Note: the above article piece is not completely about our research but includes some aspects and link to it. There are things here that do not completely reflect our position -

Link to our original paper here - doi.org/10.1177/1024...

sounds good! will look forward.

Thanks Lin! Excited to see the special issue(s) coming out.
I really wanted to attend the GCEG but had to pull out.The sessions looked great. Will love to do more work on innovation/tech development and leapfrogging in/from the global South. Be in touch :)

#leapfrogging #digitalAsia #politicaleconomy #services-led-development, #growthmodels #Asiandevelopmentmodels

I will be expanding on this work in the future from a more empirical national historical perspective of India's (digital) tech development. Promise I have it wirtten already 😂

Published in the special issue Platform Economies in Digital Asia thanks to @elainejyuan.bsky.social & @linzhang.bsky.social, who persisted.

📌 "Conjunctural thinking" Shifts emerge from crisis, contingency, and agency

Rather than another grand model, CPPE is a decolonizing analytical praxis.

Give it a read:
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/2056...
#CPPE #DigitalAsia #CriticalGeography #PostcolonialStudies #TechPolitics #DevTheory

CPPE pivots on three core concepts:

📌 "Social blocs" - Tech development is shaped by shifting coalitions of state- society actors
📌 "Plural temporalities" Instead of linear stages, CPPE sees overlapping historical-political rhythms

&...

To challenge these assumptions, I propose Critical Postcolonial Political Economy (CPPE) approach.
A pluralist confluence of known frames in:

- Critical political economy
- Postcolonial / heterdox economic geographies
- Conjunctural analysis

Enter postcolonial critique: e.g. Raghuram et al. 2013 Chakravartty (2004), Jazeel (2019) etc. who show development outcomes are ongoing shaped by uneven social and spatial power relations, but also resistance (agency), contingency, crisis and coalitions or social blocs.

Growth models presume linear, teleological, technocratic progress, undermining asymmetric regional integration,histories & socio-political contestations that continously shape tech transformations. Developmental models essentialize state (&society) ignoring contested alliances/ subaltern agency.

The piece challenges mainstream models framing Asia’s rise through familiar lens: tech-led growth, rational institutions, state-managed 🌏 integration ("Asian Miracle”, “Asian Century”). Instead it foregrounds conflict contradictions, context in how tech leapfrogging is imagined, governed, resisted.

could be of interest... @pcc-global.bsky.social @platformsnsociety.bsky.social @karengregory.bsky.social @towardsfairwork.bsky.social

Thanks @floriangrant.bsky.social for the engagement. Good to connect. We have focussed on informal labour organising in context of india gig economy movements quite directly - tracing back to other informal workers movements in India and globally (like WIEGO) - would be good to have reflections.

Follow the co-author of the paper and collaborator - Aju @islandexpress.bsky.social