Reimagining smart cities: reconsidering pluralism and data subjectivities

Thesis

This work explores multiple, competing sociotechnical imaginaries of smart cities in Oxford. I worked with two main groups in the field, Smart Oxford and Cyclox, the former the official smart city initiative of The City of Oxford, and the latter, a grassroots political pressure group for cycling in and around the city. Each group presented very distinct visions of the future, each imagining and mobilising data and science and technology in extremely different ways. Over the course of my fi...

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Authors: Lefebvre, M

• Type of award: MLitt
• Level of award: Masters
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Subjects: Anthropology; Smart cities; Sociotechnical systems