Governing cities as more-than-human entities: From the population of databases to the legibility of urban populations

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dc.contributor.authorMouton, Morgan
dc.contributor.authorRock, Melanie
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-19T21:41:09Z
dc.date.available2022-08-19T21:41:09Z
dc.date.issued2022-01-30
dc.descriptionVideo abstracten_US
dc.description.abstractThe field of urban studies has scrutinised digital technologies and their proliferation, but rather little attention has been paid to databases. Furthermore, contributions to date have focused almost exclusively on how digital technologies interface with human populations in cities. By contrast, we draw attention to databases maintained by city governments that contain identifying information about pet dogs and their legal owners in cities. Methodologically, our study merges database ethnography with multi-species ethnography. Conceptually, we contend that “dog data” contribute to orderly conduct in urban space. This orientation to urban governance illustrates “trans-biopolitics,” in the sense of socially-situated and technologically-mediated power relations that operate through multi-species entanglements. As such, this article extends the literature on (neoliberal) urban policing by providing a fine-grained analysis of how emergent forms of social control become palpable. In general terms, the adoption and use of digital technologies by city governments has increased their capacity to enforce rules and regulations. Overall, we find that the more legible dogs and their legal owners become in databases, the more governable both dogs and people become in urban life.en_US
dc.description.grantingagencyCanadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)en_US
dc.description.grantingagencySocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)en_US
dc.identifier.grantnumberIDG-430-2016-00078; MOP-130569; MOP-123380; GIR-112745en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/115114
dc.identifier.urihttps://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/40155
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisher.departmentCommunity Health Sciencesen_US
dc.publisher.facultyCumming School of Medicineen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversité Gustave Eiffel - Université Paris-Est Créteilen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen_US
dc.rightsThis is the video abstract for an article published by Taylor & Francis in City on 13 October 2021, available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13604813.2021.1981026. This video was published by the authors on YouTube on 30 January 2022, available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XBEWvDxUG8. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.en_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0en_US
dc.subjectCanadaen_US
dc.subjectDigital ethnographyen_US
dc.subjectNeoliberal governanceen_US
dc.subjectMore-than-human geographyen_US
dc.subjectSmart citiesen_US
dc.subjectUrban ecologyen_US
dc.titleGoverning cities as more-than-human entities: From the population of databases to the legibility of urban populationsen_US
dc.title.alternativeGoverning cities as more-than-human entitiesen_US
dc.typevideoen_US
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ucalgary.scholar.levelFacultyen_US
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