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| Title | Becoming Digital Citizens: Covid-19 And Urban Citizenship Regimes In India |
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| ID_Doc | 11757 |
| Authors | Kylasam Iyer D.; Kuriakose F. |
| Year | 2023 |
| Published | Citizenship Studies, 27, 2 |
| DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2022.2077569 |
| Abstract | This article examines how technopolitical response to covid-19 resulted in differentiated urban citizenship regimes in India’s smart cities. Using Isin and Ruppert’s framework, we argue that India’s digital citizens enacted their subjectivities in response to acts of calling, closing and opening in the cyberspace. Acts of calling encouraged citizens to participate and engage with the state online, systematically excluding those who did not have access to digital infrastructures. Acts of closing were implemented through the technologies of the surveillance state diminishing rights of freedom and privacy. In response, digital citizens enacted their political subjectivities through acts of opening by means of online campaigns, petitions and citizen journalism. Although the risk of technocracy remains real, we argue that the interplay of calling, closing and opening digital acts enabled the enactment of digital citizenship in India by raising the old questions of social citizenship rights and new forms of data and digital rights. © 2022 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. |
| Author Keywords | covid-19; Digital citizenship; India; inequality; smart cities |
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