Interstitiality as practice: Exploring the discursive practices producing the tech city
研究通过访谈荷兰鹿特丹科技城市相关从业者，揭示他们如何通过四种论述实践（弥合修辞缺口、表达怀疑与异议、策略性复述叙事、重新定义主流表述）来持续塑造和协商科技城市的形象。
This article examines the discursive practices through which actors produce and negotiate representations of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, as a tech city. We approach the tech city as a discursive construct and argue that its ongoing remaking can be obscured when scholarship centers on dominant governmental and corporate institutions as coherent, top-down discourse producers. Instead, we show how tech city institutions function as enacted assemblages shaped by individuals’ interstitial practices. We examine such practices through text-elicited, in-depth interviews with actors involved in those institutions. Our findings identify four clusters of practices through which individuals professionally engaged in the tech city (i) critically addressed rhetorical gaps and positioned themselves as bridges, (ii) expressed skepticism and dissent, (iii) reproduced narratives tactically, and (iv) resignified dominant representations.