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
