The Ethics and Data of Mapping Displacement: On the Work of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project
A Lecture by Erin McElroy, Postdoctoral Associate at AI Now Institute and Cofounder of Anti-Eviction Mapping Project
12/03
In this talk, Erin McElroy will focus upon how the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project (AEMP) uses, compiles, and theorizes eviction data. The AEMP formed in the height of the San Francisco Bay Area’s “Tech Boom 2.0.” During this time, entanglements of technocapitalism, and real estate speculation brushed up against ongoing histories of racial dispossession, inciting heightened eviction rates. The AEMP emerged to provide analytics, media, and documentation that could be used by local housing justice organizations and activists in their fights against gentrification. Prioritizing producing knowledge with rather that for those most impacted by gentrification, the project has since grown in region, method, and scope, now maintaining new chapters in New York City and Los Angeles. In this talk, Erin will discuss some of the challenges that the AEMP has experienced as it continues to grow, particularly during a moment in which practices of producing eviction data and maps have become more mainstream, sometimes becoming entangled in data colonial praxes. In this moment, how can we keep eviction research tethered to local struggles, reflective of on-the-ground analytics?
Organized by Columbia GSAPP’s Urban Planning program as part of the Lecture in Planning Series.
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