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Policy mobility and social justice in smart cities: analysing urban paradigms in semiperipheral Lisbon
| Resumo: | Problematizing the overaccumulation of capital intensified after the last cycles of crises by the alliance between financialisation and datafication, this research critically examines the popularized term smart city. Following the entrepreneurial turn in urban governance, data-driven urbanism was revealed as a neoliberal strategy of business expansion via corporate storytelling. Ubiquitous in corporate discourses, the dominant smart city paradigm is criticized for being technocratic, expanding already existing social problems and creating data-driven harms. Adopting an exploratory and explanatory methodological approach, the thesis inquires a paradigmatic case study of Lisbon, a late adherent of smart city development and a global semiperiphery, or a “South of the West". As a collection of three articles, the investigation begins by theorizing the right to the smart city and arguing that an authentic paradigm shift constitutes interpreting technology as a sociotechnical arrangement to unravel historical problems which marginalised citizens confront and employing public participation and democratic processes, therefore empowering and emancipating citizens. In Lisbon, semi-structured in-depth interviews and thematic document analysis reveal that the smart city agenda, top-down injected by corporate storytelling, mixes with formerly established and locally rooted public participation agenda, therefore shaping a hybrid agenda in which social justice gains strength. Closing with a reflexive essay that interprets the repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity to rethink smart cities and urban imaginaries, the research highlights how urban transitions and paradigm shifts can contribute towards socially just futures. By adopting a southern epistemological approach, the thesis enables a better comprehension of smart city paradigms in global semiperiphery, therefore contributing to enlarging and enriching southern urban critique. |
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| Autores principais: | Donadio, Tomás |
| Assunto: | Cidades inteligentes Cidadania neoliberal Politicas públicas Participação publica Planeamento urbano |
| Ano: | 2024 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | tese de doutoramento |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade de Lisboa |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa |
| Resumo: | Problematizing the overaccumulation of capital intensified after the last cycles of crises by the alliance between financialisation and datafication, this research critically examines the popularized term smart city. Following the entrepreneurial turn in urban governance, data-driven urbanism was revealed as a neoliberal strategy of business expansion via corporate storytelling. Ubiquitous in corporate discourses, the dominant smart city paradigm is criticized for being technocratic, expanding already existing social problems and creating data-driven harms. Adopting an exploratory and explanatory methodological approach, the thesis inquires a paradigmatic case study of Lisbon, a late adherent of smart city development and a global semiperiphery, or a “South of the West". As a collection of three articles, the investigation begins by theorizing the right to the smart city and arguing that an authentic paradigm shift constitutes interpreting technology as a sociotechnical arrangement to unravel historical problems which marginalised citizens confront and employing public participation and democratic processes, therefore empowering and emancipating citizens. In Lisbon, semi-structured in-depth interviews and thematic document analysis reveal that the smart city agenda, top-down injected by corporate storytelling, mixes with formerly established and locally rooted public participation agenda, therefore shaping a hybrid agenda in which social justice gains strength. Closing with a reflexive essay that interprets the repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity to rethink smart cities and urban imaginaries, the research highlights how urban transitions and paradigm shifts can contribute towards socially just futures. By adopting a southern epistemological approach, the thesis enables a better comprehension of smart city paradigms in global semiperiphery, therefore contributing to enlarging and enriching southern urban critique. |
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