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SUMMARY:Making Space for the Future: Imagining the Smart Nation in Singapo
 re - Amelia Hassoun\, Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy
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CONTACT:Dr Stefanie Ullmann
DESCRIPTION:Through an ethnography of two “Smart Nation” smart home pr
 ojects in Singapore\, I detail how state planners project and replicate fu
 ture imaginaries through the smart city by repeatedly materialising them i
 n smart urban infrastructure. These historically-rooted planning practices
  project some residents as representing and productive of national futures
  while excluding others. Residents repeatedly and materially engage with t
 hese imaginaries\, sometimes replicating and sometimes reimagining them\, 
 through everyday embodied engagement with smart urban infrastructures. \n\
 nI show how these residents disrupt and create un-accounted for data flows
  in their daily lives\, focusing on racial minorities\, queer residents\, 
 and noncitizens for whom data flows mean continued exclusion from national
  futures. I argue that overemphasis on visible protest in public space neg
 lects the impacts of these quotidian acts of political resistance\, partic
 ularly in highly surveilled contexts. Analysing instead how differentiated
  residents navigate their “technological everyday” (Amin 2007) by spat
 ialising “geographic counter-stories” (Kobayashi 2005)\, I argue\, sho
 ws how state power is expressed and experienced through smart urban infras
 tructure. It also illuminates residents’ agency in co-producing smart ci
 ty futures\, constructing their senses of self and nation\, and practicing
  (smart) citizenship.
LOCATION:Richard King room\, Darwin College
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