STS and the City
Politics and Practices of Hope
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5337079 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Olivier Coutard (0000-0002-3064-5526, Laboratoire Techniques Territoires Sociétés (LATTS)), Simon Guy (0000-0003-1507-5067, University of Manchester) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 713-734 |
| Publication date | 2007-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Science Technology & Human Values (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-2439 • E-ISSN: 1552-8251 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0162243907303600 |
| OpenAlex | W2144367389 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 78 |
| References cited | 18 |
Many recent studies on network technologies and cities share an alarmist view of the impact of technological or regulatory change in utility sectors on the social and spatial fabric of cities, pointing to growing discrimination and inequalities, alienation, enhanced social exclusion and urban "splintering" on a universal scale. A science and technology study (STS) perspective on these matters is helpful in moving beyond this "universal alarmism" by emphasizing the ambivalence inherent to all technologies, the significant potential of contestation of, and resistance, to technology-supported forms of discrimination, and the deeply contingent nature of the process of appropriation of new technologies and, as a consequence, of the social "effects" of technologies. Adopting this perspective would mean actively searching for and exploring these context-dependent and often conflictive appropriation processes. For it is in these spaces that we might begin to identify urban technological politics that break free from an intellectually and politically disabling technological pessimism
Alienation · Ambivalence · Appropriation · Economics · Emerging technologies · Epistemology · Geography · Inequality · Pessimism · Political science · Politics · Social inequality · Sociology · Technological change · Cybernetics and Technology in Society · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology · Social Psychology
Geographies of Empathy
Por que a informatização funciona? Estratégias de compensação dos atores no caso da prescrição médica
Why does informatics work? Compensation strategies of the actors in the implementation of a medical prescription writing software
Local Demonstrations for Global Transitions—Dynamics across Governance Levels Fostering Socio-Technical Regime Change Towards Sustainability
Ensamblajes urbanos
Interface as the site of infrastructural change
Energy infrastructures in divided cities
Where are low-carbon places made? Conceptualising and studying infrastructure junctions and the power geometries of low-carbon place-making
Sustainable Architecture in Context
Bodies and everyday practices in designed urban environments
The influence of electricity prepayment meter use on household energy behaviour
Data politics in the built environment
Hacking the pipes
Fuel poverty, policy, and equity in New Zealand
Bringing geopolitics to energy transition research
The global embedding of automobility
The urban politics of roll‐with‐it neoliberalization
Flooding the sanitary city
Imagining and enacting the future of the German energy transition
The cartographic ambiguities of HarassMap
Feminist digital geographies
Heating practices and self-disconnection among electricity prepayment meter consumers in New Zealand
Promises and Techno-Politics
Urban Techno-Politics
Regime of Congestion
Small technologies, big change
Urban dystopia and epistemologies of hope
The global assemblage of digital flow’
Incompleteness of urban infrastructures in transition
Mundane objects in the city
Mediating water governance
A Cable Laid Is a Cable Played
Aerial Video Surveillance in a Megacity
From the Guest Editors Splintering Urbanism at 20
All That Is Urban Melts into Data
Governing the Geneva Tram Network
Critical Junctures of Technological Mediation
Enclave urbanism and urban growth complications in sub-Saharan Africa
Assembling the water factory
(Un)bundling Bangalore
Placing splintering urbanism
Beyond passive consumption
Enclave urbanism in Mumbai
From post-politics to a politics of possibility? Unravelling the privatization of the Berlin Water Company
From hope to disappointment? Following the ‘Taking Place’ and ‘Organisation’ of hope in ‘Building Back Better’ from Covid-19
Foams of togetherness in the digital age
The Neoliberal Politics of “Smart”
Citizen engagement and urban change
The best flood I ever had”
Worlding infrastructure in the global South
Cities in an era of interfacing infrastructures
Turning waste into resources and resources into waste
Engineering modernity
Progressive Nostalgia in Novel Living Arrangements
Suburbia under an Energy Transition
Hybrid networks, everyday life and social control
Zero carbon homes and zero carbon living
Feminist geographies of new spatial media
Because You Got to Have Heat”
White line fever
Designing fluid futures
Interactive Metal Fatigue
Predicting Success in the Embryology Lab
Walk the Pipeline
How to Mend a Fragmented City
Worlding Water Supply
Experiments and Counter-Experiments in the Urban Laboratory of Water- Supply Partnerships in India
Experimental Infrastructure
Urban Laboratories
Locating the Urban In-between
Intermediaries and the Governance of Sociotechnical Networks in Transition
Conceptualizing the Political Ecology of Urban Infrastructures
Inhabiting Infrastructure
Building the city through culture
Everyday embodied othering experiences of young Muslims in the Netherlands
Varieties of alternativeness
O tecido tecno-político do Rio de Janeiro
The techno-political fabric of Rio de Janeiro
Splintering Urbanism
Reassembling the Social
In defence of utopian urbanism
Remaking Place and Securitising Space
Effects of Closed-Circuit Television on Crime
Polices entre État et marché
Writing Geographies of Hope
The gaze without eyes
Transcending Without Transcendence
Everything is Always Going to Hell
Constructing a City
Studying Obduracy in the City
Do Electrons Have Politics? Constructing User Identities in Swedish Electricity
Technology vs 'terrorism
| Unique citing works | 78 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,33 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2025 (18) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 75 |