Biometric Citizens in smart cities
Re-evaluating citizens’ conceptualizations in smart cities policies as extended metaphorical arguments
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6084250 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rania Fawzy (0000-0002-3638-0514, Arab Academy for Science, Technology, and Maritime Transport) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 283-305 |
| Publication date | 2024-03-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Language and Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1569-2159 • E-ISSN: 1569-9862 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/jlp.22097.faw |
| OpenAlex | W4389076800 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 41 |
This article addresses the socio-cognitive conceptualizations of the notion of ‘citizenship’ within the space of smart cities. It discusses how smart cities expos are endowed with ideological bearings that mark a shift in these conceptualizations. This ideological shift is explored in the policy releases of Barcelona expo media centre 2019/2020 as retrieved from the Smart City Expo World Congress website. The framework accounts for the socio-cognitive aspects that are brought to the smart expos’ discussions, reframing it within the paradigms of Posthumanism and neoliberal urbanism. It is found that citizenship within smart city discourse is characterized by series of subjugating conflations between biovalues and biometrics, the body, technology, and the city and the citizen. These subjugations are discovered by contesting the metaphors of CITIZEN-FOCUSED URBANISM, VULNERABLE CITIZENS, and TECHNOLOGICAL SOLUTIONISM with their reframed counterparts of BIOMETRIC CITIZEN, INFRASTRUCTURE CITIZENSHIP, and TECHNOLOGICAL PATERNALISM
Biometrics · Citizenship · Cognitive reframing · Computer security · Geography · Ideology · Internet of Things · Internet privacy · Media studies · Normative · Paternalism · Political science · Politics · Smart city · Sociology · Urbanism · Urbanity · Computer Science · Engineering · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction · Psychology · Smart Cities and Technologies · Technology Use by Older Adults · Architecture · Law · Social Psychology
The Uses of Argument
Foundations for Smarter Cities
Theories of Postdigital Heterogeneity
‘Enough is enough
“Undoing” a Rhetorical Metaphor
Smart urbanism and smart citizenship
Neo-Liberal Ideology
Posthumanist Performativity
Influence of Collaborative Reasoning discussions on metadiscourse in children’s essays
The Neoliberal City – Theory, Evidence, Debates
Neoliberal Rationality and Neohygienist Morality. A Foucaldian Analysis of Safe and Sustainable Urban Transport Policies in France
Neoliberalism and the urban condition
Argumentation, metadiscourse and social cognition
Smart cities
Smartmentality
Metamorpho-Logic
The surveillant assemblage
Biometric citizenship
A New Urban Dispositif? Governing Life in an Age of Climate Change
Posthuman policies for creative, smart, eco-cities? Case studies from China
Posthuman Agency in the Digitally Mediated City
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |