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Urban InequalitiesCrisis, Disorder and Management: Smart Cities and Contemporary Urban Inequality

Urban Inequalities: Crisis, Disorder and Management: Smart Cities and Contemporary Urban Inequality [This chapter draws on theories of sovereignty to explore how Smart Urbanism excludes in the name of inclusion. We focus on the powerful mix of symbols, fears, desires and ambivalences that come together in Smart Urbanism to present it as a viable, desirable and inevitable answer to the crisis of the urban. Crisis figures prominently in this process. Indeed, conceptions of futurity and the power of sovereign decision revolve around the delineation of crises and forms of disorder, and the possible modes of managing, mitigating, resolving or surviving them. The paper offers concrete examples of how urban planners and policy makers draw upon ideas about the management of crisis and disorder to continually transform natural, social and built environments. It does so to show how those who claim to transform, order, build and preserve humanity’s urban future end up sustaining the inherited hierarchies that generate its present crises.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Urban InequalitiesCrisis, Disorder and Management: Smart Cities and Contemporary Urban Inequality

Part of the Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology Book Series
Editors: Pardo, Italo; Prato, Giuliana B.
Nugent, David; Suhail, Adeem
Urban Inequalities — Jan 6, 2021
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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
ISBN
978-3-030-51723-6
Pages
145 –169
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-51724-3_8
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Abstract

[This chapter draws on theories of sovereignty to explore how Smart Urbanism excludes in the name of inclusion. We focus on the powerful mix of symbols, fears, desires and ambivalences that come together in Smart Urbanism to present it as a viable, desirable and inevitable answer to the crisis of the urban. Crisis figures prominently in this process. Indeed, conceptions of futurity and the power of sovereign decision revolve around the delineation of crises and forms of disorder, and the possible modes of managing, mitigating, resolving or surviving them. The paper offers concrete examples of how urban planners and policy makers draw upon ideas about the management of crisis and disorder to continually transform natural, social and built environments. It does so to show how those who claim to transform, order, build and preserve humanity’s urban future end up sustaining the inherited hierarchies that generate its present crises.]

Published: Jan 6, 2021

Keywords: Smart cities; Urbanism; Sovereignty; Temporality; Sacrifice; Redemption

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