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Erin McElroy
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McElroy, Erin, and Liviu Chelcea. “Who’s Afraid of Postsocialist Theory?” Eurasian Geography and Economics, (May 2025): 1–13. doi:10.1080/15387216.2025.2510352.
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. “Silicon Valley Imperialism: Contemporary Conjunctures.” Dialogues in Urban Research 3, no. 1 (March 1, 2025): 136–41. https://doi.org/10.1177/27541258251318989.
McElroy, Erin. “The Work of Landlord Technology: The Fictions of Frictionless Property Management.” Environment and Planning D 42, no. 4 (August 1, 2024): 456–75. https://doi.org/10.1177/02637758241232758.
McElroy, Erin. Silicon Valley Imperialism: Techno Fantasies and Frictions in Postsocialist Times. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024.
McElroy, Erin. “Techno-Imperialism.” In In Decoloniality in Eastern Europe: A Lexicon of Reorientation, edited by Ana Vilenica, 132–39. Novi Sad: Kuda, 2023.
McElroy, Erin. “Corruption, Șmecherie, and Siliconization: Retrospective and Speculative Technoculture in Postsocialist Romania.” Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 6, no. 2 (November 7, 2020): 1–26.
McElroy, Erin. “Digital Nomads and Settler Desires: Racial Fantasies of Silicon Valley Imperialism.” Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies 10, no. 1 (July 25, 2019): 215–49.
McElroy, Erin. “Digital Nomads in Siliconising Cluj: Material and Allegorical Dispossessions.” Urban Studies, 57(15): 3078–3094.