Asst. Professor of Geography
@UW
; cofounder
@antievictionmap
; working to abolish imperial technologies & build tenant power; author - Silicon Valley Imperialism
I'm excited that my book Silicon Valley Imperialism is coming out soon, and it turns out that there are a few more days to preorder it for half off with the 50% coupon CYBER23.
Also so grateful to include the amazing Alex Horghidan's artwork on the cover!
Erin McElroy (
@erin_mc_elroy
) joins
@AmStudies
as an assistant professor. A scholar of critical race and feminist technology studies and a longtime housing organizer, McElroy’s current work focuses on landlord technologies, housing justice, racial capitalism and U.S. empire.
We’re thrilled that after five years of collaborative work, Counterpoints is really real!! Thanks to all of the atlas’s contributors and supporters, and to PM Press!
Corporate landlords often hide behind complex networks of LLCs and LPs to avoid accountability while they push out low-income tenants of color. Our tool
#Evictorbook
pulls back the curtain to show who is really driving the region’s housing crisis
Tomorrow at
@4sWeb
, HCDE PhD student Brett Halperin (
@bretthalp
) will present in the Techniques, Technologies, and Relationships in Mapping Evictions Panel about co-designing an interactive story mapping system for housing justice action. Details:
#4s2021
We are investing in
#antimonopoly
scholarship, funding 26 research proposals at a critical time. As ESP Director of
#Antimonopoly
@chao_becky
describes, this will help us “dissect the taxonomy of harms perpetuated by concentrated private power.”
📣 Policing and Carcerality in the Americas: Technologies/Infrastructures
📆 March 21, 4-5:30pm EST
🗣
@erin_mc_elroy
@GeoArbona
and me
RSVP ⬇️ and s/o to Andrea Miller at
@FloridaAtlantic
for making this series happen!
Calyx Microgrant Spotlight: We are funding
@antievictionmap
's reporting about the danger of landlord tech, including "Landlord Technologies of Gentrification: Facial Recognition and Building Access Technologies in New York City Homes"
The long wait is over! Our edited volume is ready to be read and shared today!
Thanks to all the authors for their wonderfull contributions, to Marina Milanovic for amazing design and for publishing it under copyleft license!
@clancynewyork
@benchansfield
Yes, for sure. So many stories! There have been efforts in CA to legislate that they disclose actual ownership info with the state, but of course the real estate lobby kept that from going anywhere.
Tomorrow we're talking about Radical Mapping Practices and spatial justice with
@erin_mc_elroy
@Mishuana
@EGonzaba
and Shana Griffin. Couldn't think of a better way to end the last week of classes!
#csufdh
@clancynewyork
@benchansfield
Exactly! Well put. This is in part why we’ve been building out Evictorbook in SF and Oakland but yes, corporate landlords and their tactics of anonymity are pervasive.
@mer__edith
@AmStudies
@LiberalArtsUT
Thanks so much- I appreciate that. And I’m excited to continue building upon the work we’ve been doing over the last couple of years.