Grassroots practices of citizenship and politicization in the urban: the case of right to the city initiatives in Barcelona

Işlar, Mine; Irgil, Ezgi

doi:10.1080/13621025.2018.1477919

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“…Since then, the Barcelona City Council implemented a new policy framework entitled the Barcelona Data Commons program [6], which parallels an EU-funded experimental project titled Decode [129,130]. The latter project functioned as a testbed and flagship project to repoliticize the smart city and shift its creation and control toward grassroots, civic movements, and social innovation, and away from private interests and the state [131][132][133]. As an amalgamation of strategic initiatives, the policy framework established under the Barcelona City Council Digital Plan 2017-2020 is analyzed in the fourth section of this paper.…”

Section: Deciphering the Case Study Of Barcelona: (Smart) Citizenshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

(Smart) Citizens from Data Providers to Decision-Makers? The Case Study of Barcelona

2018

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Against the backdrop of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) taking effect in the European Union (EU), a debate emerged about the role of citizens and their relationship with data. European city authorities claim that (smart) citizens are as important to a successful smart city program as data and technology are, and that those citizens must be convinced of the benefits and security of such initiatives. This paper examines how the city of Barcelona is marking a transition from the conventional, hegemonic smart city approach to a new paradigm—the experimental city. Through (i) a literature review, (ii) carrying out twenty in-depth interviews with key stakeholders, and (iii) actively participating in three symposiums in Barcelona from September 2017 to March 2018, this paper elucidates how (smart) citizens are increasingly considered decision-makers rather than data providers. This paper considers (i) the implications of the technopolitics of data ownership and, as a result, (ii) the ongoing implementation of the Digital Plan 2017–2020, its three experimental strategies, and the related seven strategic initiatives. This paper concludes that, from the policy perspective, smartness may not be appealing in Barcelona, although the experimental approach has yet to be entirely established as a paradigm.

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(Smart) Citizens from Data Providers to Decision-Makers? The Case Study of Barcelona

2018

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“…Citizens starting to participate in claiming their right by expressing their voice in the production process of urban space. The Malioboro's parking attendants through FKPPY organize themselves as a collective movement in which creating their own 'cry and demand' over Malioboro space (Islar & Irgil, 2018;Lefebvre, 2000;Purcell, 2014). Indeed from the first moment, they are not opposed to the relocation project, as in their opinion that the adjustment of Malioboro is necessary.…”

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“…However, this paper takes citizenship in the form of practice of the right to the city which interpreted as taking control the production of urban space (Blokland et al, 2015;Purcell, 2003). This perspective stated from Lefebvre idea about a contract between citizen and state which start from the struggle over the right to be different, to self-management, and right to the city (Islar & Irgil, 2018;Lefebvre, 1990;Purcell, 2014). In another word, citizenship is the process of how people deliberate to control their urban space autonomously.…”

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Participation of Malioboro’s Parking Attendants Relocation in Right to the City Perspective

Pratiyudha

2020

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Right to the city become one of essential point in New Urban Agenda discussion, as the adoption of Sustainable Development Goals which includes point 11 on Sustainable Cities and Human Settlements. Right to the city is a concept which encloses political power, land ownership, and social justice within globalized cities which run into rapid change. Lefebvre describes the right to the city as people cry and demand a transformed and renewed urban life. Participation is seen as a basic right in the concept of the right to the city. This article drawing on a study case of relocation of Malioboro’s parking attendants. The relocation itself was one of the policies to revitalize tourism area along Malioboro street. In the process, there are some resistances from Malioboro’s parking attendants emerge as their concern on their sustainability after the relocation into the new place. Based on the field research, this article concludes that the process of participation that occurs does not meet up with parking attendants aspiration and the process is ruined by the government. Public participation is ineffective at the process and ruined as the government intervention in Malioboro parking attendants organization. The ineffectiveness of public participation is due to the logic of technocratic participation and the government's informal approach to some parking attendants.

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“…Others direct their attention towards value formation, assuming that individuals have different perceptions and judgments of (ecological) reality (Díaz et al 2015;Tengö et al 2014;Pascual et al 2017). Some scholars have focused on the actual practices of alternative socio-material movements at grassroots levels (Schlosberg and Coles 2016; Burke and Stephens 2018;Islar and Irgil 2018;Temper et al 2018). Finally, there are essential studies that offer in-depth examinations of environmental and ecological forms of citizenship (Reid and Taylor 2000;Dobson 2003;Valencia Sáiz 2005;Hayward 2006;MacGregor 2006;Crane et al 2008;Smith and Pangsapa 2008;Humphreys 2009;Mason 2009).…”

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Information Infrastructures and the Future of Ecological Citizenship in the Anthropocene

Dedeoğlu¹,

Dedeoglu

2020

Social Sciences

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In the last two decades, the concept of ecological citizenship has become a recurrent theme in both popular and academic discussions. Discussions around the prospects of, and limitations to, ecological citizenship have mostly focused on the idea of political agency and the civic responsibility of individuals in relation to their environments, with an emphasis on environmental justice and sustainability. However, the current scholarship has yet to adequately characterize its conceptual bases and empirical applications from an information perspective. Therefore, this paper provides an overview of citizenship studies and infrastructure studies for developing more nuanced understanding(s) of epistemological models for ecological citizenship in our networked world. Drawing on the literature on information infrastructure, this paper then proposes a conceptual framework to understand ecological citizenship as constituted both discursively and techno-materially through neoliberal, anthropocentric informational infrastructures.

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Grassroots practices of citizenship and politicization in the urban: the case of right to the city initiatives in Barcelona

Cited by 15 publications

References 33 publications

(Smart) Citizens from Data Providers to Decision-Makers? The Case Study of Barcelona

(Smart) Citizens from Data Providers to Decision-Makers? The Case Study of Barcelona

Participation of Malioboro’s Parking Attendants Relocation in Right to the City Perspective

Information Infrastructures and the Future of Ecological Citizenship in the Anthropocene

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