Data Justice and the Right to the City

Morgan Currie is Senior Lecturer in Data and Society at the University of Edinburgh. Her research and teaching interests focus on open and administrative data, algorithms in the welfare state, activists’ data practices, cultural mapping and critical GIS. She is principal investigator of The Culture & Communities Mapping Project and co-leads the Digital Social Science Research Cluster at Centre for Data, Culture & Society. Jeremy Knox is co-director of the Centre for Research in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh, where he leads a research theme on the 'Data Society'. His research interests include the relationships between education, data-driven technologies, and wider society. Jeremy's published work includes critical perspectives on artificial intelligence (AI), learning analytics, data, and algorithms, as well as Open Educational Resources (OER) and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). He is associate editor of Postdigital Science and Education, and co-convenes the Society for Research in Higher Education (SRHE) Digital University network. Callum McGregor is a Lecturer in Education at the Institute for Education, Community and Society, University of Edinburgh. He teaches on the MSc Social Justice and Community Action and the MA Learning in Communities. Callum is also an affiliate of the Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI). Callum’s research interests are inter-disciplinary and address the relationship between democratic citizenship, education and the politics of policy. Within this broad context, he has published recently on topics as broad as education for climate justice, learning for democracy in the context of populism and radical digital citizenship.

Global in scope, nimbly written, and drawing together the insights of organizers, NGOs, and scholars, Data Justice and the Right to the City is a must-read for those interested in re-politicizing data and recommitting to equitable and joyous urban life.

• Foreword - Lina DencikData Justice and the Right to the City: An Introduction - Morgan Currie, Jeremy Knox and Callum McGregorPart I Algorithmic Government1. Predictive policing: transforming the city into a medium for control - Fieke Jansen2. ‘Hostile Data’, Migration and the City: Enacting and Resisting Spaces of Hostility in the UK - Philippa Metcalfe3. Datafied Child Welfare Services as Sites of Struggle - Joanna Redden, Jessica Brand, Ina Sander and Harry Warne4. Seven Stories from AlgorithmWatchPart II Education5. The civic university as key agent in the production of urban space - Nicolas Zehner6. Rescuing Data Literacy from Dataism - Huw C. Davies7. Smart Citizen Apprentices: Digital Urbanism and Coding as Techno-Solutions to the City - Ben WilliamsonPart III Gig, platform, and crowd labour8. Cadies, Clocks, and the Data-Driven Capital: Incorporating Gig Workers in Edinburgh - Cailean Gallagher9. The Students Are Already (Gig) Workers - Karen Gregory10. Data (in)justice, protest and the (re)making of space among fragmented platform workers - Alex J. Wood and Vili LehdonvirtaPart IV Art and Activism in the Datafied City11. The Street, the Square, and the Net: How Urban Activists Make and Use Networked Technologies - Jessica Feldman12. Facial Recognition and The Right to Appear: Infrastructural Challenges in Anti-Surveillance Resistance - Benedetta Catanzariti13. Data Burdens: Epistemologies of Evidence in Police Reform and Abolition Movements - Britt Paris, Morgan Currie, Irene Pasquetto and Jennifer Pierre14. Data Resistance Through Public Art: Reclaiming Narratives In/Of the City - Pip ThorntonPostscriptDoing Data Dialectically: Between Alienation and Democratic Urban Renewal