Data Justice and the Right to the City

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. Contents -- Figures And Tables -- Notes On Editors And Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Data Justice And The Right To The City -- Part I Algorithmic Government -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Predictive Policing: Transforming The City Into A Medium For Control -- Chapter 2 ‘hostile Data’, Migration And The City: Enacting And Resisting Spaces Of Hostility In The Uk -- Chapter 3 Datafied Child Welfare Services As Sites Of Struggle -- Chapter 4 Seven Stories From Algorithmwatch -- Part Ii Education -- Introduction -- Chapter 5 The Civic University As Key Agent In The Production Of Urban Space -- Chapter 6 Rescuing Data Literacy From Dataism -- Chapter 7 Smart Citizen Apprentices: Digital Urbanism And Coding As Techno-solutions To The City -- Part Iii Gig, Platform And Crowd Labour -- Introduction -- Chapter 8 Cadies, Clocks And The Data-driven Capital: Incorporating Gig Workers In Edinburgh -- Chapter 9 The Students Are Already (gig) Workers -- Chapter 10 Data (in)justice, Protest And The (re)making Of Space Among Fragmented Platform Workers -- Part Iv Art And Activism In The Datafied City -- Introduction -- Chapter 11 The Street, The Square And The Net: How Urban Activists Make And Use Networked Technologies -- Chapter 12 Facial Recognition And The Right To Appear: Infrastructural Challenges In Anti-surveillance Resistance -- Chapter 13 Data Burdens: Epistemologies Of Evidence In Police Reform And Abolition Movements -- Chapter 14 Data Resistance Through Public Art: Reclaiming Narratives In/of The City -- Postscript: Doing Data Dialectically: Between Alienation And Democratic Urban Renewal -- Index Ed. By Morgan Currie. In English.