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27.05.2022 /

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#Gentrification
#Anti_Eviction
#InJustice

Speaker: Erin McElroy

In this presentation, Erin McElroy of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project will explore some of the intersections of art and gentrification. Drawing upon examples from the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles in the US, as well as Bucharest and Cluj in Romania, McElroy will offer some examples of how new art spaces and infrastructure can result in increased property values, cultural loss, and racial banishment. At the same time, McElroy will offer examples of arts-based practice and collectives rooted in housing justice can be a part of communal efforts to resist gentrification and dispossession.

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Erin McElroy is an Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, and is cofounder of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project—a counter-cartography and digital media collective that produces maps, tools, and stories to support the work of housing justice in gentrifying cities. Erin’s research focuses on the intersections of property, eviction, technology, data, and empire in the US and Romania, from contexts of racial dispossession and technocapitalism to housing justice and anti-imperial organizing. Their newest project, Landlord Tech Watch, is a collective effort dedicated to mapping out the harms associated with landlord surveillance technologies such as biometric cameras and tenant screening algorithms. Erin is also an editor of the Radical Housing Journal, an open access journal that brings together housing organizers and researchers transnationally.