Contents
Special Acknowledgments: Institutional Sponsors for Open Access
1Introduction: Contesting Digital Sovereignty: Untangling a Complex and Multifaceted Concept
Part IITechno-economic Structurings of Digital Sovereignty
5Digital Sovereignty and Payments: A Case Study of the National Payments Corporation of India
6Digital Statecraft of Middle Powers: Tech Landscape and Digital Sovereignty in Brazil and India
7A Modulated Approach to Digital Sovereignty: Exploring Huawei-Led Smart City Initiatives in South Africa and Italy
Part IIIGrassroots Contestations of Digital Sovereignty
8Circumventing the “Sovereignization” of the Russian Internet: Toward an Infrastructure-Based Sociology of Digital Sovereignty and Its Resistances in Russia
9Brazilian Activism in Mastodon: Sovereignty Discourses between Cyberlibertarianism and State-Centrism
10Conclusion: Digital Sovereignty in the BRICS: Structuring Self-Determination, Cybersecurity, and Control