This book engages the reader in exploring the relationships between
digital social innovation initiatives and the city. It delivers a
fresh, accessible and case-based discussion on the emergence of
digitally-enabled social innovation practices in Europe that are
redesigning the urban space and challenging the consolidated urban
governance processes. By adopting a critical geography perspective,
this ground-breaking analysis of digital social innovation provides
the reader with an accessible overview of the way in which urban
reproductive processes mobilise the physical and the virtual
dimensions of the city and generate distinctive spatial
configurations. Together with novel urban narratives and
socio-technical imaginaries, these support the existing geometries of
power or construct new ones. The author clearly describes contemporary
cities as the new battlegrounds for controlling the digital sphere,
shaped by the interplay between digital capitalism and resistance
movements. In light of grassroots initiatives advanced by
cyber-activists, e-makers and hackers, the book unveils the
socio-political and cultural underpinnings of the revolution produced
by the digital social innovations in the city and the
socio-technological regimes supporting them. This author successfully
sheds new critical light on traditional innovation studies exploring
the debate on digital innovation through the lens of social and
cultural geography providing an invaluable reference for those working
in this field.
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Spatial Imaginaries and Technological Resistances in Urban Governance
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9783030804510
Publisert
2021
Utgiver
Vendor
Palgrave Macmillan
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
Forfatter