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
Monnier-Reyna, M. (2024). Researching from Home, Inside, and the Online: Methodological Lessons from the Pandemic. The Professional Geographer, 76(4), 467–475. https://doi.org/10.1080/00330124.2023.2295343 Publications, Articles Feminism and Feminist Theory, Research Methods, Social Movements
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
Lawson, V., Elwood, S., Daigle, M., González Mendoza, Y., Gutiérrez Garza, A., Herrera, J., Kohl, E., Lewis, J., McCutcheon, P., Ramírez, M. Reddy, C.  2023. Abolishing Poverty: Towards Pluriverse Futures and Politics. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press. Publications, Books Justice, Poverty, Social Movements
Ybarra, Megan. 2023. "Indigenous to Where? Homelands and nation (pueblo) in Indigenous Latinx studies."  Latino Studies 21:22-41. Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Immigration, Indigenous, Migration
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
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
“Making Abolition in Geography” Online Forum, Chavez-Norgaard, S, L Montagne, JE Sayers and M Ybarra* (Guest Editors), Society & Space Magazine. https://www.societyandspace.org/forums/making-abolition-in-geography, published October 31, 2022. Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Public Scholarship
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
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
Zhang S, Xu D, Zhao B. “Small” analysis of Big Data: An evaluation of the effects of social distancing in the United States. Methodological Innovations. April 2022. doi:10.1177/20597991221090856 Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Big Data, Census, Critical Theory, Culture, Disease, Geographic Information Systems, Mapping
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