More-than-local, more-than-mobile

The smart city effect in South Africa

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8944239
AutoresOla Söderström (0000-0002-7111-8765, University of Neuchâtel, autor de correspondencia), Evan Blake (University of Neuchâtel), Nancy Odendaal (0000-0003-0706-1247, University of Cape Town)
Año2021
Volumen122
Páginas103-117
Fecha de publicación2021-04-30
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaGeoforum (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0016-7185 • E-ISSN: 1872-9398
EditorialElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.03.017
OpenAlexW3158637036
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas24
Referencias citadas62

This paper explores how the smart city phenomenon becomes nearly ubiquitous in countries and cities around the world. Drawing on policy mobility studies and cosmopolitisation – defined as globalization from within – it focuses on the roll-out and take-up of smart city narratives and interventions in South Africa since 2005. Based on a media analysis on national and local scales, the paper shows that the smart city effect is an entangled phenomenon. Generally speaking, it consists of a lexical glue that holds together processes of data-driven neoliberalisation of urban governance. However, at municipal level we observe more variegated effects of reverse-scale policymaking, labelling and territorialisation where the smart city appears as a more-than-mobile but also as a more-than-local urban policy

Business · Corporate governance · Economic geography · Geography · Globalization · Internet of Things · Internet privacy · Narrative · Phenomenon · Political science · Psychological intervention · Regional science · Smart city · Sociology · Computer Science · E-Government and Public Services · Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development · Smart Cities and Technologies