Asian Journal of Law and Society· 2026Q2
Data Hegemony and Digital Enclaves: Lawscape Analysis of Taiwan’s Urban Data Governance
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Short summary
Taiwan's urban data governance shows how concentrated data control creates spatial power, with "data hegemony" manifesting as coercive surveillance in Taipei (leading to healthcare denial, stigmatization) and service-integrated surveillance in Kaohsiung (improving crowd management).
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Key points
- Introduces "data hegemony" and "digital enclaves" to analyze urban data governance.
- Taipei's COVID-19 surveillance (Wanhua) shows coercive data hegemony leading to healthcare denial, stigmatization, and economic loss.
- Kaohsiung's concert management shows service-integrated data hegemony improving services and generating economic benefits.
- The framework captures collective spatial effects of algorithmic categorization beyond individual privacy.
- Findings have implications for democratic oversight in digitized cities.
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Abstract
Abstract Taiwan’s urban data governance reveals how concentrated data control creates spatial power through subtle mechanisms. This article introduces “data hegemony” and “digital enclaves” to examine COVID-19 surveillance in Taipei’s Wanhua district and concert management in Kaohsiung. Wanhua demonstrates coercive data hegemony—comprehensive surveillance under emergency powers that create visible harms (healthcare denial, spatial stigmatisation, and economic losses)—which enables civil society to contest through legal challenges. Kaohsiung demonstrates service-integrated data hegemony—surveillance embedded within service provision delivering genuine improvements (efficient crowd management, optimised facilities, and economic benefits) that foreclose contestation through satisfaction. This framework addresses critical gaps in privacy-centric and state-surveillance approaches by capturing how algorithmic categorisation produces collective spatial effects transcending individual privacy violations, with implications for democratic oversight in digitised cities.
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