| Title |
The three modes of existence of the pandemic smart city |
| ID_Doc |
37372 |
| Authors |
Söderström, O |
| Title |
The three modes of existence of the pandemic smart city |
| Year |
2021 |
| Published |
Urban Geography, 42.0, 3 |
| DOI |
10.1080/02723638.2020.1807167 |
| Abstract |
Working on the provincialisation of the smart city in South Africa and India, the members of our research team recently witnessed, as the Covid-19 pandemic spread across the five countries in which we live and work, the emergence of a 'pandemic smart city'. Technologies, institutions, organisations and people we were observing and working with were repurposed, reshaped or reoriented in efforts to manage and mitigate the public health crisis. Drawing on work on ontological pluralism and on postcolonial urban studies, this introductory piece and the articles in this special issue argue that the management of the pandemic in cities of the Global South is closely intertwined with the three modes of existence of the smart city: the state-led, corporate-led and citizen-led smart city. |
| Author Keywords |
Smart cities; technologies; governmentality; pandemic; Covid-19; Global South; India; South Africa; Singapore; postcolonialism; ontology |
| Index Keywords |
Index Keywords |
| Document Type |
Other |
| Open Access |
Open Access |
| Source |
Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) |
| EID |
WOS:000578333700001 |
| WoS Category |
Geography; Urban Studies |
| Research Area |
Geography; Urban Studies |
| PDF |
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02723638.2020.1807167?needAccess=true
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