"Smart" Discourses, the Limits of Representation, and New Regimes of Spatial Data.
As "smart" urbanism becomes more influential, spaces and places are increasingly represented through numeric and categorical data that have been gathered by sensors, devices, and people. Such systems purportedly provide access to always visible, measurable, and knowable spaces, facilitating ever mor...
| Published in: | Annals of the American Association of Geographers Vol. 110; no. 2; pp. 485 - 497 |
|---|---|
| Main Authors: | , , , |
| Format: | Article |
| Published: |
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Mar2020
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | View this record in EBSCOhost |
| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=141770588&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 141770588 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 24694452 JRMH jtl: Annals of the American Association of Geographers issn: 24694452 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Mar2020 vid: 110 iid: 2 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 141770588 10.1080/24694452.2019.1665493 ppf: 485 ppct: 12 formats: tig: atl: "Smart" Discourses, the Limits of Representation, and New Regimes of Spatial Data. aug: au: Dalton, Craig Wilmott, Clancy Fraser, Emma Thatcher, Jim affil: Department of Global Studies and Geography, Hofstra University RMIT University Department of Sociology, Lancaster University Department of Urban Studies, University of Washington Tacoma su: Olsson, Gunnar Cities & towns Urban planning Spatial data structures Remote sensing sug: subj: Cities & towns Urban planning Land Subdivision Administration of Urban Planning and Community and Rural Development Spatial data structures Remote sensing Olsson, Gunnar keyword: data Massey Olsson place smart cities space spatial data data Massey Olsson place smart cities space spatial data ab: As "smart" urbanism becomes more influential, spaces and places are increasingly represented through numeric and categorical data that have been gathered by sensors, devices, and people. Such systems purportedly provide access to always visible, measurable, and knowable spaces, facilitating ever more rational management and planning. Smart city spaces are thus governed through the algorithmic administration and categorization of difference and structured through particular discourses of smartness, both of which shape the production of space and place on a local and general level. Valorization of data and its analysis naturalizes constructions of space, place, and individual that elide the political and surveillant forms of technocractic governance on which they are built. This article argues that it is through processes of measurement, calculation, and classification that "smart" emerges along distinct axes of power and knowledge. Using examples drawn from the British Home Office's repurposing of charity outreach maps for homeless population deportation and the more recent EU EXIT document checking application for European citizens and family members living in the United Kingdom, we demonstrate the significance of Gunnar Olsson's thought for understanding the ideological and material power of smartness via his work on the very limits of representation. The discussion further opens a bridge toward a more relational consideration of the construction of space, place, and individual through the thinking of Doreen Massey. Key Words: data, Massey, Olsson, place, smart cities, space, spatial data pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
|---|