| Title |
More-than-local, more-than-mobile: The smart city effect in South Africa |
| ID_Doc |
37733 |
| Authors |
Söderström, O; Blake, E; Odendaal, N |
| Title |
More-than-local, more-than-mobile: The smart city effect in South Africa |
| Year |
2021 |
| Published |
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| DOI |
10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.03.017 |
| Abstract |
This paper explores how the smart city phenomenon becomes nearly ubiquitous in countries and cities around the world. Drawing on policy mobility studies and cosmopolitisation - defined as globalization from within - it focuses on the roll-out and take-up of smart city narratives and interventions in South Africa since 2005. Based on a media analysis on national and local scales, the paper shows that the smart city effect is an entangled phenomenon. Generally speaking, it consists of a lexical glue that holds together processes of data-driven neoliberalisation of urban governance. However, at municipal level we observe more variegated effects of reverse-scale policymaking, labelling and territorialisation where the smart city appears as a more-than-mobile but also as a more-than-local urban policy. |
| Author Keywords |
Smart cities; Policy mobility; Cosmopolitisation; Globalisation; South Africa |
| Index Keywords |
Index Keywords |
| Document Type |
Other |
| Open Access |
Open Access |
| Source |
Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) |
| EID |
WOS:000649833400011 |
| WoS Category |
Geography |
| Research Area |
Geography |
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