How do we take postcolonial critique seriously from a location in the global North?

Last week I attended a meeting of Urban Agency III: Towards a Sustainable Integration of Disciplines in Urban Studies, a scientific research network that I am part of (alongside Guy Baeten, Carina Listerborn, Defne Kadioglu, Lorena Melgaço and Chiara Valli) through the Institute for Urban Research, IUR, at Malmö University. Urban Agency III seeks to…… Continue reading How do we take postcolonial critique seriously from a location in the global North?

Future research avenues for smart city research with a focus in the global South?

Research on smart urbanism with a global South focus has blossomed in the last few years in Anglophone academia, building and reacting to the critical interventions in the subdiscipline (e.g., Hollands, 2008; Kitchin, 2014; Söderström et al., 2014) but also proposing new avenues for research. There is work that has explored smart or data-driven urbanism…… Continue reading Future research avenues for smart city research with a focus in the global South?