Publications

Author/Title Research Type Related Fields
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. Publications, Articles Cities, Critical Human Geography, Critical Theory, Economics, Global, Ideology, Neoliberalism, Politics, Transnational, Urban Studies
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. 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).“Homes not shelters”: co-productions of home in financialized social housing for women in Vancouver, Canada. DOI: 10.1080/02723638.2021.2014668. Publications Class, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Housing, 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
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
Chen, X., Zhao, B., & Yang, X. (2022). The obesogenity of restaurant food: Mapping the nutritional foodscape of Franklin County, Ohio using food review images. Applied Geography, 144, 102717. Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Big Data, Food, Geographic Information Systems, Geovisualization, Health, Mapping, Urban Studies
Zhao, B. 2022. Humanistic GIS: Towards a Research Agenda. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. doi: 10.1080/24694452.2021.2004875 Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Big Data, Cities, Critical Theory, Environment, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Geographic Information Systems, Geovisualization, Justice, Queer Studies, 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
McElroy, Erin. “Speculating Upon San Francisco’s Futurity: From Shell Company Evictions to Decolonial Action.” In Housing Displacement: Conceptual and Methodological Issues, edited by Guy Baeten, Carina Listerborn, Maria Persdotter, and Emil Pull, 97–112. Routledge, 2020. Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Global, Housing, Justice, Neoliberalism, Politics, Social Movements, Urban Studies
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
Sun, Y., Ma, A., Su, H., Su, S., Chen, F., Wang, W., Weng, M., 2020. Does the establishment of development zones really improve industrial land use efficiency? Implications for China’s high-quality development policy. Land Use Policy, 104265. Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Cities, Geographic Information Systems, Sustainability, Urban Studies
McElroy, Erin. “Housing, Cartographic, and Data Justice as Fields of Inquiry: A Connected Approach to Mapping Displacement.” In Housing Justice in Unequal Cities, edited by Ananya Roy and Hillary Malson, 29–36. Los Angeles, CA: Institute on Inequality and Democracy, 2019. Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Cities, Community, Critical Theory, Housing, Justice, Public Scholarship, Radical Pedagogy, Research Methods, Social Movements, 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, 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
McElroy, Erin. “Digital Nomads in Siliconising Cluj: Material and Allegorical Dispossessions.” Urban Studies, 57(15): 3078–3094. Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Cities, Global, Housing, Mapping, Science and Technology, Transnational, Urban Studies