Aitor Jimenez
Biographic Data
| ID | 9415552 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aitor Jimenez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aitor |
| FAMILY NAME | Jimenez |
| SIGNATURE | JIMÉNEZ A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Auckland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Liberal Governments, Authoritarian Policing
Do both authoritarian and liberal-democratic regimes rely on similar forms of police governmentality and state terror to sustain public order and security? Are police forces inherently authoritarian institutions that cannot be reformed? Our aim is to explore these questions by analysing the case of Spain, a constitutional democracy considered free by liberal standards, yet where, in the short period between 2011 and 2024, the two main policing bo…
The Barcelona imaginaries
Over the past decade and a half, Barcelona has been widely recognized as a ‘smart city’. Since 2015, it has also gained attention as a ‘rebel city’, with an alternative imaginary to that of the corporate smart city and, more broadly, others launched from Silicon Valley. This article analyzes a decade of opposing imaginaries around digital politics in the Catalan capital. It illustrates how Barcelona moved from a narrative of smartness to one of t…
Surveillance Punitivism
The Silicon Doctrine
This article explores and theorises what is here termed the Silicon Doctrine (SD), that is the legal ideology underpinning the libertarian version of the digital economy promoted (among others) by Facebook, Uber, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google. The first part of the text explores the Silicon Doctrine’s Frankensteinian ideological roots. The second part of the text scrutinises three dimensions of the Silicon Doctrine: 1) data extraction; 2) dom…
Surveillance Punitivism
The Barcelona imaginaries
Over the past decade and a half, Barcelona has been widely recognized as a ‘smart city’. Since 2015, it has also gained attention as a ‘rebel city’, with an alternative imaginary to that of the corporate smart city and, more broadly, others launched from Silicon Valley. This article analyzes a decade of opposing imaginaries around digital politics in the Catalan capital. It illustrates how Barcelona moved from a narrative of smartness to one of t…
The Silicon Doctrine
This article explores and theorises what is here termed the Silicon Doctrine (SD), that is the legal ideology underpinning the libertarian version of the digital economy promoted (among others) by Facebook, Uber, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google. The first part of the text explores the Silicon Doctrine’s Frankensteinian ideological roots. The second part of the text scrutinises three dimensions of the Silicon Doctrine: 1) data extraction; 2) dom…
Surveillance Punitivism
Liberal Governments, Authoritarian Policing
Do both authoritarian and liberal-democratic regimes rely on similar forms of police governmentality and state terror to sustain public order and security? Are police forces inherently authoritarian institutions that cannot be reformed? Our aim is to explore these questions by analysing the case of Spain, a constitutional democracy considered free by liberal standards, yet where, in the short period between 2011 and 2024, the two main policing bo…
The Barcelona imaginaries
Over the past decade and a half, Barcelona has been widely recognized as a ‘smart city’. Since 2015, it has also gained attention as a ‘rebel city’, with an alternative imaginary to that of the corporate smart city and, more broadly, others launched from Silicon Valley. This article analyzes a decade of opposing imaginaries around digital politics in the Catalan capital. It illustrates how Barcelona moved from a narrative of smartness to one of t…
Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (2 works) · Political economy (2 works) · Smart Cities and Technologies (2 works) · State (computer science (2 works)