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Francisco Klauser
Researcher at Durham University
Publications - 67
Citations - 1787
Francisco Klauser is an academic researcher from Durham University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Drone & Smart city. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 62 publications receiving 1484 citations. Previous affiliations of Francisco Klauser include University of Fribourg & University of Neuchâtel.
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Smart cities as corporate storytelling
TL;DR: The authors analyzes IBM's smart city campaign and finds it to be storytelling, aimed at making the company an "obligatory passage point" in the implementation of urban technologies, and argues that IBM's influential story about smart cities is far from novel but rather mobilizes and revisits two long-standing tropes: systems thinking and utopianism.
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Security governance and sport mega-events: toward an interdisciplinary research agenda.
TL;DR: In the post-9/11 context, security issues have become increasingly central to the hosting of sport mega-event (SMEs). Security budgets for events like the Olympic Games now run into billions of dollars.
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Michel Foucault and the Smart City: Power Dynamics Inherent in Contemporary Governing through Code
TL;DR: In this article, the internal logics and dynamics of software-mediated techniques used to regulate and manage urban systems are explored, drawing upon Michel Foucault's approach to power and governmentality.
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From self-tracking to smart urban infrastructures: towards an interdisciplinary research agenda on Big Data
TL;DR: The paper shows that both expressions of Big Data present a range of common surveillance dynamics on at least four levels: agency, temporality, spatiality and normativity, which highlights a series of important issues to explore in future research.
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Splintering Spheres of Security: Peter Sloterdijk and the Contemporary Fortress City:
TL;DR: This article brought together Peter Sloterdijk's "theory of spheres" with urban studies literature on the forms and effects of the contemporary urban security agenda, in order to investigate the relati...