Abstract
This paper focuses on how insurgencies are continually recast in parallel to State-led redevelopment or ‘upgrading’. It brings attention to communities that shape and are reshaped by inclusion of data in processes through which citizens participate in city-making. Drawing on a comparative case study of intensively upgraded informal settlements in São Paulo, Brazil, findings show that data-based insurgencies have been forged from prior collective action. The resultant co-created or situated data challenge the State’s legitimacy as sole arbiter of informal settlement representation and infrastructure transformation in cities. In this context, the term infrastructural insurgency is proposed as a way that socio-material agencies iterate over time and in space, and to stimulate discourse about the future of upgrading. It reflects on which interactions between data and redevelopment can inform planning in post-redevelopment conditions across global south.
Highlights
Insurgent planning has sought to recognize contexts of socio-spatial injustice in cities, focusing on how formal and informal planning frameworks interact and reinforce one another in poor neighborhoods (Sandercock, 1999; Friedmann, 2011)
There is a lack of concrete, empirical data about what differentiates these spaces (Watson, 2003) and the panorama of socio-spatial inequalities shaped by ongoing cycles of urban redevelopment, recent ‘smart’ data-based versions (Moser, 2014)
Situated data reveals the lived impacts of redevelopment in informal settlements, and it is evidence against the proposals that redevelopment makes
Summary
This paper focuses on how insurgencies are continually recast in parallel to State-led redevelopment or ‘upgrading’. The resultant co-created or situated data challenge the State’s legitimacy as sole arbiter of informal settlement representation and infrastructure transformation in cities. In this context, the term infrastructural insurgency is proposed as a way that socio-material agencies iterate over time and in space, and to stimulate discourse about the future of upgrading. The term infrastructural insurgency is proposed as a way that socio-material agencies iterate over time and in space, and to stimulate discourse about the future of upgrading It reflects on which interactions between data and redevelopment can inform planning in post-redevelopment conditions across global south.
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