Professor Mark Graham’s edited book, Digital Economies at Global Margins, available now

Green Templeton’s Senior Research Fellow Mark Graham examines the impact of the world’s digital transformation is his new edited book, available now.

Digital Economies at Global Margins, published by MIT Press and International Development Research Centre, investigates the impact of increasing digital connectivity on people and places at the world’s economic margins, asking whether that connectivity helps transcend existing constraints, or reinforces existing inequalities.

More than one billion people over the last five years have become new internet users, with digital connectivity no longer restricted to wealthier countries.

Mark’s book features authors from diverse disciplines and locations, providing various global case studies on the impact of digitalisation and a broad range of theoretical positions.

Topics examined by the contributors include women’s economic empowerment and gendered power relations, digital humanitarianism and philanthropic capitalism, and the digital gig economy.

Mark said: “The world is becoming digital, digitised, and digitally mediated at an astonishing pace. This book asks how those in economic margins impact, and are impacted by, those changes.”

“It was a pleasure working with so many brilliant thinkers and scholars who produced the critical and cutting-edge research you’ll find in the book,” he added. “A huge thanks to all of the authors who contributed.”

Digital Economies at Global Margins is available to download as a free PDF here or order in print.

Find out more about Mark’s book here.

Mark Graham is Senior Research Fellow at Green Templeton College; Professor of Internet Geography at the Oxford Internet Institute; Director of the Fairwork Foundation; a Faculty Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute; and an Associate in the University of Oxford’s School of Geography and the Environment.