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 language | English |
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Title of host publication | Women Philosophers on Economics, Technology, Environment, and Gender History |
Subtitle of host publication | Shaping the Future, Rethinking the Past |
Editors | Ruth Edith Hagengruber |
Place of Publication | Berlin |
Publisher | De Gruyter |
Pages | 137-146 |
Number of pages | 10 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9783111051802, 9783111052267 |
ISBN (Print) | 9783111050942 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2023 |
Keywords
- Smart Feminist Cities
- Barcelona en Comú
- Bodies-Cities-Technologies interface