Publications

Author/Title Research Type Related Fields
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. Publications, Articles Cities, Citizenship, Critical Human Geography, Critical Theory, Housing, Politics, Race and Ethnicity, Science and Technology, Transnational, Urban Studies
McElroy, Erin. “Silicon Valley Imperialism: Contemporary Conjunctures.” Dialogues in Urban Research, March 2, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1177/27541258251318989. Publications, Articles American Studies, Cities, Ideology, Justice, Politics, Race and Ethnicity, Science and Technology, Social Movements, Transnational, Urban Studies
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. Publications, Articles American Studies, Class, Critical Human Geography, Critical Theory, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Housing, Labor, Race and Ethnicity, Science and Technology, Transnational
McElroy, Erin. Silicon Valley Imperialism: Techno Fantasies and Frictions in Postsocialist Times. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024. Publications, Books American Studies, Critical Human Geography, Global, Housing, Neoliberalism, Race and Ethnicity, Science and Technology, Social Movements, Transnational, Urban Studies
Thompson, S.  (2022). Caring Housing Futures: A Radical Care Framework for Understanding Rent Control Politics in Seattle, USA. Antipode. DOI: 10.1111/anti.12874. Publications Feminism and Feminist Theory, Housing, Race and Ethnicity, Urban Studies
McElroy, Erin, and Manon Vergerio. “Automating Gentrification: Landlord Technologies and Housing Justice Organizing in New York City Homes.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 40, no. 4 (August 1, 2022): 607–26. Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Cities, Housing, Justice, Race and Ethnicity, Science and Technology, Social Movements, Urban Studies
Anti-Eviction Mapping Project. Counterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement and Resistance. Oakland: PM Press, 2021. Publications, Books Community, History, Housing, Justice, Mapping, Public Scholarship, Race and Ethnicity, Radical Pedagogy, Social Movements, Urban Studies
Ybarra, M (2021) Site Fight! Towards the abolition of immigrant detention on Tacoma’s Tar Pits (and everywhere else). Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography 53 (1):36-55. Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Cities, Citizenship, Environment, Immigration, Justice, Migration, Race and Ethnicity, Social Movements
Heynen, N and M. Ybarra. (2021) “On Abolition Ecologies and Making Freedom as a Place”, Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography 53(1): 21 – 35. Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Environment, Indigenous, Justice, Race and Ethnicity, Social Movements, Social Stratification/Inequality
McElroy, Erin. “Property as Technology.” City 24, no. 1–2 (2020): 112–29. Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Critical Human Geography, Housing, Race and Ethnicity, Science and Technology, Urban Studies
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.  Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Culture, Global, Housing, Justice, Neoliberalism, Queer Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Science and Technology, Transnational, Urban Studies
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.  Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters American Studies, Critical Theory, Housing, Indigenous, Migration, Queer Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Science and Technology, Transnational, Urban Studies
McElroy, E. “Data, dispossession, and Facebook: techno-imperialism and toponymy in gentrifying San Francisco.” Urban Geography 40, no. 6 (2019): 826–45. Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters American Studies, Cities, Class, Critical Human Geography, Housing, Labor, Race and Ethnicity, Science and Technology, Urban Studies
McElroy, Erin, and Alex Werth. “Deracinated Dispossessions: On the Foreclosures of ‘Gentrification’ in Oakland, Ca.” Antipode 51, no. 3 (2019): 878–98. Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters American Studies, Cities, Critical Human Geography, Housing, Race and Ethnicity, Radical Pedagogy, Science and Technology, Urban Studies
Ybarra, M (2019) 'We are not ignorant': Transnational migrants’ experiences of racialized securitization. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 37: 197-215 Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Area Studies, Immigration, Indigenous, Migration, Nationalism, Race and Ethnicity
Sandoval, Edgar. 2019. “Examining the Everyday for Immigration Politics.” Society & Space: Essays and Features, January. http://societyandspace.org/2019/01/23/examining-the-everyday-for-immigration-politics/. Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Citizenship, Immigration, Migration, Politics, Queer Studies, Race and Ethnicity
Ybarra, M. (2019) “On becoming a transnational Latinx geographies killjoy.” Society & Space Open Site. http://societyandspace.org/2019/01/23/on-becoming-a-latinx-geographies-killjoy/, published January 23, 2019. Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Indigenous, Race and Ethnicity, Transnational
Atanasoski, Neda, and Erin McElroy. “Postsocialism and the Afterlives of Revolution: Impossible Spaces of Dissent.” In Reframing Critical Literary, and Cultural Theories, edited by Nicoletta Pireddu, 273–97. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Critical Theory, Global, Nationalism, Neoliberalism, Politics, Popular Culture, Race and Ethnicity, Social Movements, Transnational, Urban Studies
Maharawal, Manissa M. and ErinMcElroy. “The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project: Counter Mapping and Oral History Toward Bay Area Housing Justice.” Annals of the American Association of Geographers 108, no. 2 (2018): 380–89. Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Geographic Information Systems, Housing, Justice, Mapping, Race and Ethnicity, Radical Pedagogy, Research Methods, Science and Technology, Social Movements, Urban Studies
McElroy, Erin. “Countermapping Displacement and Resistance in Alameda County with the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project.” American Quarterly 70, no. 3 (2018): 601–4. Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Cities, Geovisualization, Housing, Justice, Mapping, Race and Ethnicity, Research Methods, Science and Technology, Urban Studies
Sandoval, Edgar. 2018. “More than Violence: UndocuQueers’ Narratives of Disidentification and World-Making in Seattle, Washington, USA.” Gender, Place & Culture 25 (12): 1759–80. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2018.1558179 Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Citizenship, Immigration, Migration, Politics, Queer Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Transnational
Karin Schwiter, Kendra Strauss and Kim England (2018) “At home with the boss: Live-in elder care workers in Austria, Canada, Switzerland and the UK,” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers,43(3): 462-476 Publications Critical Theory, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Justice, Labor, Migration, Neoliberalism, Politics, Race and Ethnicity
2018. Elwood, S. and Leszczynski, A. Feminist Digital Geographies. Gender, Place and Culture. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2018.1465396 Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Big Data, Critical Theory, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Geographic Information Systems, Queer Studies, Race and Ethnicity
Lawson, V. and Elwood, S. 2018. Relational Poverty Politics: Forms, Struggles, Possibilities. University of Georgia Press. Publications, Books Citizenship, Critical Theory, Economics, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Immigration, Politics, Poverty, Race and Ethnicity, Social Movements, Social Stratification/Inequality
Lunstrum, E and Ybarra, M (2018) Deploying Difference: Security threat narratives and state displacement from protected aresas. Conservation and Society 16: 114-124 Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Environment, Indigenous, Justice, Nationalism, Race and Ethnicity, Transnational