**Apologies for crossposting**
Please find bellow the final call for papers for the session “Digital
Commonscapes, in, against and beyond smart cities"
<http://conference.rgs.org/CallForPapers/View.aspx?heading=Y&session=e11d7e21-dcf2-44f4-89ae-11c8a4955dea>
at the 2018 RGS-IBG Annual Conference.
*Open panel/Call for papers: **RGS-IBG 2018*
*Digital Commonscapes, in, against and beyond smart cities. *
*Session organisers*:
Ms. Natalia-Rozalia Avlona
PhD Researcher Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
Mr. Charalampos Tsavdaroglou
Post-Doc. Urban Planner, University of Thessaly, Greece
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
During the last years digital commons have formed new geographical
landscapes of virtual communities, hybrid spaces, and perpetual
reproduction of intangible goods. In fact digital commons balance between
the neoliberal smart cities and emancipatory communal practices. On the one
hand city managers and policy makers tend to appropriate and distort urban
commons in order to attract investments, creative class and tourists. Smart
urbanism becomes a leitmotiv to enforce entrepreneurial governance
strategies, gentrification, airbnbfication-uberfication, displacement of
undesired groups, city branding and creative city policies. On the other
hand, digital commons empower self-organised collectives, in sharing and
solidarity economy, migrants and moving populations, as well as urban
protests and revolts. Digital commoning practices and communities struggle
for a transition into a postcapitalist world, confronting with digital
capitalism but also with questions on the base of gender, race, age and
(dis)ability.
In this direction, the panel welcomes proposals from various disciplines
that:
a) follow dialectic, decolonial and intersectional critical approaches on
neoliberal smart urbanism;
b) focus on comparative studies on digital/urban commons, sharing economy
and smart cities;
c) question how the urban and social movements could use digital commons in
their effort to shape horizontal, egalitarian and alternative proposals for
the cities.
Please submit your abstract of 250 words by *10th February 2018*, to
Natalia-Rozalia Avlona ([log in to unmask]) and Charalampos Tsavdaroglou (
[log in to unmask]).
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Natalia-Rozalia Avlona,
*PhD Researcher @Heteropolitics ERC Research ProjectAristotle University of
Thessaloniki, Greece**http://heteropolitics.net/
<http://heteropolitics.net/>*
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