Digital transformations are reconfiguring our understanding of territory and reshaping how we experience place and space. Digital Territorialities rethinks digitality through the lens of territoriality, examining how formations across material and mediated environments both shape and are shaped by existing power relations. Drawing on case studies spanning the Middle East, the book captures the uneven processes through which spatial authority is produced and negotiated among infrastructures, states, markets, and publics. These processes generate techno-cultural geographies in which technological systems and sociocultural logics converge, entangling the physical with the symbolic and the local with the transnational. Combining theoretical insight with empirical analysis, the book traces these dynamics across cultural and creative industries and platform economies, showing how access, circulation, and control are organized. Digital Territorialities positions the Middle East as a critical site for rethinking the spatial politics of digitality within and beyond the Global South.

‘The notion of ‘territoriality’ centers spatiality and power in understanding a seemingly seamless digital world. The authors of this ground-breaking volume have long pioneered the study of the mediated realities of the Arab region, and how its ruptures, disorder, growth and creativity are digitally enabled, negotiated, and resisted. A must-read.’Seteney Shami, Director General, Arab Council for the Social Sciences (Beirut)

‘Physical and political boundaries are criss-crossed by technologies, global firms and flows of people, resources and data. Structurally uneven and politically contested, this book insists on the infrastructure underpinning even the most transient of technologies. A powerful and compelling guide to the new geographies of a complex region.’Stuart Elden, Professor of Political Theory and Geography, University of Warwick