{"id":641,"date":"2025-03-13T14:52:44","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T17:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laboratorios.ufpr.br\/tecnosferalab\/?p=641"},"modified":"2025-03-18T14:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T17:13:10","slug":"artigo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laboratorios.ufpr.br\/tecnosferalab\/2025\/03\/13\/artigo\/","title":{"rendered":"Building a Digital Wall: the political economy of smart surveillance in Curitiba, Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>ABSTRACT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This article focuses on the \u2018Digital Wall\u2019, a project created by the City of Curitiba (Brazil) to integrate algorithmic surveillance technologies into its local law enforcement agency, including AI-powered facial recognition. We depart from a political economical framework which integrates the work of the geographer Milton Santos with a wider literature on smart cities and surveillance. We find that the Digital Wall aptly combines the fable of \u2018smart cities\u2019 \u2013 the continuous datafication of urban space \u2013 with fears around security and violence. This fable, as we analyse, draws social legitimacy and public investment for surveillance technologies. We then unravel the materiality of the Digital Wall&#8217;s perversities, including the public-private partnerships in its development, as well as how it is further used as a \u2018showcase\u2019 for a new paradigm of a (walled) smart city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Como citar:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PEREIRA, Gabriel; ISRAEL, Carolina; FIRMINO, Rodrigo; KRAMER, Henrique; ABAD, J\u00falia. Building a Digital Wall: the political economy of smart surveillance in Curitiba, Brazil.<strong> Globalizations<\/strong>, v.\u00a00, n.\u00a00, p.\u00a01\u201321, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dispon\u00edvel em: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/14747731.2024.2447672#abstract\">https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/14747731.2024.2447672#abstract<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABSTRACT This article focuses on the \u2018Digital Wall\u2019, a project created by the City of Curitiba (Brazil) to integrate algorithmic surveillance technologies into its local law enforcement agency, including AI-powered facial recognition. We depart from a political economical framework which integrates the work of the geographer Milton Santos with a wider literature on smart cities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,16],"tags":[106,86,107,93,94],"class_list":["post-641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-categoria-artigos-cientificos","category-categoria-post","tag-cidades-inteligentes","tag-publicacoes","tag-reconhecimento-facial","tag-textos","tag-vigilancia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laboratorios.ufpr.br\/tecnosferalab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laboratorios.ufpr.br\/tecnosferalab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laboratorios.ufpr.br\/tecnosferalab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laboratorios.ufpr.br\/tecnosferalab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laboratorios.ufpr.br\/tecnosferalab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/laboratorios.ufpr.br\/tecnosferalab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1164,"href":"https:\/\/laboratorios.ufpr.br\/tecnosferalab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions\/1164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laboratorios.ufpr.br\/tecnosferalab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laboratorios.ufpr.br\/tecnosferalab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laboratorios.ufpr.br\/tecnosferalab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laboratorios.ufpr.br\/tecnosferalab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}