Data Justice and the Right to the City / / edited by Morgan Currie, Jeremy Knox, Callum McGregor.

• Superior document: Studies in global justice and human rights
• TeilnehmendeR: Currie, Morgan,; Knox, Jeremy,; McGregor, Callum,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press,, 2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in global justice and human rights.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 pages).

Explores of social justice, citizenship, and community in the context of data-driven urbanismInvestigates critical issues of social justice, citizenship and community in the context of the powerful economic rationales of data-driven urban developmentMakes a theoretical contribution towards framing social justice from the perspective of the datafied cityDocuments new case studies and exposes new avenues for research across social justice, critical data studies, education and politicsData Justice and the Right to the City engages with theories of social justice and data-driven urbanism. It explores the intersecting concerns of data justice - both the harms and civic possibilities of the datafied society - and the right to the city - a call to redress the uneven distribution of resources and rights in urban contexts. These concerns are addressed through a variety of topics: digital social services, as cities use data and algorithms to administer to citizens; education, as data-driven practices transform learning and higher education; labour, as platforms create new precarities and risks for workers; and activists who seek to make creative and political interventions into these developments. This edited collection proposes frameworks for understanding the effects of data-driven technologies at the municipal scale and offers strategies for intervention by both scholars and citizens.

Table of Contents

Foreword / Lina Dencik -- Data Justice and the Right to the City : An Introduction / Morgan Currie, Jeremy Knox and Callum McGregor -- Part I Algorithmic Government -- 1. Predictive policing: transforming the city into a medium for control / Fieke Jansen -- 2. 'Hostile Data', Migration and the City : Enacting and Resisting Spaces of Hostility in the UK / Philippa Metcalfe -- 3. Datafied Child Welfare Services as Sites of Struggle / Joanna Redden, Jessica Brand, Ina Sander and Harry Warne -- 4. Seven Stories from AlgorithmWatch -- Part II Education -- 5. The civic university as key agent in the production of urban space / Nicolas Zehner -- 6. Rescuing Data Literacy from Dataism / Huw C. Davies -- 7. Smart Citizen Apprentices : Digital Urbanism and Coding as Techno-Solutions to the City / Ben Williamson -- Part III Gig, platform, and crowd labour -- 8. Cadies, Clocks, and the Data-Driven Capital : Incorporating Gig Workers in Edinburgh / Cailean Gallagher -- 9. The Students Are Already (Gig) Workers / Karen Gregory -- 10. Data (in)justice, protest and the (re)making of space among fragmented platform workers / Alex J. Wood and Vili Lehdonvirta -- Part IV Art and Activism in the Datafied City -- 11. The Street, the Square, and the Net: How Urban Activists Make and Use Networked Technologies / Jessica Feldman -- 12. Facial Recognition and The Right to Appear : Infrastructural Challenges in Anti-Surveillance Resistance / Benedetta Catanzariti -- 13. Data Burdens : Epistemologies of Evidence in Police Reform and Abolition Movements / Britt Paris, Morgan Currie, Irene Pasquetto and Jennifer Pierre -- 14. Data Resistance Through Public Art : Reclaiming Narratives In/Of the City / Pip Thornton -- Postscript -- Doing Data Dialectically : Between Alienation and Democratic Urban Renewal / Callum McGregor.