This article involves an analysis of the transformations occurring in assemblages of power, technologies, identities, and territories. The publication is authored by Jule Goikoetxea (UPV/EHU), Ekaitz Cancela (UOC-CNSC), and Aitor Jiménez (Melbourne University and CNSC visitor).
National sovereignty has traditionally functioned as a capability that has bound people and the state together through a specific amalgamation of power technologies, rights, identities, and territories. This publication aims to scrutinize how these amalgamations are evolving in the global capitalist era. This is a period in which nation-building intersects with new digital technologies, giving rise to processes of digital nation-building.
The article explores the meaning of digital nation-building and its implications for democratic sovereignty. It delves into how ‘the national’ unfolds within emerging digital territories. Also examines how states, which have privatized national resources and territories, are digitizing the concept of the nation in the twenty-first century.