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      In search of the Smart Citizen: Republican and cybernetic citizenship in the smart city

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      Urban Studies
      SAGE Publications

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          The smart city has been both celebrated for opening up decision-making processes through responsive digital infrastructures, and criticised for turning citizens into mere nodes of socio-technical networks under corporate or government control. In line with these depictions, smart city politics is often analysed as a struggle between aspirations for bottom-up participatory democracy and authoritarian control. Drawing on ethnographic research on an Amsterdam project which encourages citizens to collect and share air quality data, we problematise this vertical reading of smart city politics. The project mobilises both republican citizenship and cybernetic citizenship, each assuming different logics regarding the ways in which citizens negotiate urban life by means of data and sensing technologies. While republican citizenship emphasises citizens’ sovereignty, cybernetic citizenship emphasises their immersion into informational environments. We demonstrate how, depending on specific situated interests and forms of engagement, both kinds of citizenship feed into appealing visions of urban life for different actors.

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                Journal
                Urban Studies
                Urban Studies
                SAGE Publications
                0042-0980
                1360-063X
                June 2020
                June 25 2019
                June 2020
                : 57
                : 8
                : 1733-1748
                Affiliations
                [1 ]University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
                Article
                10.1177/0042098019847410
                fc188341-067d-4e29-9c43-ad570ab61d07
                © 2020

                https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

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