Scholars have drawn attention to educational spaces as sites of contestation and struggle. Researchers have increasingly scrutinised the power structures and relations that shape educational spaces, particularly in the mobilisation of education to further the economic competitiveness of nation-states. Adopting a dispositif lens, our ethnographic study examines digital business education in a North Korean university. In doing so, we uncover the unstable interplay between a dispositif of paternalist care and a dispositif of discipline, which are both required by the regime to control the development of new digital capabilities, examining the techniques used to develop and restrict digital education. In conclusion, our paper develops new understanding of how digital capabilities, through education, are simultaneously enabled and constrained, and how dispositifs differentially unfold across space.

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展开部署：朝鲜数字商业教育的尝试

学者们将教育空间视为争论和斗争的场所。研究人员越来越多地审视塑造教育空间的权力结构和关系，特别是在动员教育以提高民族国家的经济竞争力方面。我们的人种学研究采用处置镜头，考察了朝鲜一所大学的数字商业教育。在此过程中，我们揭示了家长式关怀和纪律之间不稳定的相互作用，这两者都是该政权控制新数字能力发展所必需的，并研究了用于开发和限制数字教育的技术。总之，我们的论文对如何通过教育同时启用和限制数字能力，以及如何在空间中差异化地展开数字能力提出了新的理解。