The territorialization of cyberspace

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Abstract

There are widespread worries about the impending fragmentation of the internet. Reviewing the IR literature on cyberspace and internet governance, this paper demonstrates that these debates rest on very traditional understandings of territory and the state, focusing on ways that hard-shelled "power containers"are recreated in cyberspace. Using a practice-oriented conceptual framework drawing on insights from critical geography, the paper highlights how state, corporate, and private actors deterritorialize and reterritorialize cyberspace. Results indicate that there are multiple ways to territorialize cyberspace beyond the reconstruction of the "national territory"and that a multitude of actors engage in territorializing practices. This allows for a more nuanced reevaluation of the "internet fragmentation"discourse.

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LAMBACH, D. (2020). The territorialization of cyberspace. International Studies Review, 22(3), 482–506. https://doi.org/10.1093/isr/viz022

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