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            lang="EN-US">Refusal and the Computational City -
            <br>
            From (de)coding the machine to (en)coding care</span></b></p>
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            Issue for the journal Digital Geography and Society</span></i></p>
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            Vadiati and Maja-Lee Voigt</span></i></p>
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          mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Big tech companies are
          more than just vague corporate
          ideas drifting in a cloud. They have gradually become our
          neighbors, shaping
          spaces and futures (Berlin VS Amazon 2023;
          Solnit/Schwartzenberg 2018).
          Promising the most convenient ‘solutions’ to transform
          increasingly tech-driven
          cities, corporations influence what is on the map; how
          place-based politics are
          designed; and, ultimately, who gets to participate in
          decision-making-processes
          about our living-together of tomorrow (Mattern 2021;
          Shaw/Graham 2017).</span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"
        style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
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          mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">In these often
          tech-euphoric times, bottom-up
          reclamations and cyberfeminist approaches to ‘hack’ the urban
          have become
          important and critical voices (Maalsen 2022; Sollfrank 2018):
          their organizing
          based on the principles of commoning, sovereignty, and
          feminist positionality
          refuse the looming tech-solutions to multiple crises (Vadiati
          2022; Voigt
          2023). Sovereignty, especially, has been contested among major
          and resistant
          forces. Sadowski (2021: 1732) foresees the fundamental shift
          of technology
          companies in moving beyond treating “the city merely as a
          place to extract
          value from and start thinking of it as also a space to
          exercise dominion over”.
          The bottom-up urban sovereignty discourse challenges that and
          aims to reclaim
          control over technology, space, and the politics between them
          (Lynch 2020;
          Pierri/Lüning 2023). It meets the growing privatization of
          public goods in the
          interest of capitalist goals with drafts of alternative
          resources and worlds.</span></p>
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          mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Be it as activists,
          educators, hackers, tinkerers,
          artists, practitioners, and/ or academics: (digital)
          grassroots collectives
          have long been pioneers of opening the black box, building
          informational
          infrastructures, and creatively thinking through the
          entanglement of the
          interspace between the analog and the digital. In the urban
          context, however,
          this is often a balancing act. Grassroots movements stand
          between fighting for
          a right to the (digitally accessible) city and initiating or
          fueling
          gentrification processes with their creative capital (Tonkiss
          2013). Although
          they mostly resist the dominant techno-political settings of a
          platformization
          of cities, they similarly feed into its entrepreneurial,
          solutionist, and
          techno-deterministic “fix-thinking” (Carraro 2023: 2). Often
          enough, grassroots
          collectives fill gaps of the neoliberal city with unpaid
          care-work and
          infrastructure. Therewith, they repair and reproduce what
          might need
          revolutionary change instead.</span></p>
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          mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">At the same time,
          techno-urban practices from the
          bottom up also remind us to tend to a world “in which
          carelessness reigns” (The
          Care Collective 2020: 1; Mattern 2018; Kouki/Makrygianni
          2022). Leaning on the
          works of Sollfrank (2018), Russell (2020), Steele (2021), and
          D’Ignazio/Klein
          (2020) (among others) occurring digital, cyber-, and glitch
          feminisms represent
          diverse techno-affine and interdisciplinary practices,
          counter-strategies to
          oppressions as well as political standpoints which celebrate
          creative ways to
          “live, here and now” (Carraro 2023: 6). Centering digital joy,
          community-building, and survival strategies, these approaches
          of refusing the
          computational city constitute a new relational geography of
          transformation and
          prefiguration among urban denizens. Here, refusal has shown to
          be a crucial
          practice that does not simply reject technology. Instead, “it
          asks for
          multiplicity, difference, and co-existence, rather than fixed
          systems of logic
          that organise and tie socio-political lives to undeclared
          algorithmic biases
          and colonial histories” (transmediale 2021). Refusing,
          therefore, embodies a
          critical engagement with how we know (about technology)
          (Tuck/Wayne 2014;
          Simpson 2007). It demands collective responsibility and
          negotiations of
          otherwise politics in an increasingly unequal smart society.</span></p>
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          mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">This special issue seeks
          to draw together a diverse
          range of essays that addresses prefigurative grassroots
          urbanism in the context
          of post-digital cities. In it, we would like to amplify voices
          which usually do
          not get much visibility in the (academic) discourses around
          technocapitalist
          urbanism and strategies against it. Whether you are a
          practitioner, activist,
          self-declared cyberfeminist, part of a collective, digital
          advocate, academic
          or urbanist_a, we gently invite you to think with us about the
          following
          questions:</span></p>
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style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
          lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span
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            </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
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          lang="EN-US">What kinds of actions, activists,
          and alliances embody the right to digital urbanism and
          practices of care in
          cities? With what kinds of caveats and complexities?</span></p>
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          lang="EN-US">What are the geographies of
          bottom-up, cyber-, techno, hackfeminist practices today and
          how are they
          inscribed into urban spaces and materialities – from streets
          to screens and in
          between?</span></p>
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            </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
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          lang="EN-US">What are places and arenas of
          negotiations about the future (smart) city? Who is involved?
          Who is not?</span></p>
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style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
          lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span
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            </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
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          Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
          "Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
          lang="EN-US">What methods and care-ful-ness
          should we apply for a more entangled practice of city-building
          in the future?
          How to acknowledge the various spatial settings from virtual
          and analogue
          worlds? How to sensitively embed anxieties, trauma, and
          uncertainties of
          everyday urban life today?</span></p>
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style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
          lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span
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            </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
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          Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
          "Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
          lang="EN-US">And: What do counter-tech-urbanisms
          (from the bottom up) look like?</span></p>
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        style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
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          mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">We believe we are in
          desperate need of collective and
          hopeful imaginaries that resist the corporate-dominated and
          colonialist
          narratives of (digitized) worlds to come. With this special
          issue, we would
          like to start a conversation that goes beyond the gates of the
          academy,
          recognizing that we cannot understand the city from analyses
          alone. Thus, we
          are looking forward to articles jointly building a new
          vocabulary around
          movements of refusal in cities, from (de)coding the machine to
          (en)coding care.</span></p>
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            mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Formalities:</span></b></p>
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          mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Our goal is to accept a
          portfolio of articles that
          provide theoretical as well as empirical contributions. If you
          are basing your
          paper on fieldwork and/ or with the help and support of others
          (which all of us
          do), please consider making visible your process of knowledge
          production and
          add your (non-academic) collaborators as co-authors. For
          inspiration on how to
          consciously think about an author’s order, see </span><span
          lang="de"><a
            href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrLOGokqL7w"><span
              style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times
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          Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"> resource by
          CLEAR (Drmaxlib 2021). Authors are defined as those who have
          made a significant
          contribution to the conception, design, execution, or
          interpretation of the
          reported study. Transparency about the contributions of
          authors is encouraged,
          for example in the form of a </span><span lang="de"><a
href="https://www.elsevier.com/authors/policies-and-guidelines/credit-author-statement"><span
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          lang="EN-US">. We warmly welcome the work of
          collectives!</span></p>
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          mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Should you wish to
          submit your contribution, please
          send <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">a
            350-words-abstract</b> to <br>
          <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Niloufar Vadiati
            (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:niloufar.vadiati@hcu-hamburg.de">niloufar.vadiati@hcu-hamburg.de</a>)</b> and <b
            style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Maja-Lee
            Voigt <br>
            (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:maja-lee.voigt@leuphana.de">maja-lee.voigt@leuphana.de</a>)</b> by <b
            style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">October
            30, 2023</b>. Notification of acceptance: <br>
          November 20, 2023. Please specify your methods, theoretical
          framing and central
          argument. <br>
          In order to curate the submission and publication process as
          caring, mindful,
          and inclusive as possible, we invite you to fill out </span><span
          lang="de"><a
href="https://cloud.logistical.city/apps/forms/s/by3aNnbtCDtqMWrgp8q8qb2s"><span
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          much encourage the collaboration between all kinds of job
          practices (academic,
          practitioner), disciplines, backgrounds, institutional
          hierarchies, and levels
          of experiences. We will prioritize the perspectives we feel do
          not get
          represented enough and/or are often affected by any kind(s) of
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          including notes and references</span></p>
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          lang="EN-US">we expect submissions of accepted
          papers by April 30, 2024. Please select the article type “VSI:
          Refusal and the
          Computational City” </span><span lang="de"><a
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              submitting your manuscript</span></a></span><span
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          lang="EN-US">.</span></p>
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          mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">We thank you for your
          time and interest, and are very
          much looking forward to learning from your work.</span></p>
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        style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
        12.0pt;margin-left:0cm"><span
          style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:
          115%;font-family:"Times New
          Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
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          mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"
        style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
        12.0pt;margin-left:0cm"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Bahnschrift",sans-serif;
            mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
            Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New
            Roman";
            mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">References:</span></b></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"
        style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
        12.0pt;margin-left:0cm"><span
          style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:
          115%;font-family:"Times New
          Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
          Roman";
          mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Berlin VS Amazon (2023):
          Berlin VS Amazon.
          <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://berlinvsamazon.noblogs.org/">https://berlinvsamazon.noblogs.org/</a> [last accessed
          07/20/2023].</span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"
        style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
        12.0pt;margin-left:0cm"><span
          style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:
          115%;font-family:"Times New
          Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
          Roman";
          mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Carraro, Valentina
          (2023): Of fixes and glitches:
          Mixing metaphors for platform urbanism. In: Digital Geography
          and Society 4,
          100056.</span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"
        style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
        12.0pt;margin-left:0cm"><span
          style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:
          115%;font-family:"Times New
          Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
          Roman";
          mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">D’Ignazio, Catherine /
          Klein, Lauren F. (2020): Data
          feminism. Strong ideas seriesCambridge, Mass: MIT Press.</span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"
        style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
        12.0pt;margin-left:0cm"><span
          style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:
          115%;font-family:"Times New
          Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
          Roman";
          mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Drmaxlib (2021):
          Laboratory Life: Author Order
          (Episode 1). <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrLOGokqL7w">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrLOGokqL7w</a> [last
          accessed
          07/20/2023].</span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"
        style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
        12.0pt;margin-left:0cm"><span
          style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:
          115%;font-family:"Times New
          Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
          Roman";
          mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Kouki, Hara/
          Makrygianni, Vasiliki (2022): Call for
          papers - Digital Geography and Society.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/digital-geography-and-society/about/call-for-papers">https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/digital-geography-and-society/about/call-for-papers</a>
          [last accessed 07/28/2023].</span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"
        style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
        12.0pt;margin-left:0cm"><span
          style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:
          115%;font-family:"Times New
          Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
          Roman";
          mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Lynch, Casey R. (2020):
          Contesting digital futures:
          Urban politics, alternative economies, and the movement for
          technological
          sovereignty in Barcelona. In: Antipode 52/3, 660–680.</span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"
        style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
        12.0pt;margin-left:0cm"><span
          style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:
          115%;font-family:"Times New
          Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
          Roman";
          mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Maalsen, Sophia (2022):
          The hack: What it is and why
          it matters to urban studies. In: Urban Studies 59/2, 453–465.</span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"
        style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
        12.0pt;margin-left:0cm"><span
          style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:
          115%;font-family:"Times New
          Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
          Roman";
          mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Mattern, Shannon (2018):
          Maintenance and Care. In:
          Places Journal.
          <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://placesjournal.org/article/maintenance-and-care/">https://placesjournal.org/article/maintenance-and-care/</a> [last
          accessed 02/24/2020].</span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"
        style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
        12.0pt;margin-left:0cm"><span
          style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:
          115%;font-family:"Times New
          Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
          Roman";
          mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Mattern, Shannon (2021):
          A City is Not a Computer:
          Other Urban Intelligences. Princeton: Princeton University
          Press.</span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"
        style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
        12.0pt;margin-left:0cm"><span
          style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:
          115%;font-family:"Times New
          Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
          Roman";
          mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Pierri, Paola/ Lüning,
          Elizabeth Calderón (2023):
          Civic Participation in the Datafied Society| A Democratic
          Approach to Digital
          Rights: Comparing Perspectives on Digital Sovereignty on the
          City Level. In:
          International Journal of Communication 17, 3600–3618.</span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"
        style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
        12.0pt;margin-left:0cm"><span
          style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:
          115%;font-family:"Times New
          Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
          Roman";
          mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Russell, Legacy (2020):
          Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto.
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          mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Voigt, Maja-Lee (2023):
          We build this city on rocks
          and (feminist) code: hacking corporate computational designs
          of cities to come.
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