Publications

Author/Title Research Type Related Fields
McElroy, Erin. “Undoing Landlord Technologies: Beyond the Propertied Logics of the Pandemic Past and Present.” In Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen, edited by Neda Atanasoski and Nassim Parvin, 79–94. Duke University Press, 2025. Publications, Articles American Studies, Cities, Critical Theory, Culture, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Housing, Justice, Race and Ethnicity, Science and Technology, Urban Studies
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. Publications, Articles Area Studies, Cities, Critical Human Geography, Housing, Science and Technology, Transnational, Urban Studies
McElroy, Erin, Matthew Martignoni, Jeantelle Laberinto, Priya Prabhakar, and Joseph Smooke. “Against Landlord Technology in San Francisco.” In Dispatches from the Threshold: Tenant Power in Times of Crisis, edited by Rae Baker and Alexander Ferrer, 95–107. Fernwood Publishing, 2025. Publications, Articles Cities, Housing, Public Scholarship, Science and Technology, Social Movements, Urban Studies
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 3, no. 1 (March 1, 2025): 136–41. 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. “Boycotting, Identifying, and Organizing Against Serial Evictors.” E-Flux, no. Spatial Computing (June 2024). Publications, Articles Cities, History, Housing, Mapping, Politics, Public Scholarship, Radical Pedagogy, Science and Technology, Social Movements, Urban Studies
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. 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
McElroy, Erin. “Techno-Imperialism.” In In Decoloniality in Eastern Europe: A Lexicon of Reorientation, edited by Ana Vilenica, 132–39. Novi Sad: Kuda, 2023. Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Critical Theory, Global, Justice, Neoliberalism, Public Scholarship, Radical Pedagogy, Science and Technology, Social Movements, Transnational
McElroy, Erin. "Dis/possessory Data Politics: From Tenant Screening to Anti-Eviction Organizing.” International Journal of Urban and Region Research, 47, no. 1 (2023): 54–70. Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Big Data, Community, Geographic Information Systems, Geovisualization, Housing, Justice, Mapping, Research Methods, Science and Technology, Social Movements
Rivera I. (2023) Undoing settler imaginaries:(Re) imagining digital knowledge politics. Progress in Human Geography. Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Critical Theory, Geovisualization, Indigenous, Justice, Science and Technology, Social Movements
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 Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Agriculture, Critical Human Geography, Critical Theory, Food, Health, Science and Technology
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
McElroy, Erin. “Digital Cartographies of Displacement: Data as Property and Property as Data.” ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies 21, no. 4 (May 5, 2022): 357–71. Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Big Data, Community, Geographic Information Systems, Geovisualization, Housing, Mapping, Research Methods, Science and Technology, Social Movements, Urban Studies
Y. Yu, D. Brady, B. Zhao (2022) Digital geographies of the bug: A case study of China's contact tracing systems in the COVID-19, Geoforum, 137(2022): 94-104, doi: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2022.10.007 Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Big Data, Geographic Information Systems, Mapping, Science and Technology, Urban Studies
Huang, X., Bao, X., Li, Z., Zhang, S., & Zhao, B. (2022). Black Businesses Matter: A Longitudinal Study of Black-Owned Restaurants in the COVID-19 Pandemic Using Geospatial Big Data. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 1-17. Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Big Data, Geographic Information Systems, Science and Technology
Yu, Y. & Zhao, B. (2022) Can TikTok promote a healthier ageing paradigm? A case study of older digital celebrities from China. Area, 00, 1– 8. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12777 Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Big Data, Geographic Information Systems, Geovisualization, Mapping, Population, Science and Technology
Bo Zhao, Shaozeng Zhang, Chunxue Xu, Yifan Sun & Chengbin Deng (2021) Deep fake geography? When geospatial data encounter Artificial Intelligence, Cartography and Geographic Information Science, DOI: 10.1080/15230406.2021.1910075 Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Big Data, Cities, Geographic Information Systems, Geovisualization, Science and Technology
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
 Zhang, S., Zhao, B., Tian, Y., & Chen, S. (2020). Stand with# StandingRock: Envisioning an Epistemological Shift in Understanding Geospatial Big Data in the “Post-truth” Era. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 1-21. Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Big Data, Environment, Geographic Information Systems, Geovisualization, Indigenous, Science and Technology
Cox, Christopher R. “In the Interior of Capital’s Exterminism.” Capitalism Nature Socialism 31, no. 2 (April 2, 2020): 129–32. https://doi.org/10.1080/10455752.2020.1732521.   Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters, Reviews Environment, Science and Technology, Sustainability
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, Erin. “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