Elite discourse coalitions and the governance of 'smart spaces': Politics, power and privilege in India's Smart Cities Mission

被引：30
作者：
Basu, Ipshita [1 ]
机构：
[1] Univ Westminster, Dept Polit & Int Relat, 32-38 Wells St, London W1T3UW, England
来源：
POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY | 2019年 / 68卷
关键词：
CITY;
D O I：
10.1016/j.polgeo.2018.11.002
中图分类号：
P9 [自然地理学]; K9 [地理];
学科分类号：
0705 ; 070501 ;
摘要：
This article reveals the elite discourse coalition which frames the priorities and institutional arrangements of the Smart Cities Mission in India. After locating the SCM within India's neoliberal urban policy trajectory and the new elite coalition it encompasses I describe three separate elite discourses: Modi's technocratic nationalism IT and consulting firms' technological utopia and middle class urban citizenship. Together the discourses have: shifted the moral sphere of urban policy from inclusive rights to exclusive privilege, privatised governance instead of local democracy and turned digital technocracy into a simplified solution for structural problems of urban inequality. While the elite discourses contest each other on certain areas which could lead to delays and stops in Smart City projects, together they have left the imprint of an elite led governance arrangement for urban planning and development in India.
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页数：9
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