‘Ordinary’ infrastructural politics in the digital-administrative state

Statecraft, Sovereignty and Digital Government, Goldsmiths, University of London, 16–17 April 2026

This talk investigates the multilevel infrastructural politics between municipal, state, and national levels that shape digital statecraft. It complements important research on the consequential politics of digital administrative practice for citizens, with an emphasis on – in the words of Susan Leigh Star and Martha Lampland – the ‘boring backstage elements’ of digital statecraft. This talk suggests that governance frictions, issues over standards and technical interfaces, and translation work, though less visible, form sites of ordinary politics that shape how the digital-administrative state materializes.

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