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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Technopolitics"”.
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Urban sustainability and the technopolitics of order
The core question that drives this dissertation is how do questions of social justice fit within agendas of sustainability? My approach is situated between two very different literatures on sustainability. The first, based in urban planning, seeks to move forward the agenda of urban sustainability. …
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Infrastructural Landscapes: The Technopolitics of Watershed Planning in Asia
This three-essay dissertation examines the technopolitics of watershed management in shaping infrastructure and landscapes in Asia. Technopolitics describes the co-production of power and technologies and how these processes manifest in the physical and social world. Using this conceptual …
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Reviving Dams: A Relational Technopolitics of Hydropower in the Himalaya
… are established and re-established. Studying the technopolitics of such interventions can alert us to the voices, actors, techniques, practices, and discourses that are prioritized or marginalized in particular historic moments. It can also offer a nuanced perspective on the emergence or …
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Unstable Actors, Alternating Currents: Reimagining Bureaucratic Knowledge Production in the Technopolitics of Development
… is framed within scholarly literature on the technopolitics of development, and the corresponding conceptual openings and closures that these different framings of bureaucratic rationality give rise to. Part II examines how permeable spaces of bureaucratic interaction continually reshape …
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Netwars: Information Technologies, Global Politics and the Reappropriation of Space
… and instead conceptualizing a new politics, a technopolitics---contestational, rearticulating and reappropriating, stealing time and finding a hiding place. To study the spaces of contestational politics in the ""network society"" I focus on three sites that are reconfiguring according to the …
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Technological Construction as Identity Formation: the High Speed Rail, Hybrid Culture and Engineering/Political Subjectivity in Taiwan
… technology studies to understand postcolonial technopolitics. The engineering practice of hybridity in Taiwan has become a locally transformed knowledge to reframe and negotiate with the more advanced technologies from the West and Japan, even though it was a contingent outcome of earlier …
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Hope-Hopping
… between post-coloniality, cosmopolitanism, and technopolitics. Exilic art practice takes myriad forms in this post-1989’s new “New World”. There are contemporary artists who are far from home, negotiating the distance between their displaced homeland and a foreign settlement. Some of whom manage …
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The water framework directive, paradigm shift or unrealized promises? A critical evaluation of its implementation from a boundary, economic and socio-political perspective
… in the broader context of the emergence of 'technopolitics'. The paper investigates if and in what way ICTs may be providing new avenues for participated water resources management and contributing to alter the dominating power balance. We critically analyze several examples where networking …