Samuel Mutter
Biographic Data
| ID | 254845 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samuel Mutter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samuel |
| FAMILY NAME | Mutter |
| SIGNATURE | MUTTER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Ireland, Maynooth |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9246-7147 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The digital turn in planning and the production of ‘good enough’ planning systems
The digitalization of planning has taken place in a context where planning work is on-going and cannot be halted, and in which there are embedded institutional and technical systems and practices, as well as a number of technical, regulatory and socio-cultural data frictions. This context has led to a sub-optimizing approach to digitalization. In this paper, we examine the digital mediation of planning through an in-depth case study of a multi-sc…
Reframing data activism: Towards a broader understanding of datafied social movements
Social movements are adapting to datafication in diverse and complex ways. This paper refines existing conceptualisations of datafied social movements by analysing how two organisations within Ireland's housing and just-city movements navigate datafication. Through a longitudinal comparative study of the Dublin Democratic Planning Alliance, an expert-driven advocacy network, and the Community Action Tenants Union, a grassroots, mass-membership un…
Assemblage theory, data systems and data ecosystems: The data assemblages of the Irish planning system
The work of the state has been transformed by digitalisation and datafication, with paper systems increasingly complemented and replaced by digital data systems. While much research has been undertaken on the effects of these data systems on e-government and e-governance, relatively little critical attention has been paid to the ontological nature of the data systems themselves, how they come into being, operate, iterate, and work in conjunction …
Genealogy of a data ecosystem: The digitalisation of planning development and control in Ireland, 2000–2024
In this paper, we document how a data ecosystem emerges and evolves as a socio-technical assemblage over a 25 year period charting its digitalisation as it transfers from a paper-based endeavour to one that is digitally mediated. Our case study is the development and control function (the management of the planning and construction pipeline from planning application, to appeals process, to building control) of the Irish planning system. We propos…
Breaking the continuum: Network aesthetics, infrastructural violence, and media responses to London Underground sexual harassment posters
Data mobilities: Rethinking the Movement and Circulation of Digital Data
International audience
Mobilities, design and passenger experiences
The encounter may not take place: Negative Geographies, Negative Mobilities
Mobilities scholarship has been shaped markedly by relational philosophies, exemplified by the event of encounter as a window through which to examine the vibrant potentiality of life. However, recent literature on the subject of 'negative geographies' has questioned the affirmationist tendencies underlying such perspectives, highlighting situations, processes and spaces characterised by insurmountable or recurrent vulnerability, exhaustion, disl…
Distribution, dis-sumption and dis-appointment: The negative geographies of city logistics
Critical approaches to logistics, in dialogue with geography and related disciplines, have exposed the turbulence behind apparently seamless transnational circulations of stuff. As everyday urban life becomes increasingly structured through logistical practices and expectations which imbricate consumption and distribution, now is an appropriate moment to take stock of these dialogues. Reviewing them, the article identifies three spatial assumptio…
Kin-aesthetics, ideology, and the cycling tour: The performance of territory in the Israeli Giro d'Italia
Addressing the strange case of the Israeli Giro d'Italia -wherein the opening stages of the Italian cycling tour's 2018 edition were hosted 2000 km away, by a country with little cycling heritage -the paper poses the question, not 'Why Israel?' but 'Why cycling?'. In response, it draws on theory at the intersection of mobilities, aesthetics, and ideology, together with an empirical analysis of the Israeli Giro's TV coverage, to claim that the cyc…
Subtracting and extracting circulation: Logistics as power in the digitisation of the London Underground
This paper traces the growing influence of logistics as power in the governance of the London Underground, a system of public transportation in the midst of multiple processes of digitisation, connecting trains and passengers deep below ground to systems of real-time monitoring and communication. Such processes are often explained through the framework of the ‘smart city’. However, the paper argues that this is an unsatisfactory approach which fa…
US counterterrorism measures since 9/11: The politics and morality of law and exception
Distribution, dis-sumption and dis-appointment: The negative geographies of city logistics
Critical approaches to logistics, in dialogue with geography and related disciplines, have exposed the turbulence behind apparently seamless transnational circulations of stuff. As everyday urban life becomes increasingly structured through logistical practices and expectations which imbricate consumption and distribution, now is an appropriate moment to take stock of these dialogues. Reviewing them, the article identifies three spatial assumptio…
Breaking the continuum: Network aesthetics, infrastructural violence, and media responses to London Underground sexual harassment posters
Kin-aesthetics, ideology, and the cycling tour: The performance of territory in the Israeli Giro d'Italia
Addressing the strange case of the Israeli Giro d'Italia -wherein the opening stages of the Italian cycling tour's 2018 edition were hosted 2000 km away, by a country with little cycling heritage -the paper poses the question, not 'Why Israel?' but 'Why cycling?'. In response, it draws on theory at the intersection of mobilities, aesthetics, and ideology, together with an empirical analysis of the Israeli Giro's TV coverage, to claim that the cyc…
Subtracting and extracting circulation: Logistics as power in the digitisation of the London Underground
This paper traces the growing influence of logistics as power in the governance of the London Underground, a system of public transportation in the midst of multiple processes of digitisation, connecting trains and passengers deep below ground to systems of real-time monitoring and communication. Such processes are often explained through the framework of the ‘smart city’. However, the paper argues that this is an unsatisfactory approach which fa…
Data mobilities: Rethinking the Movement and Circulation of Digital Data
International audience
The encounter may not take place: Negative Geographies, Negative Mobilities
Mobilities scholarship has been shaped markedly by relational philosophies, exemplified by the event of encounter as a window through which to examine the vibrant potentiality of life. However, recent literature on the subject of 'negative geographies' has questioned the affirmationist tendencies underlying such perspectives, highlighting situations, processes and spaces characterised by insurmountable or recurrent vulnerability, exhaustion, disl…
US counterterrorism measures since 9/11: The politics and morality of law and exception
Subtracting and extracting circulation: Logistics as power in the digitisation of the London Underground
This paper traces the growing influence of logistics as power in the governance of the London Underground, a system of public transportation in the midst of multiple processes of digitisation, connecting trains and passengers deep below ground to systems of real-time monitoring and communication. Such processes are often explained through the framework of the ‘smart city’. However, the paper argues that this is an unsatisfactory approach which fa…
Distribution, dis-sumption and dis-appointment: The negative geographies of city logistics
Critical approaches to logistics, in dialogue with geography and related disciplines, have exposed the turbulence behind apparently seamless transnational circulations of stuff. As everyday urban life becomes increasingly structured through logistical practices and expectations which imbricate consumption and distribution, now is an appropriate moment to take stock of these dialogues. Reviewing them, the article identifies three spatial assumptio…
Kin-aesthetics, ideology, and the cycling tour: The performance of territory in the Israeli Giro d'Italia
Addressing the strange case of the Israeli Giro d'Italia -wherein the opening stages of the Italian cycling tour's 2018 edition were hosted 2000 km away, by a country with little cycling heritage -the paper poses the question, not 'Why Israel?' but 'Why cycling?'. In response, it draws on theory at the intersection of mobilities, aesthetics, and ideology, together with an empirical analysis of the Israeli Giro's TV coverage, to claim that the cyc…
Assemblage theory, data systems and data ecosystems: The data assemblages of the Irish planning system
The work of the state has been transformed by digitalisation and datafication, with paper systems increasingly complemented and replaced by digital data systems. While much research has been undertaken on the effects of these data systems on e-government and e-governance, relatively little critical attention has been paid to the ontological nature of the data systems themselves, how they come into being, operate, iterate, and work in conjunction …
Genealogy of a data ecosystem: The digitalisation of planning development and control in Ireland, 2000–2024
In this paper, we document how a data ecosystem emerges and evolves as a socio-technical assemblage over a 25 year period charting its digitalisation as it transfers from a paper-based endeavour to one that is digitally mediated. Our case study is the development and control function (the management of the planning and construction pipeline from planning application, to appeals process, to building control) of the Irish planning system. We propos…
Breaking the continuum: Network aesthetics, infrastructural violence, and media responses to London Underground sexual harassment posters
Data mobilities: Rethinking the Movement and Circulation of Digital Data
International audience
Mobilities, design and passenger experiences
The encounter may not take place: Negative Geographies, Negative Mobilities
Mobilities scholarship has been shaped markedly by relational philosophies, exemplified by the event of encounter as a window through which to examine the vibrant potentiality of life. However, recent literature on the subject of 'negative geographies' has questioned the affirmationist tendencies underlying such perspectives, highlighting situations, processes and spaces characterised by insurmountable or recurrent vulnerability, exhaustion, disl…
The digital turn in planning and the production of ‘good enough’ planning systems
The digitalization of planning has taken place in a context where planning work is on-going and cannot be halted, and in which there are embedded institutional and technical systems and practices, as well as a number of technical, regulatory and socio-cultural data frictions. This context has led to a sub-optimizing approach to digitalization. In this paper, we examine the digital mediation of planning through an in-depth case study of a multi-sc…
Reframing data activism: Towards a broader understanding of datafied social movements
Social movements are adapting to datafication in diverse and complex ways. This paper refines existing conceptualisations of datafied social movements by analysing how two organisations within Ireland's housing and just-city movements navigate datafication. Through a longitudinal comparative study of the Dublin Democratic Planning Alliance, an expert-driven advocacy network, and the Community Action Tenants Union, a grassroots, mass-membership un…
Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Economic geography (4 works) · Mobilities (4 works) · Social science (4 works)