Privacy Techtonics

Feminist Geopolitics of Privacy, WhatsApp and Democracy in India

Philippa Williams, Lipika Kamra (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2026
Bristol University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5292-3596-8 (ISBN)

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Today, privacy is more than a personal choice—it’s a terrain shaped by power, politics and everyday life.

This book shifts the lens from established western narratives to India, WhatsApp’s largest market, exploring how digital privacy is lived, built, and regulated on the world’s digital peripheries. Drawing on rich field-based research, it examines encrypted technologies, the ties between big tech and governments, and the role of messaging apps in political life.

This is a sharp and grounded account of how privacy can both strengthen and erode democracy in the digital age.

Philippa Williams is Professor of Geography at Queen Mary University of London. Lipika Kamra is Assistant Professor of Politics at the University of Birmingham.

1. “The future is private”: Privacy techtonics, feminist digital geopolitics and the everyday

2. India, WhatsApp and privacy architectures

3. Digitising (party) political intimacies

4. Dwelling in the ‘digital living room’

5. Neighbourhood governance by WhatsApp

6. Conclusion: The future of digital private spaces now

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.5.2026
Zusatzinfo	3 Illustrations, black and white
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-5292-3596-0 / 1529235960
ISBN-13	978-1-5292-3596-8 / 9781529235968
Zustand	Neuware