Overview

Despite the unprecedented incorporation of information and communications tools (ICTs) by marginalized communities worldwide, there is still a clear urban/non-urban access (and effective use) gap in ICT access across the world. This gap turns into a crucial infrastructure need as attention is turned to pressing issues faced by cities. The internet access gap is identifiable not only in the Global South—perceived as peripheral—but also in the Global North—regarded as advanced and the motor of technological development. This suggests the emergence and endurance of peripheries based on the level of techno-social development. Locally, this process accords with existing socio-spatial practices and with the ways ICTs are being introduced in the everyday. This book explores the recursive interaction between socio-spatial practices and the late introduction of the internet in three marginalized rurban communities in Brazil and in the UK. It brings to the fore challenges that cross North-South divides to propose an open theory of the connected rurban as a framework that addresses and accommodates the specificities of these communities in the first two decades of the twentieth-first century.

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Author:   Lorena Melgaço
Publisher:   Rowman & Littlefield International
Imprint:   Rowman & Littlefield International
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.413kg
ISBN:  

9781786609601

ISBN 10:   1786609606
Pages:   178
Publication Date:   16 August 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgements Chapter 1: The Emergence of the Connected Rurban: An Introduction to the Process of Socio-Technological Peripheralization Part 1: Developing An Appropriate Lens To Look At The Connected Rurban: A Multilevel Approach Chapter 2: Setting The Context Chapter 3: Peripherality And The Everyday Of The Rurban: Rethinking Methodology Part 2: An Introduction To The Everyday: On People, Places And The Internet Chapter 4: Santo Antônio do Salto Chapter 5: Pendeen Chapter 6: Noiva do Cordeiro Part 3: From The Global To The Everyday And Back Again: Bottom-Bottom Tactics As Means To Social Transformation? Chapter 7: Understanding Multilevel Peripherality In The Connected Rurban Chapter 8. A Conclusion, Or The Opening For Another Conversation: For An Open Theory Of The Connected Rurban References Index About the Author

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Drawing upon rich research on communities in Brazil and the UK, Melgaço illuminates the cultural and technological capacities of these peripheral communities to challenge techno-social marginalization. In these times of the dystopian impacts of global technological practices on local communities, this volume presents a refreshing and valuable lens to reflect on whether the internet can still foster a community model that enables social transformation. In Digital Peripheries, Lorena Melgaço urges readers to think beyond the urban--on to the rurban--to understand the role of digital technologies. This book gives an extraordinary insight to the inequalities of, but also the changes that come with, internet access in peripheral areas of the UK and Brazil. This is a highly needed addition to existing literature on smart urban developments, where the everyday in peripheral places is set into the limelight, changing the perspective'.

Drawing upon rich research on communities in Brazil and the UK, Melga�o illuminates the cultural and technological capacities of these peripheral communities to challenge techno-social marginalization. In these times of the dystopian impacts of global technological practices on local communities, this volume presents a refreshing and valuable lens to reflect on whether the internet can still foster a community model that enables social transformation. --Katharine Willis, University of Plymouth In Digital Peripheries, Lorena Melga�o urges readers to think beyond the urban--on to the rurban--to understand the role of digital technologies. This book gives an extraordinary insight to the inequalities of, but also the changes that come with, internet access in peripheral areas of the UK and Brazil. This is a highly needed addition to existing literature on smart urban developments, where the everyday in peripheral places is set into the limelight, changing the perspective'. --Carina Listerborn, Department of Urban Studies, Malm� University Drawing upon rich research on communities in Brazil and the UK, Melga�o illuminates the cultural and technological capacities of these peripheral communities to challenge techno-social marginalization. In these times of the dystopian impacts of global technological practices on local communities, this volume presents a refreshing and valuable lens to reflect on whether the internet can still foster a community model that enables social transformation. In Digital Peripheries, Lorena Melga�o urges readers to think beyond the urban--on to the rurban--to understand the role of digital technologies. This book gives an extraordinary insight to the inequalities of, but also the changes that come with, internet access in peripheral areas of the UK and Brazil. This is a highly needed addition to existing literature on smart urban developments, where the everyday in peripheral places is set into the limelight, changing the perspective'.

In Digital Peripheries, Lorena Melgaco urges readers to think beyond the urban, onto the rurban, to understand the role of digital technologies. This book gives an extraordinary insight to the inequalities of, but also the changes that comes with, internet access in peripheral areas of UK and Brazil. This is a highly needed addition to existing literature on smart urban developments, where instead the everyday in peripheral places are set into the limelight, which changes the perspective.--Carina Listerborn, Department of Urban Studies, Malmoe University

Drawing upon rich research on communities in Brazil and the UK, Melga�o illuminates the cultural and technological capacities of these peripheral communities to challenge techno-social marginalization. In these times of the dystopian impacts of global technological practices on local communities, this volume presents a refreshing and valuable lens to reflect on whether the internet can still foster a community model that enables social transformation. --Katharine Willis, University of Plymouth In Digital Peripheries, Lorena Melga�o urges readers to think beyond the urban--on to the rurban--to understand the role of digital technologies. This book gives an extraordinary insight to the inequalities of, but also the changes that come with, internet access in peripheral areas of the UK and Brazil. This is a highly needed addition to existing literature on smart urban developments, where the everyday in peripheral places is set into the limelight, changing the perspective'. --Carina Listerborn, Department of Urban Studies, Malm� University

Author Information

Lorena Melgaço is an urban scholar with a background in architecture and urbanism. Her research focuses on the forms of micropolitical agency within a global political structure of knowledge and technological production and its relation to the production of space, especially in the postcolony. She is interested in, among other things, the entwinement of digital technology and the production of space; the intersections of technological dependency, capitalist production of space and the socio-environmental crisis, and the challenges of planning education and practice from a socio-spatial justice perspective.

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