Data for Justice
Tensions and Lessons from the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project’s Work Between Academia and Activism
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.14288/acme.v19i1.1776Keywords:
Scholar-activism, Displacement, Housing justice, Feminist/decolonial epistemology, Mutual aid, RedistributionAbstract
What does it mean to do community engaged research as a scholar-activist? The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project (AEMP) is a project grounded in a critical orientation towards academic knowledge production. Instead of producing data for the academy, the scholars within AEMP see themselves as producing data for justice. The authors reflect on how, over the course of the project, AEMP has discovered the challenges of straddling the unequal terrain between academia and activism and offer three principles which have become key to AEMP’s own navigation of this academia-activism divide: mutual aid, accountability, and embeddedness.
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Dalton, Craig and Tim Stallmann. 2018. Counter-mapping data science. Canadian Geographer 62, 93-101.
Dozier, Deshonay. 2018. A Response to Abolitionist Planning: There’s No Room for ‘Planners’ in the Movement for Abolition. Progressive City. 9 August 2018. Accessed 30 September 2018 <https://www.progressivecity.net/single-post/2018/08/09/A-RESPONSE-TO-ABOLITIONIST-PLANNING-THERE-IS-NO-ROOM-FOR-‘PLANNERS’-IN-THE-MOVEMENT-FOR-ABOLITION>.
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Gieseking, Jen Jack. 2018. Operating anew: Queering GIS with good enough software. Canadian Geographer 62, 55-66.
Graziani, Terra, Erin McElroy, Mary Shi and Leah Simon-Weisberg. 2016. Counterpoints: Data and Stories for Resisting Displacement. Report published by the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project in San Francisco.
Haraway, Donna. 1988. Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective. Feminist Studies 14, 575-99.
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INCITE. 2007. The Revolution Will Not be Funded: Beyond the Nonprofit Industrial Complex. Cambridge, Mass: South End Press.
Kent, Andy, Chris Knudson, Rich Heyman, Jim Thatcher, Andrew Newson, Sara Safransky, Alex Hill, and Bob Colenutt. 2017. Symposium – The Detroit Geographical Expedition and Institute Then and Now: Commentaries on ‘Field Notes No.4: The Trumbull Community.’ AntipodeFoundation.org. Accessed 16 March 2019 <https://antipodefoundation.org/2017/02/23/dgei-field-notes/>.
Kwan, Mei-Po. 2002. Feminist Visualization: Re-Envisioning GIS as a Method in Feminist Geographic Research. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 92, 645-61.
Maharawal, Manissa M. and Erin McElroy. 2018. The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project: Counter Mapping and Oral History towards Bay Area Housing Justice. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 108, 380-9.
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Roy, Ananya, Stuart Schrader and Emma Shaw Crane. 2015. The Anti-Poverty Hoax: Development, Pacification, and the Making of Community in the Global 1960s. Cities 44, 139-45.
Ryan, Charlotte. 2004. Can We Be Compañeros? Social Problems 51, 110-3.
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Sweet, Paige. 2018. The Feminist Question in Realism. Sociological Theory 36, 221–43.
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2020-04-15
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Graziani, T., & Shi, M. (2020). Data for Justice: Tensions and Lessons from the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project’s Work Between Academia and Activism. ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies, 19(1), 397–412. https://doi.org/10.14288/acme.v19i1.1776
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