The digital turn in postcolonial urbanism: Smart citizenship in the making of India's 100 smart cities
The digital turn in postcolonial urbanism: Smart citizenship in the making of India's 100 smart cities
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10.1111/tran.12225
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发表时间：
2018-09-01
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3.3
通讯作者：
Datta, Ayona
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作者：
Datta, Ayona
智慧城市作为关键城市地理学的数字化转向，在后殖民城市主义中基本上没有受到注意。本文试图通过研究在数字和城市公众的交叉点出现的新形式的后殖民公民身份来解决这一差距。特别是，我调查的智能公民在印度的100个智慧城市的挑战生产-一个国营的城市间的竞争，旨在通过信息通信技术驱动的城市化改造100个现有的城市。通过检查公开文件和在线公民咨询以及对四个拟议智慧城市的利益相关者研讨会的观察，我说明了智能公民的全球技术官僚想象如何与查图尔公民的白话翻译一起存在--一个政治参与的公民植根于多个公共和空间。这通过三个关键过程进行-枚举，性能和违规。人口统计是城市人口状况的统计，迄今为止，城市人口状况在很大程度上被隐藏在治理和治理的模拟技术之外。表达是智能公民在数字和物质领域的表现，具有讽刺意味的是，这些领域将历史上的社会不平等从城市扩展到数字领域。最后，突破是围绕全球智慧城市的不可逾越的技术官僚墙的破裂，这为印度后殖民公民身份的替代和可能的未来提供了一个窗口。通过这三个过程，我认为，在后殖民地的下层公民身份存在不是对立的，但在城市和数字公民身份。最后，我提供了一个未来的后殖民公民的潜力，谁打开了遵守和纵容，权威和不安全，可见性和不可分割的政治，社会，城市和数字公众纠缠的表现。
The smart city as a digital turn in critical urban geography has gone largely unnoticed in postcolonial urbanism. This paper seeks to address this gap by examining the emergence of new forms of postcolonial citizenship at the intersection of digital and urban publics. In particular, I investigate the production of a smart citizen in India's 100 smart cities challenge - a state-run inter-urban competition that seeks to transform 100 existing cities through ICT-driven urbanism. By examining the publicly available documents and online citizen consultations as well as observations of stakeholder workshops in four of the proposed smart cities, I illustrate how a global technocratic imaginary of smart citizenship exists alongside its vernacular translation of a chatur citizen - a politically engaged citizen rooted in multiple publics and spatialities. This takes place through three key processes - enumerations, performances and breaches. Enumerations are coercions by the state of an urban population that has so far been largely hidden from analogue technologies of governance and governmentality. Articulations are the performances of smart citizenship across digital and material domains that ironically extend historic social inequalities from the urban to the digital realm. Finally, breaches are the ruptures of the impenetrable technocratic walls around the global smart city, which provides a window into alternative and possible futures of postcolonial citizenship in India. Through these three processes, I argue that subaltern citizenship in the postcolony exists not in opposition, but across urban and digital citizenships. I conclude by offering the potential of a future postcolonial citizen who opens up entangled performances of compliance and connivance, authority and insecurity, visibility and indiscernibility across political, social, urban and digital publics.