TY  - CHAP
AB  - Abstract Smart city developments have been subjected to technocratic envisioning and neoliberal urban developments. However, there have been attempts to reclaim the right to the city through organizing civic initiatives to widen the access to the making of future technologies and cities. This chapter draws on Mouffe’s concept of agonistic relations to explore the diversifying ideals, rhetoric, and practices of hackathon organization to consider how they might cooperate with or contest one another and provide alternative means to technology and city making. The chapter analyzes different ways of organizing hackathons and discusses the opportunities for participants with diverse social backgrounds, knowledges and technical competences to join and work together. By examining the conflictual positions, articulations, and arrangements to widen participation, the chapter suggests that more open, inclusive, and collaborative city-making events might be possible. Further work is needed to examine conflictual hackathon participation practices and other civic initiatives to pursue a more egalitarian smart city.
SN  - 978-1-78769-140-7, 978-1-78769-139-1/
DO  - 10.1108/978-1-78769-139-120191010
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78769-139-120191010
AU  - Perng Sung-Yueh
ED  - Paolo Cardullo
ED  - Cesare Di Feliciantonio
ED  - Rob Kitchin
PY  - 2019
Y1  - 2019/01/01
TI  - Hackathons and the Practices and Possibilities of Participation
T2  - The Right to the Smart City
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 135
EP  - 149
Y2  - 2024/09/26
ER  -