How can anyone be more than one thing? Dialogues on more-than-humanity in the smart city

Powell, Alison and Taylor, Alex (2024) How can anyone be more than one thing? Dialogues on more-than-humanity in the smart city. In: Heitlinger, Sara, Foth, Marcus and Clarke, Rachel, (eds.) Designing More-than-Human Smart Cities: Beyond Sustainability, Towards Cohabitation. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 223 - 238. ISBN 9780192884169

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In this chapter, we ruminate the consequences of trying to reposition our ways of encountering our multispecies neighbours. We see such encounters as generative, forming the potential for new kinds of solidarity, both human and non-human. In particular, we argue that some of the ways to see, sense, or understand our neighbours produce significant tensions, which are important for three reasons: 1) They foreground the political qualities of ‘partial perspectives’; 2) They reveal asymmetries in the capacity to use technology to recognise others; and 3) They suggest parallels between the challenges of sensing non-human ‘others’ and the challenges of recognising difference within human relations. In an era of climate change, ecological instability, and fragmented human relationships, we reflect here on the kinds of connections that we might model through our encounters with animal ‘others’ in the smart city and consider how to shift relationships of knowledge and practice towards liberation.

Item Type:	Book Section
Official URL:	https://global.oup.com/academic/product/designing-...
Additional Information:	© 2024 Oxford University Press
Divisions:	Media and Communications
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races
Date Deposited:	10 Jun 2024 15:18
Last Modified:	11 Jun 2024 09:57
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/123829

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