Countermapping Displacement and Resistance in Alameda County with the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project

McElroy, Erin. “Countermapping Displacement and Resistance in Alameda County with the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project.” American Quarterly 70, no. 3 (2018): 601–4.

The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project is a data visualization, data analysis, and digital storytelling collective documenting dispossession and resistance upon gentrifying landscapes. As a collective of housing justice activists, researchers, technologists, artists, filmmakers, and oral historians, we create digital humanities pieces embedded in broader antidisplacement work transpiring in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, and New York City. For our submission to this special issue of American Quarterly, we are focusing on ongoing work that we have been conducting in California's Alameda County since 2015, when we launched a project mapping displacement and resistance in three of the county's cities: Oakland, Fremont, and the City of Alameda. We first self-published much of this work in September 2016, as part of a community event that we orchestrated at the East Side Arts Alliance in East Oakland. However, since then, the work has continued to grow, largely living online in our interactive report, Counterpoints: Data and Stories for Resisting Displacement (arcg.is/10SKLX).

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