019318

DOI

10.3030/101019318

EC signature date 21 August 2021

Start date 1 January 2022

End date 31 December 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 499 862,00

EU contribution

€ 2 499 862,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
United Kingdom

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Publications

Book chapters (3)

Peripheralised Labour: The digitisation of Nairobi’s land information system

Author(s): Ayona Datta, Dennis M Muthama
Published in: Informational Peripheries: Rethinking the urban in a digital age, 2025
Publisher: UCL Press

Informational peripheries by design: Land, layer, and leverage in Metropolitan Area of Guadalajara (MAG)

Author(s): Juan Demerutis, Ayona Datta, Jesus Flores
Published in: Informational Peripheries Rethinking the urban in a digital age, 2025
Publisher: UCL Press

Informational peripheries by design: land, layer, and leverage in Metropolitan Area of Guadalajara (MAG)

Author(s): Juan Demerutis Arenas, Ayona Datta, Jesus Flores
Published in: 2025
Publisher: UCL Press

Other (1)

Policy Directions for Land Digitalisation in Kenya

Author(s): Ayona Datta, Fenna Imara Hoefsloot, Mariana Reyes Carranza
Published in: 2025
Publisher: REGFUT

Peer reviewed articles (8)

The digitalising state: Governing digitalisation-as-urbanisation in the global south

Author(s): Ayona Datta
Published in: Progress in Human Geography, 2022, ISSN 0309-1325
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/03091325221141798

Timing the state

Author(s): Ayona Datta, Fenna Imara Hoefsloot
Published in: Dialogues on Digital Society, 2025, ISSN 2976-8640
Publisher: Sage Journals
DOI: 10.1177/29768640251320737

The state as auteur: Timing digitisation in Africa’s Silicon Savannah

Author(s): Ayona Datta; Fenna Hoefsloot
Published in: Dialogues in Digital Society, 2024, ISSN 2976-8640
Publisher: Sage
DOI: 10.1177/29768640241295479

NAVIGATING STATE SPACES: Methodological Insights and Reflections from Research in India, Mexico and Kenya

Author(s): Mariana Reyes Carranza, Fenna Imara Hoefsloot, Neha Gupta, Dennis Mbugua Muthama, Jesus Flores
Published in: International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2025, ISSN 0309-1317
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.13309

Contestation, negotiation, and experimentation: The liminality of land administration platforms in Kenya

Author(s): Fenna Imara Hoefsloot Catherine Gateri
Published in: Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2024, ISSN 0263-7758
Publisher: Pion Ltd.
DOI: 10.1177/02637758241254943

Urban sprawl and the automation of building control in the peripheries of Nairobi

Author(s): Mariana Reyes-Carranza, Dennis Mbugua Muthama
Published in: Urban Geography, 2025, Page(s) 1-17, ISSN 0272-3638
Publisher: V.H. Winston and Sons, Inc.
DOI: 10.1080/02723638.2025.2450307

Sorting Paper: Archival labour of digitising land records in Kenya

Author(s): Ayona Datta, Dennis M Muthama
Published in: The Geographical Journal, Issue 2, 2024, ISSN 0016-7398
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/geoj.12581

Broker bureaucracies: The subsidiary offices of the digitalizing state

Author(s): Fenna Imara Hoefsloot, Neha Gupta, Dennis Mbugua Muthama, José de Jesús Flores Durán
Published in: Digital Geography and Society, Issue 8, 2025, Page(s) 100112, ISSN 2666-3783
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.diggeo.2025.100112

Monographic books (1)

Informational Peripheries: Rethinking the urban in a digital age

Author(s): Ayona Datta, Fenna Imara Hoefsloot
Published in: 2025
Publisher: UCL Press
DOI: 10.14324/111.9781800088894

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

Infrastructural times: Temporality and the making of global urban worlds

Author(s): Fenna Imara Hoefsloot
Published in: Space and Polity, 2025, Page(s) 1-3, ISSN 1356-2576
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/13562576.2025.2467725