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2025 (English)In: Digital Geography and Society, E-ISSN 2666-3783, Vol. 9, article id 100144Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Based on ethnographic observations, this article seeks to empirically illustrate how one of the main functions of the Smart City Expo in Barcelona in 2024 is to perform smartcity-as-ideology and its technological-solutionist stance that considerably narrows our understanding of urban problems and the solutions for it. The article introduces the Expo and describes our arrival and visit to the Expo. It provides empirical detail of the performativity of technological solutionism and its optimism, including the role of alliances, based on ethnographic observations. The main features of the technological-solutionist ideology underpinning the smart city are summarised and we conclude how this performativity is in line with Althusser's understanding of ideology.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Elsevier, 2025
Keywords
Ideology, Smart cities, Technological solutionism
National Category
Business Administration
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-80167 (URN)10.1016/j.diggeo.2025.100144 (DOI)2-s2.0-105018713519 (Scopus ID)
2025-10-272025-10-272025-10-27Bibliographically approved