Smart cities
Who cares
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4139712 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R Burns (0000-0001-5025-4947, University of Calgary, corresponding author), Max J Andrucki (0000-0003-0946-5739, Temple University), Max Andrucki (Temple University) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 12-30 |
| Publication date | 2021-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0308518x20941516 |
| OpenAlex | W3043214545 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 73 |
The growing critical research agenda on smart cities and open data programs has largely overlooked the body-subjects that enable its (re)production. The "ideal" subject of the smart city is prefigured as tech-savvy, independent, and uber-modern, able to produce digital data and analyze it to hold city government "accountable." In this subject production, however, we argue that smart cities continue to rely on forms of reproductive labor that are invisibilized in current research and public discourse: We focus here on unpaid domestic labor, low-paid caring and reproductive labor, and volunteer work. We introduce the term "digital care worker" to capture a new category of reproductive worker in the smart city-voluntary and low-paid data producers and analyzers such as those who undertake "hackathons," usually expected to do so out of love for their cities and communities. Drawing on geographies of care and Eve Sedgwick's notion of the "closet." we argue that the invisibility of digital caring laborers exists in dialectic relation to the spectacularization of particular body-subjects charged with caring for the smart city. Drawing on a discourse analysis of promotional materials and mission statements of key open data advocacy organizations, we propose the idea of "marginalized coder incubators," who deploy assimilationist rhetoric to spectacularize the voluntary labor of women, people of color, and LGBTQ communities that is ultimately performed for the benefit of elites in the neoliberalizing city
Internet of Things · Internet privacy · Invisibility · Political science · Public relations · Rhetoric · Smart city · Sociology · Gender Studies · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction · Smart Cities and Technologies · Technology Use by Older Adults
Gendering the smart city
Stories of control
From Home to Heaven
Cameras are no “easy solution” – practical privacy decision-making in smart cities
Smart city photo booths
Moving through, interacting with, and caring for the city. Children's and young people's everyday experiences in smart cities
Platforms mediating domestic care work as service gigs in European cities
From the smart city to urban justice in a digital age
Factors in the adoption of open government initiatives in Spanish local governments
Building quantitative literacy in critical human geography curriculum
Localizing India’s global smart cities
Smart magic? Global discourse and local planning in three Nordic cities
Smart port city
Forum Play as a tool for exploring more-than-human relations in the smart city
Interstitiality in the smart city
Smart cities
Digitalizing sewage
Make our communities better through data
Discourse Analysis as Theory and Method
Algorithms of Oppression
The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community
The Subject and Power
Theorizing Digital and Urban Inequalities
Families Apart
Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith
Inconsequence
Digital Labor
Gender and Social Reproduction
Smart Cities in Europe
Smarter than Smart
The spectrum of control
Matters of care
Critical interventions into the corporate smart city
The digital skin of cities
Civic hacking as data activism and advocacy
Some problems and possibilities of caring
Home, Work and the Shifting Geographies of Care
Actually existing smart citizens
On the relational dynamics of caring
Spaces of Governance
Civic open data at a crossroads
Being a ‘citizen’ in the smart city
Geographic Information Science I
Feminist geographies of digital work
Mine your data
Anticipatory logics of the smart city’s global imaginary
Urban Pulse—A Geography of Serial Seduction
Introduction
How Women Saved the City
Instead of Radical Geography, How About Caring Geography
The Abstraction of Care
Contesting Digital Futures
Smart subjects for a Smart Nation? Governing (smart)mentalities in Singapore
Performing the sharing economy
Place Geography and the Ethics of Care
Feminist digital geographies
Knowing and governing cities through urban indicators, city benchmarking and real-time dashboards
Programming Environments
Database Ethnographies Using Social Science Methodologies to Enhance Data Analysis and Interpretation
Work, workfare, work/life balance and an ethic of care
Gender relations and the spatial structure of the city
Smartmentality
African urban fantasies
Will the real smart city please stand up
New urban utopias of postcolonial India
Hackathons, entrepreneurship and the passionate making of smart cities
Smart cities as corporate storytelling
Hackathons and the Making of Entrepreneurial Citizenship
Sex, Race, and Class-The Perspective of Winning
Postcolonial urban futures
Wish you were here
Towards an Understanding of the Gender Division of Urban Space
Where Has Welfare Gone? Introductory Remarks on the Geographies of Care and Welfare
Underperformative economies
Labor and Housing Markets as Public Spaces
Augmented Realities and Uneven Geographies
Care work, migration and citizenship
From Absolute Invisibility to Extreme Visibility
Body-Subject/Body-Power
Posthuman Agency in the Digitally Mediated City
Whose City Is It? Globalization and the Formation of New Claims
Where's the database in digital ethnography? Exploring database ethnography for open data research
Activist Mothering
Data Derivatives
Mutations in Citizenship
The Extended Case Method
| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |