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Emilia Lucio
Faculty of Psycology. National Autonomous University of Mexico
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Abstract
Los Desgarramientos Civilizatorios: Una Perspectiva
- Maria Eugenia SANCHEZ DIAZ, Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla, Mexico
El texto Los Desgarramientos Civilizatorios: Una perspectiva propone la categoría de desgarramiento civilizatorio entendida como la ruptura de andamiajes estructurales de larga duración y de imaginarios sociales naturalizados durante siglos. Se trata de una propuesta teórica y epistemológica que pretende aportar elementos de comprensión a la inédita crisis civilizatoria que está viviendo la Humanidad. A partir de una articulación compleja y no lineal de capitalismo, patriarcado y colonialidad, el texto sugiere la necesidad de deconstruir las categorías analíticas tradicionales que en vez de ayudar a comprender las realidades emergentes las encubren. Se agrupan en tres ámbitos los desgarramientos civilizatorios medulares: Territorios y corporeidades resquebrajadas, Símbolos e identidades dislocados y Regulaciones institucionales desestructuradas. Territorios y corporeidades resquebrajadas hace alusión al trastocamiento de la base material de la sociedad, de sus coordenadas espacio-temporales y de la corporeidad societal. Símbolos e identidades dislocados hace referencia a las rupturas de los entramados culturales y de las subjetividades de individuos y colectividades relacionados con procesos tecnológicos, imaginarios rotos, futuros inciertos. Regulaciones institucionales desestructuradas hace referencia a la desconfiguración de los aparatos regulatorios de la sociedad que se concretizan en instituciones y normatividades. Los tres ámbitos se refieren a la base material y corpórea, a los referentes simbólicos y a las lógicas político-regulatorias que conforman las redes estructurales y los significantes sociales de una colectividad. La categoría de desgarramientos civilizatorio puede ser útil para ahondar en esas tendencias subterráneas que sugiere Sassen (2015) para profundizar en la comprensión de las lógicas sociales contemporáneas.
El texto Los Desgarramientos Civilizatorios: Una perspectiva propone la categoría de desgarramiento civilizatorio entendida como la ruptura de andamiajes estructurales de larga duración y de imaginarios sociales naturalizados durante siglos. Se trata de una propuesta teórica y epistemológica que pretende aportar elementos de comprensión a la inédita crisis civilizatoria que está viviendo la Humanidad. A partir de una articulación compleja y no lineal de capitalismo, patriarcado y colonialidad, el texto sugiere la necesidad de deconstruir las categorías analíticas tradicionales que en vez de ayudar a comprender las realidades emergentes las encubren. Se agrupan en tres ámbitos los desgarramientos civilizatorios medulares: Territorios y corporeidades resquebrajadas, Símbolos e identidades dislocados y Regulaciones institucionales desestructuradas. Territorios y corporeidades resquebrajadas hace alusión al trastocamiento de la base material de la sociedad, de sus coordenadas espacio-temporales y de la corporeidad societal. Símbolos e identidades dislocados hace referencia a las rupturas de los entramados culturales y de las subjetividades de individuos y colectividades relacionados con procesos tecnológicos, imaginarios rotos, futuros inciertos. Regulaciones institucionales desestructuradas hace referencia a la desconfiguración de los aparatos regulatorios de la sociedad que se concretizan en instituciones y normatividades. Los tres ámbitos se refieren a la base material y corpórea, a los referentes simbólicos y a las lógicas político-regulatorias que conforman las redes estructurales y los significantes sociales de una colectividad. La categoría de desgarramientos civilizatorio puede ser útil para ahondar en esas tendencias subterráneas que sugiere Sassen (2015) para profundizar en la comprensión de las lógicas sociales contemporáneas.
El texto Los Desgarramientos Civilizatorios: Una perspectiva propone la categoría de desgarramiento civilizatorio entendida como la ruptura de andamiajes estructurales de larga duración y de imaginarios sociales naturalizados durante siglos. Se trata de una propuesta teórica y epistemológica que pretende aportar elementos de comprensión a la inédita crisis civilizatoria que está viviendo la Humanidad. A partir de una articulación compleja y no lineal de capitalismo, patriarcado y colonialidad, el texto sugiere la necesidad de deconstruir las categorías analíticas tradicionales que en vez de ayudar a comprender las realidades emergentes las encubren. Se agrupan en tres ámbitos los desgarramientos civilizatorios medulares: Territorios y corporeidades resquebrajadas, Símbolos e identidades dislocados y Regulaciones institucionales desestructuradas. Territorios y corporeidades resquebrajadas hace alusión al trastocamiento de la base material de la sociedad, de sus coordenadas espacio-temporales y de la corporeidad societal. Símbolos e identidades dislocados hace referencia a las rupturas de los entramados culturales y de las subjetividades de individuos y colectividades relacionados con procesos tecnológicos, imaginarios rotos, futuros inciertos. Regulaciones institucionales desestructuradas hace referencia a la desconfiguración de los aparatos regulatorios de la sociedad que se concretizan en instituciones y normatividades. Los tres ámbitos se refieren a la base material y corpórea, a los referentes simbólicos y a las lógicas político-regulatorias que conforman las redes estructurales y los significantes sociales de una colectividad. La categoría de desgarramientos civilizatorio puede ser útil para ahondar en esas tendencias subterráneas que sugiere Sassen (2015) para profundizar en la comprensión de las lógicas sociales contemporáneas.
Keywords
Andamiajes estructurales y simbólicos
Desgarramientos civilizatorios
Tendencias subterráneas
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Abstract
Creating Legitimacy to “Regenerate” Urban Inner Areas: How Art Under the Creative City Policy Changes the Local Context
- Kahoruko YAMAMOTO, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
When modern art is associated with a regional redevelopment policy, art, especially modern art, effectively serves to conceal previous local history and culture and recreate them under the guise of “community revitalization.” This means changing the public’s recognition of a certain community to be renewed without respect for the local context. With the case of Yokohama, Japan, this paper discusses critically how art can work to plant a seed for renewing a context that allows and conceals the displacement of vulnerable urban communities. Data are from qualitative social research by the author.
Recently, in Japan, administration policies have often supported the normative idea that arts can solve social problems. Yokohama City began its Creative City policy in 2004 and leveraged modern arts and art projects to regenerate inner-city areas.
Among the inner-city areas in Yokohama, Kogane and Kotobuki are the two main towns in which nonprofit art organizations work with the municipal Creative City policy. Kogane was a former brothel town cleaned up in 2005. Since 2006, an art-related organization has regularly organized large art events and the town is becoming a tourist destination. It recreates the town’s image from being characterized by an old, negative history to a “town regenerated by art.”
Kotobuki is a former day laborers’ town, where recently the majority were on social welfare. In 2008, an art-related organization granted by the Creative City policy started an art project. They received recognition for making artworks even in a town formerly described as a skid row but neither connected to nor respected by a history of community-based culture and those engaged in its long term.
The art projects under the Creative City policy unintentionally serve to change public recognition of inner-city areas to be regenerated, thus concealing the negative effects of redevelopment on vulnerable people.
When modern art is associated with a regional redevelopment policy, art, especially modern art, effectively serves to conceal previous local history and culture and recreate them under the guise of “community revitalization.” This means changing the public’s recognition of a certain community to be renewed without respect for the local context. With the case of Yokohama, Japan, this paper discusses critically how art can work to plant a seed for renewing a context that allows and conceals the displacement of vulnerable urban communities. Data are from qualitative social research by the author.
Recently, in Japan, administration policies have often supported the normative idea that arts can solve social problems. Yokohama City began its Creative City policy in 2004 and leveraged modern arts and art projects to regenerate inner-city areas.
Among the inner-city areas in Yokohama, Kogane and Kotobuki are the two main towns in which nonprofit art organizations work with the municipal Creative City policy. Kogane was a former brothel town cleaned up in 2005. Since 2006, an art-related organization has regularly organized large art events and the town is becoming a tourist destination. It recreates the town’s image from being characterized by an old, negative history to a “town regenerated by art.”
Kotobuki is a former day laborers’ town, where recently the majority were on social welfare. In 2008, an art-related organization granted by the Creative City policy started an art project. They received recognition for making artworks even in a town formerly described as a skid row but neither connected to nor respected by a history of community-based culture and those engaged in its long term.
The art projects under the Creative City policy unintentionally serve to change public recognition of inner-city areas to be regenerated, thus concealing the negative effects of redevelopment on vulnerable people.
When modern art is associated with a regional redevelopment policy, art, especially modern art, effectively serves to conceal previous local history and culture and recreate them under the guise of “community revitalization.” This means changing the public’s recognition of a certain community to be renewed without respect for the local context. With the case of Yokohama, Japan, this paper discusses critically how art can work to plant a seed for renewing a context that allows and conceals the displacement of vulnerable urban communities. Data are from qualitative social research by the author.
Recently, in Japan, administration policies have often supported the normative idea that arts can solve social problems. Yokohama City began its Creative City policy in 2004 and leveraged modern arts and art projects to regenerate inner-city areas.
Among the inner-city areas in Yokohama, Kogane and Kotobuki are the two main towns in which nonprofit art organizations work with the municipal Creative City policy. Kogane was a former brothel town cleaned up in 2005. Since 2006, an art-related organization has regularly organized large art events and the town is becoming a tourist destination. It recreates the town’s image from being characterized by an old, negative history to a “town regenerated by art.”
Kotobuki is a former day laborers’ town, where recently the majority were on social welfare. In 2008, an art-related organization granted by the Creative City policy started an art project. They received recognition for making artworks even in a town formerly described as a skid row but neither connected to nor respected by a history of community-based culture and those engaged in its long term.
The art projects under the Creative City policy unintentionally serve to change public recognition of inner-city areas to be regenerated, thus concealing the negative effects of redevelopment on vulnerable people.
Keywords
creative city policy
displacement
local context
urban inner areas
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Abstract
Reflecting on Some Methodolological Challenges in Investigating Data Governance and “Digital Entrapments”
- Dennis ZUEV, ISCTE-IUL, Portugal
One of the crucial contemporary challenges for social sciences is the emergence of Big Data practices and
infrastructures (Couldry 2020). Scholars have addressed the phenomenon of big data (Borgman 2016,
Boyd&Crawford 2012), underlining the spatial nature of data manufacturing and emerging data divides
(Andrejevic2014, Dalton et al. 2016). Recent studies have emphasized “data justice” (Sourbati&Behrendt 2020) as a
significant issue to be addressed in data-driven government and policy-making, suggesting that we need studies
that demystify the transnational process of data manufacturing as secretive, non-transparent and intimidating.
Data is the newest and most coveted raw material, and is extracted by transnational companies that are not
transparent to the host or local authorities. Thus, this key question is how can we make these companies more
accountable and improve fairness in data governance? In order to answer this question, study aims to investigate the
processes of data extraction and data governance accompanying urban smartification (creation of smart cities and
ports) using the example of Digital Silk Road (DSR) – digital infrastructure package within the Chinese Belt and
Road Initiative (BRI). The modest goal of the presentation is to reflect on some methodological challenges in conducting research
on emerging relations in data governance between transnational corporate entities and local authorities, customers and citizens.
Drawing on the critical data studies (Kushner 2013, Pasquale 2015, Seaver 2013), media
theory (Couldry&Mejias 2019, Kitchin 2018) and borrowing from studies of organizations in digital economy
(Bialski2020, Takhteev 2016) the presentation aims at presenting power asymmetries emerging in a new regime of data
extraction. The introduced concept of “digital entrapment” helps to examine mechanisms through which
local governance becomes technologically locked-in and dependent on the supply of tech solutions by
Chinese companies. Digital entrapments are legal and technological assemblages/practices contributing to
frictions between data capturing companies and host-countries.
One of the crucial contemporary challenges for social sciences is the emergence of Big Data practices and
infrastructures (Couldry 2020). Scholars have addressed the phenomenon of big data (Borgman 2016,
Boyd&Crawford 2012), underlining the spatial nature of data manufacturing and emerging data divides
(Andrejevic2014, Dalton et al. 2016). Recent studies have emphasized “data justice” (Sourbati&Behrendt 2020) as a
significant issue to be addressed in data-driven government and policy-making, suggesting that we need studies
that demystify the transnational process of data manufacturing as secretive, non-transparent and intimidating.
Data is the newest and most coveted raw material, and is extracted by transnational companies that are not
transparent to the host or local authorities. Thus, this key question is how can we make these companies more
accountable and improve fairness in data governance? In order to answer this question, study aims to investigate the
processes of data extraction and data governance accompanying urban smartification (creation of smart cities and
ports) using the example of Digital Silk Road (DSR) – digital infrastructure package within the Chinese Belt and
Road Initiative (BRI). The modest goal of the presentation is to reflect on some methodological challenges in conducting research
on emerging relations in data governance between transnational corporate entities and local authorities, customers and citizens.
Drawing on the critical data studies (Kushner 2013, Pasquale 2015, Seaver 2013), media
theory (Couldry&Mejias 2019, Kitchin 2018) and borrowing from studies of organizations in digital economy
(Bialski2020, Takhteev 2016) the presentation aims at presenting power asymmetries emerging in a new regime of data
extraction. The introduced concept of “digital entrapment” helps to examine mechanisms through which
local governance becomes technologically locked-in and dependent on the supply of tech solutions by
Chinese companies. Digital entrapments are legal and technological assemblages/practices contributing to
frictions between data capturing companies and host-countries.
One of the crucial contemporary challenges for social sciences is the emergence of Big Data practices and
infrastructures (Couldry 2020). Scholars have addressed the phenomenon of big data (Borgman 2016,
Boyd&Crawford 2012), underlining the spatial nature of data manufacturing and emerging data divides
(Andrejevic2014, Dalton et al. 2016). Recent studies have emphasized “data justice” (Sourbati&Behrendt 2020) as a
significant issue to be addressed in data-driven government and policy-making, suggesting that we need studies
that demystify the transnational process of data manufacturing as secretive, non-transparent and intimidating.
Data is the newest and most coveted raw material, and is extracted by transnational companies that are not
transparent to the host or local authorities. Thus, this key question is how can we make these companies more
accountable and improve fairness in data governance? In order to answer this question, study aims to investigate the
processes of data extraction and data governance accompanying urban smartification (creation of smart cities and
ports) using the example of Digital Silk Road (DSR) – digital infrastructure package within the Chinese Belt and
Road Initiative (BRI). The modest goal of the presentation is to reflect on some methodological challenges in conducting research
on emerging relations in data governance between transnational corporate entities and local authorities, customers and citizens.
Drawing on the critical data studies (Kushner 2013, Pasquale 2015, Seaver 2013), media
theory (Couldry&Mejias 2019, Kitchin 2018) and borrowing from studies of organizations in digital economy
(Bialski2020, Takhteev 2016) the presentation aims at presenting power asymmetries emerging in a new regime of data
extraction. The introduced concept of “digital entrapment” helps to examine mechanisms through which
local governance becomes technologically locked-in and dependent on the supply of tech solutions by
Chinese companies. Digital entrapments are legal and technological assemblages/practices contributing to
frictions between data capturing companies and host-countries.
Keywords
data governance
digital entrapment
digital silk road
methodology
