Jeremy Knox

Morgan Currie

Callum McGregor

Data 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.

Data Justice and the Right to the City

Melisa Miranda Correa

This book describes three years of work by Culture and Communities Mapping Project, a research project based in Edinburgh that experiments with maps to capture the voices of inhabitants and their distinctive perspectives on the city. Taking a self-reflexive approach, the book draws on a variety of critical theoretical lenses, iterative mapping procedures and visual methodologies, from online virtual tours to photo elicitation. The book argues that practices of cultural mapping consist of a research field in and of itself, and it situates this work in relation to other areas of research and practice, including critical cartography, cultural geography, critical GIS, activist mapping and artist maps. The book also offers a range of practical approaches towards using print and web-based maps to give visibility to spaces traditionally left out of city representations but that are important to the local communities that use them. In this book, maps serve as an object of study and also a means to facilitate research. Throughout, the authors reflect on how, through the processes of mapping, we create knowledge about space, place, community and culture.

Morgan Currie

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