Postcolonial urban futures: Imagining and governing India's smart urban age
Postcolonial urban futures: Imagining and governing India's smart urban age
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10.1177/0263775818800721
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发表时间：
2019-06-01
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3.8
通讯作者：
Datta, Ayona
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作者：
Datta, Ayona
本文将“未来”视为后殖民城市主义社会权力关系的蓝图。它解决了关于后殖民城市主义的丰富学术研究中的一个关键空白，该空白在很大程度上忽视了政治和城市转型速度中的“时间中心性”（Chakrabarty，2000）。本文将后殖民城市主义视为“时间的殖民化”（Adam，2004），它跨越过去、现在和未来的空间、尺度和时间，将城市产生为时空实体。本文使用“未来”（Urri，2016）的视角作为通过速度想象和管理城市的实践，通过一系列在过去与未来之间建立辩证关系的流行神话来分析印度国家 100 个智慧城市的使命。它表明印度智慧城市的特点是部署了两个平行的速度神话——国家地位和技术。前者指的是神话般的道德国家，后者指的是透明和负责任的治理，以按照道德国家的形象打造智慧城市。该论文的结论是，虽然后殖民的未来时间是在智慧城市的规模上想象的，但同时也在国家的规模上对其治理进行了重新调整。
This paper examines the 'future' as a blueprint for social power relations in postcolonial urbanism. It addresses a crucial gap in the rich scholarship on postcolonial urbanism that has largely ignored the 'centrality of time' (Chakrabarty, 2000) in the politics and speed of urban transformations. This paper takes postcolonial urbanism as a 'colonisation of/with time' (Adam, 2004) that reaches across spaces, scales and times of the past, present and future to produce cities as spatio-temporal entities. Using the lens of 'futuring' (Urry, 2016) as a practice of imagining and governing cities through speed, this paper analyses India's national 100 Smart Cities Mission through a set of popular myths that create a dialectic relation between past and future. It suggests that smart cities in India are marked by the deployment of two parallel mythologies of speed - nationhood and technology. While the former refers to a mythical moral state, the latter refers to transparent and accountable governance in order to produce smart cities in the image of the moral state. The paper concludes that while postcolonial future time is imagined at the scale of the smart city, there is a simultaneous recalibration of its governance at the scale of the nation.