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| Title | The Pitfalls Of Smart Urban Infrastructure During A Period Of Unrest: Networked Dissent Against Smart Lampposts In Hong Kong |
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| ID_Doc | 56219 |
| Authors | Ting T.-Y. |
| Year | 2024 |
| Published | Journal of Infrastructure, Policy and Development, 8, 9 |
| DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.24294/jipd.v8i9.8313 |
| Abstract | While the notion of the smart city has grown in popularity, the backlash against smart urban infrastructure in the context of changing state-public relations has seldom been examined. This article draws on the case of Hong Kong’s smart lampposts to analyse the emergence of networked dissent against smart urban infrastructure during a period of unrest. Deriving insights from critical data studies, dissentworks theory, and relevant work on networked activism, the article illustrates how a smart urban infrastructure was turned into both a source and a target of popular dissent through digital mediation and politicisation. Drawing on an interpretive analysis of qualitative data collected from multiple digital platforms, the analysis explicates the citizen curation of socio-technic counter-imaginaries that constituted a consent of dissent in the digital realm, and the creation and diffusion of networked action repertoires in response to a changing political opportunity structure. In addition to explicating the words and deeds employed in this networked dissent, this article also discusses the technopolitical repercussions of this dissent for the city’s later attempts at data-based urban governance, which have unfolded at the intersections of urban techno-politics and local contentious politics. Moving beyond the common focus on neoliberal governmentality and its limits, this article reveals the underexplored pitfalls of smart urban infrastructure vis-à-vis the shifting socio-political landscape of Hong Kong, particularly in the digital age. © 2024 by author(s). |
| Author Keywords | data-driven governance; networked dissent; smart city backlash; techno-politics; urban development; urban infrastructure |
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