Smart Feminist Cities: The case of Barcelona en Comú

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Abstract

Barcelona en Comu, the feminist political platform currently running the city of Barcelona, is cultivating a Smart Feminist City aiming to put technology at the service of the people rather than, for example, selling citizen data to corporations. This paper extends Elizabeth Grosz's theorisation of the Bodies-Cities interface to a Bodies-Cities-Technologies interface to think through the implications of the ways in which a feminist city such as Barcelona is reversing the neoliberal Smart City paradigm through its harnessing of technology to use for the common good and to challenge social discrimination. In doing so, this paper prompts us to think through the implications of these changes on the production of subjectivities through the Bodies-Cities-Technologies interface.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationWomen Philosophers on Economics, Technology, Environment, and Gender History
Subtitle of host publicationShaping the Future, Rethinking the Past
EditorsRuth Edith Hagengruber
Place of PublicationBerlin
PublisherDe Gruyter
Pages137-146
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9783111051802, 9783111052267
ISBN (Print)9783111050942
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2023

Keywords

  • Smart Feminist Cities
  • Barcelona en Comú
  • Bodies-Cities-Technologies interface

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