Communication Technology and Local Knowledges: The Case of “Peripheralized” High-Rise Housing Estates

McGrail, Brian A.

doi:10.2747/0272-3638.20.4.303

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“…Urban geographers have recently begun to take up this Downloaded by [University of Illinois Chicago] at 16:03 13 October 2014 challenge however, and started to examine how ICT usage is worked out in a variety of different home environments. McGrail (1999), whose focus is admittedly on housing rather than homes as such, perfectly illustrates the different roles the same technologies may play within different communities. His analysis focuses on the ways surveillance technologies have been introduced into Scottish high-rise estates: in some cases the technologies have promoted increased security and reduced fear of crime for tenants; on other occasions the same technology has been subverted, stolen or destroyed by those it is designed to police.…”

Section: Urban Geography Ict and The Homementioning

confidence: 97%

Children at Home in the Wired World: Reshaping and Rethinking Home in Urban Geography

Holloway

Valentine

2001

Urban Geography

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This paper is concerned with two developments which place questions about the home center-stage in urban geography, namely the growth of new information and communications technologies (ICT) and the rise of "critical geographies." The paper draws on an empirical investigation into British children's domestic use of ICT to move beyond Utopian and dystopian hyperbole about the future of the home in the wired world and consider how children's ICT usage is shaped within and reshapes the home environment. In so doing, the paper both broadens and deepens the conceptualization of home in urban geography. In terms of breadth, the analysis illustrates the importance of including children's as well as adults' voices and experiences in studies of domestic life. In terms of depth, it highlights the importance of studying the microgeographies of home as well as how social relations within the home shape its relation to the wider world. [

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Section: Urban Geography Ict and The Homementioning

confidence: 97%

Children at Home in the Wired World: Reshaping and Rethinking Home in Urban Geography

Holloway

Valentine

2001

Urban Geography

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“…What is needed, clearly, are detailed studies of the lived situated practices and experiences surrounding urban life for verticalized elites in a variety of contexts. Such work would provide fascinating contrasts to that which has so powerfully revealed the complex technoscientific and cultural politics of life in mass social housing blocks (see, for example, Jacobs et al, 2007;McGrail, 1999).…”

Section: Processes Of Vertical Capsularizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Graham

Hewitt

2012

Progress in Human Geography

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This article contends that critical urban research is characterized by horizontalism. It argues that the swathe of recent urban writings have neglected the vertical qualities of contemporary urbanization. The article’s introductory section elaborates this argument in detail. The paper then elucidates three areas where vertically oriented research is emerging. These encompass: the links between Google Earth and urbanism; the connections between social secession and ascension through buildings, walkways and personalized air travel; and the links between verticalized surveillance and urban burrowing.

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“…Although there have been many empirical sociological, sociolegal, and criminological studies of surveillance in particular localesötoo many to list hereö none of the main contemporary theorists of surveillance, whether Weberian, Marxian, neo-Machiavellian, or Foucauldian, are sufficiently spatial. Some studies of local instances of surveillance come from an urban geographic perspective (for example, Fyfe and Bannister, 1996;Herbert, 1996;McGrail, 1999;Williams and Johnstone, 2000) or from a historical geography tradition (for example, Kneale, 1999;Ogborn, 1992;. These accounts do not generally go far in reconciling theoretical developments in surveillance studies with those in geography.…”

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Surveilling Strange Materialities: Categorisation in the Evolving Geographies of FMD Biosecurity

Donaldson

Wood

2004

Environ Plan D

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The 2001 foot and mouth disease (FMD) epidemic in the United Kingdom resulted in the popularisation of the concept of biosecurity. At its most basic, biosecurity refers to simple cleansing and disinfecting, but during the FMD epidemic it became associated with a powerful system of surveillance. We characterise surveillance as a thing in itself, a mode of ordering that can be added to others. The establishment and maintenance of categories are fundamental to the practice of surveillance, but social studies of surveillance have not yet fully realised the way such categorisation operates within the nonhuman and the spatial. Strange materialities are those things which do not quite belong within a particular order. We examine the actions of surveillance in the world of strange materialities that was the FMD epidemic. Here we see that surveillant practices acted on the nonhuman FMD virus by constructing territories to control humans. Surveillance seems to proceed as the translation of a worldview (a system of categorisation) into materiality and we conclude with some thoughts on what this may mean for geographical studies of technical, biological, and human materialities in which surveillant processes are at work.

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Communication Technology and Local Knowledges: The Case of “Peripheralized” High-Rise Housing Estates

Cited by 8 publications

References 13 publications

Children at Home in the Wired World: Reshaping and Rethinking Home in Urban Geography

Children at Home in the Wired World: Reshaping and Rethinking Home in Urban Geography

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Surveilling Strange Materialities: Categorisation in the Evolving Geographies of FMD Biosecurity

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