[TechSovereignty] New publication (Policy & Internet): Concept 'stretching' or concept innovation? A review of the usages of sovereignty in the digital sovereignty literature

[Eric REPETTO]

Dear all,

I am glad to share my latest article on digital/technological sovereignty
published with *Policy & Internet* (
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/poi3.70011).

The article is a detailed review across disciplines of how sovereignty is
declined in the literature on digital/tech sovereignty, and how
said literature deals with a proliferation of "sovereigns" from states and
the EU to individuals and social movements. In it I identify the boundaries
of several clusters in the literature, which have developed their own
understandings of digital sovereignty around certain subjects while
excluding others.

In the article I argue that it is this clusterization that risks emptying
out the meaning of sovereignty in the literature, rather than the plurality
of sovereigns per se. When the plurality is acknowledged, we can see how
both digital sovereignty and sovereignty as a whole are eminently
relational concepts, even when claimed by state actors to fragment the
Internet. For this reason, the article questions the need to either return
to a more stringent definition of sovereignty in the literature, or to
"unthink" digital sovereignty, and ultimately calls for more conversation
between different strands of research.

I hope some among you may find it interesting and useful, and I would be
glad to hear your thoughts.

Kind regards,
Eric Repetto
PhD candidate, Sciences Po
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