Police, Protests, and Policy in Rio de Janeiro—Mega-Events, Networked Culture, and the Right to the City

Rekow, Lea

doi:10.1007/978-981-287-919-6_7

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“…170). This enters into conflict whenever citizens decide "to distrust, challenge and take over control", yet police monitoring or corporatization of data hampers opportunities for "autonomy participation and social innovation" (Rekow 2015). Questioning the so-called independent nature from ICT giants scholars suggest that resisting "new informational monopolies", like Google, consists of "embracing ownership and self-management technologies" (J.…”

Section: Privatizing Rights To the Digital/smart Citymentioning

confidence: 99%

Digital India’s Smart Transform-Nation: Enabling or Discouraging a ‘Chatur Citizenry’?

Andrade¹

2019

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Instead of exploring ‘smart cities’ as future utopias, this paper concentrates on historically constructed, yet actively contested socio-spatial inequalities. Drawing upon Chandigarh’s master-planning experience, it explores epistemic, material, and civic dimensions of Chandigarh’s Smart City Proposal to ask whether vernacular reinterpretations of ‘smart citizenry’ help the subaltern reclaim their ‘right to the city’. Thus, following a critical genealogy that shifts attention from ‘smart cities’ towards ‘citizen centeredness’, this research focuses on the construction and contestation of ‘smart citizenship’. Overall, technocratic and city-branding discourses, which legitimate restricting funds to a ‘smart enclave’ at the cost of evictions and banning ‘encroachers’, are confronted by housing rights activists. This motivates scholars to theorize a subversive identity, in which ‘smartness’ gains new meaning. However, epistemic contestations are not enough to create recognition for the needs and rights of the working poor, who work for but cannot reside in Chandigarh. Further alliances and political will are required.

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Section: Privatizing Rights To the Digital/smart Citymentioning

confidence: 99%

Digital India’s Smart Transform-Nation: Enabling or Discouraging a ‘Chatur Citizenry’?

Andrade¹

2019

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“…During the World Cup, police killed forty-four people throughout the city and were responsible for approximately 1,100 extrajudicial deaths per year in Rio. 40 In the month prior to the Olympics, there was a 130 per cent increase in police killings as compared with the year before. 41 the week before the Olympics, protesters laid out forty black body bags in front of the Olympic organising committee building to symbolise the number of people killed by Rio police during May 2016.…”

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An ‘Olympics without Apartheid’: Brazilian-Palestinian solidarity against Israeli securitisation

Desai¹,

Sykes²

2019

Race & Class

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It was at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games that, for the first time, activists mobilised against the Israeli securitisation of sport. Brazilian-Palestinian solidarity action, calling for Rio to be an ‘Olympics without Apartheid’, led the then Brazilian government to distance itself from a $2 billion agreement with an Israeli security company. The authors discuss the way in which the solidarity movement emerged and how Israeli companies use Gaza as a ‘lab’ to develop weapons, policing techniques and security technologies for sale on the world market. They point to the parallels between Israel’s securocratic war of pacification and Brazil’s immense security measures against the favelas during a decade of sport mega-events. They trace the flow of securitisation between Israel and Brazil in terms of racial apartheid and settler colonialism to show the impacts on people in occupied Palestine and the favelas of Rio.

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#BlockSidewalk to Barcelona: Technological sovereignty and the social license to operate smart cities

Mann

Mitchell

Foth

et al. 2020

Asso for Info Science & Tech

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This article explores technological sovereignty as a way to respond to anxieties of control in digital urban contexts, and argues that this may promise a more meaningful social license to operate smart cities. First, we present an overview of smart city developments with a critical focus on corporatization and platform urbanism. We critique Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs development in Toronto, which faces public backlash from the #BlockSidewalk campaign in response to concerns over not just privacy, but also lack of community consultation, the prospect of the city losing its civic ability to self‐govern, and its repossession of public land and infrastructure. Second, we explore what a more responsible smart city could look like, underpinned by technological sovereignty, which is a way to use technologies to promote individual and collective autonomy and empowerment via ownership, control, and self‐governance of data and technologies. To this end, we juxtapose the Sidewalk Labs development in Toronto with the Barcelona Digital City plan. We illustrate the merits (and limits) of technological sovereignty moving toward a fairer and more equitable digital society.

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Police, Protests, and Policy in Rio de Janeiro—Mega-Events, Networked Culture, and the Right to the City

Cited by 4 publications

References 7 publications

Digital India’s Smart Transform-Nation: Enabling or Discouraging a ‘Chatur Citizenry’?

Digital India’s Smart Transform-Nation: Enabling or Discouraging a ‘Chatur Citizenry’?

An ‘Olympics without Apartheid’: Brazilian-Palestinian solidarity against Israeli securitisation

#BlockSidewalk to Barcelona: Technological sovereignty and the social license to operate smart cities

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