Critical Human Geography

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Patricia Lopez
Assistant Professor
Jen Rose Smith
Assistant Professor
Gretchen Sneegas
Assistant Teaching Professor

Related Research

McElroy, Erin. “Oraşul Viitorului: Beyond the Sliconisation of Postsocialist Cluj.” In Anti-Atlas: Critical Area Studies from the East of the West, edited by Tim Beasley-Murray, Wendy Bracewell, and Michal Murawski, 113–20. FRINGE. UCL Press, 2025. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/A/bo257337112.html.
McElroy, Erin. “Human Capital and Digital Citizenship: Postsocialism’s Urban Dispossessions.” In Urban Marginality, Racialisation, Interdependence, edited by Alexandrescu, Filip, Ryan Powell, and Ana Vilenica. Routledge, 2025.
McElroy, Erin. “The Work of Landlord Technology: The Fictions of Frictionless Property Management.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, May 8, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1177/02637758241232758.
McElroy, Erin. Silicon Valley Imperialism: Techno Fantasies and Frictions in Postsocialist Times. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024.
Espinosa Guarderas, Juan Mateo. "Herbs, Soil, and Health: Beyond Human and Planetary Medicine." University of Washington, 2023.
Thompson, S. (2023). Caring in Crises: Spatializing Infrastructures of Care Through Tenant Protections [Dissertation]. University of Washington.
Andino, Lucas, y Juan Mateo Espinosa. 2022. “Revealing and Writing the Living Soil”. post(s) 8 (1):80-105. https://doi.org/10.18272/posts.v8i8.2690
McElroy, Erin. “Property as Technology.” City 24, no. 1–2 (2020): 112–29.
McElroy, E. “Data, dispossession, and Facebook: techno-imperialism and toponymy in gentrifying San Francisco.” Urban Geography 40, no. 6 (2019): 826–45.
McElroy, Erin, and Alex Werth. “Deracinated Dispossessions: On the Foreclosures of ‘Gentrification’ in Oakland, Ca.” Antipode 51, no. 3 (2019): 878–98.