In this episode, I talk to Vivien Butot, Associate Lector in Social Media, Security and Justice at Inholland University of Applied Sciences in Rotterdam (the Netherlands). about smart cities and smart urban safety. Drawing on Vivien’s work on these issues, we try and understand what smart cities are about, how they are connected to safety and surveillance, and how people experience them.
Vivien’s recommended resources:
· Kitchin, R. (2022). Conceptualising smart cities. Urban Research & Practice, 15(1), 155-159. https://doi.org/10.1080/17535069.2022.2031143
· Kitchin, R. (2016). The ethics of smart cities and urban science. Philosophical transactions of the royal society A: Mathematical, physical and engineering sciences, 374(2083), 20160115. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2016.0115
· Shelton, T., Zook, M., & Wiig, A. (2015). The ‘actually existing smart city’, Cambridge
Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 8(1), 13–25. https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsu026
· Söderström, O., Paasche, T., & Klauser, F. (2020). Smart cities as corporate storytelling. In The Routledge companion to smart cities (pp. 283-300). Routledge.
· Van Es, K., & de Lange, M. (2020). Data with its boots on the ground: Datawalking as research method. European Journal of Communication, 35(3), 278-289. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0267323120922087
Vivien’s highlighted work:
· Butot, V., Jacobs, G., Bayerl, P. S., Amador, J., & Nabipour, P. (2023). Making smart things strange again: using walking as a method for studying subjective experiences of smart city surveillance. Surveillance & Society, 21(1), 61-82. https://doi.org/10.24908/ss.v21i1.15665
· Butot, V., & van Zoonen, L. (2022). Contesting infrastructural futures: 5G opposition as a technological drama. Science, Technology, & Human Values. https://doi.org/10.1177/016224392211473
Thank you to Elmeri Tommiska for the music and to Jyri Väisänen for the post-production assistance.
