Authoritarian Smart Citycore
e-Authopia · Horizon Europe grant · 2024-10-01–2027-09-30
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Source: CORDIS (official EU open data), Horizon Europe. Framework HORIZON · call HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01 · scheme HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-GF · topic HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01-01. CORDIS record →
Objective
The smart city fulfils a utopian picture of a future where data-driven, citizen-centred, and just cities thrive. What if this vision of the smart city is combined with the prospect of smart control? What about the sociotechnical imaginaries of authoritarian smart cities? Research on smart cities in authoritarian regimes, for example, in both Saudi Arabia and China, has rarely been critical and has almost never discussed this urban form as authoritarian or surveillant. Even when calls for a comparative global agenda have been issued, authoritarianism has not been a significant component. E-Authopia explores the formation of authoritarian smart cities through the interplay between global smart city trends and domestic policymaking in authoritarian contexts. Through three instrumental case studies of authoritarian smart cities in Turkey, Thailand, and Gabon, I will investigate how the smart city idea is appropriated and localised, how it is positioned within a political system, and how it is translated into governance initiatives. I use semiotic and discursive analysis to study the authoritarian sociotechnical imaginaries of desirable urban futures at the symbolic and language level. Additionally, policy process tracing will be conducted through global pathways of influence and multiple streams framework to illustrate how these imaginaries and visions are localised, concretised, and translated to agenda-setting in policy adoption and development.
Beneficiaries (2)
| Organisation | Country | Role | EC contribution | SME |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UNIVERSITEIT TWENTE | NL | coordinator | €263,880 | |
| UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA | CA | associatedPartner | — |
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