Explores of social justice, citizenship, and community in the context of data-driven urbanism
- Investigates critical issues of social justice, citizenship and community in the context of the powerful economic rationales of data-driven urban development
- Makes a theoretical contribution towards framing social justice from the perspective of the datafied city
- Documents new case studies and exposes new avenues for research across social justice, critical data studies, education and politics
Data Justice and the Right to the City engages with theories of social justice and data-driven urbanism. It explores the intersecting concerns of data justice - both the harms and civic possibilities of the datafied society – and the right to the city - a call to redress the uneven distribution of resources and rights in urban contexts. These concerns are addressed through a variety of topics: digital social services, as cities use data and algorithms to administer to citizens; education, as data-driven practices transform learning and higher education; labour, as platforms create new precarities and risks for workers; and activists who seek to make creative and political interventions into these developments. This edited collection proposes frameworks for understanding the effects of data-driven technologies at the municipal scale and offers strategies for intervention by both scholars and citizens.
Author(s): Morgan Currie, Jeremy Knox, Callum McGregor
Series: Studies in Global Justice and Human Rights
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Year: 2022
Language: English
Commentary: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-data-justice-and-the-right-to-the-city.html
Pages: 304
City: Edinburgh
Foreword - Lina Dencik
Data Justice and the Right to the City: An Introduction - Morgan Currie, Jeremy Knox and Callum McGregor
Part I Algorithmic Government
1. Predictive policing: transforming the city into a medium for control - Fieke Jansen
2. ‘Hostile Data’, Migration and the City: Enacting and Resisting Spaces of Hostility in the UK - Philippa Metcalfe
3. Datafied Child Welfare Services as Sites of Struggle - Joanna Redden, Jessica Brand, Ina Sander and Harry Warne
4. Seven Stories from AlgorithmWatch
Part II Education
5. The civic university as key agent in the production of urban space - Nicolas Zehner
6. Rescuing Data Literacy from Dataism - Huw C. Davies
7. Smart Citizen Apprentices: Digital Urbanism and Coding as Techno-Solutions to the City - Ben Williamson
Part III Gig, platform, and crowd labour
8. Cadies, Clocks, and the Data-Driven Capital: Incorporating Gig Workers in Edinburgh - Cailean Gallagher
9. The Students Are Already (Gig) Workers - Karen Gregory
10. Data (in)justice, protest and the (re)making of space among fragmented platform workers - Alex J. Wood and Vili Lehdonvirta
Part IV Art and Activism in the Datafied City
11. The Street, the Square, and the Net: How Urban Activists Make and Use Networked Technologies - Jessica Feldman
12. Facial Recognition and The Right to Appear: Infrastructural Challenges in Anti-Surveillance Resistance - Benedetta Catanzariti
13. Data Burdens: Epistemologies of Evidence in Police Reform and Abolition Movements - Britt Paris, Morgan Currie, Irene Pasquetto and Jennifer Pierre
14. Data Resistance Through Public Art: Reclaiming Narratives In/Of the City - Pip Thornton
Postscript
Doing Data Dialectically: Between Alienation and Democratic Urban Renewal
