More-than-local, more-than-mobile

The smart city effect in South Africa

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8944239
AutoresOla Söderström (0000-0002-7111-8765, University of Neuchâtel, autor correspondente), Evan Blake (University of Neuchâtel), Nancy Odendaal (0000-0003-0706-1247, University of Cape Town)
Ano2021
Volume122
Páginas103-117
Data de publicação2021-04-30
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoGeoforum (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0016-7185 • E-ISSN: 1872-9398
EditoraElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.03.017
OpenAlexW3158637036
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas24
Referências citadas62

This paper explores how the smart city phenomenon becomes nearly ubiquitous in countries and cities around the world. Drawing on policy mobility studies and cosmopolitisation – defined as globalization from within – it focuses on the roll-out and take-up of smart city narratives and interventions in South Africa since 2005. Based on a media analysis on national and local scales, the paper shows that the smart city effect is an entangled phenomenon. Generally speaking, it consists of a lexical glue that holds together processes of data-driven neoliberalisation of urban governance. However, at municipal level we observe more variegated effects of reverse-scale policymaking, labelling and territorialisation where the smart city appears as a more-than-mobile but also as a more-than-local urban policy

Business · Corporate governance · Economic geography · Geography · Globalization · Internet of Things · Internet privacy · Narrative · Phenomenon · Political science · Psychological intervention · Regional science · Smart city · Sociology · Computer Science · E-Government and Public Services · Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development · Smart Cities and Technologies