Anti-Eviction Mapping Project

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ID4157093
AuthorsJamie M Harris (University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume108
Issue4
Pages890-892
Publication date2022-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of American History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/jahist/jaac113
OpenAlexW4210285442
LanguageEN
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The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project (Aemp) describes itself as “a data-visualization, critical cartography, and multimedia storytelling collective documenting dispossession and resistance upon gentrifying landscapes.” The Aemp was created in San Francisco in 2013 in response to gentrification and displacement caused by Bay Area's “Tech Boom 2.0.” The project currently has three chapters—the original chapter based in San Francisco and ones in Los Angeles and New York City. The Aemp is made up of a dedicated cadre of volunteers that includes activist scholars, artists, organizers, students, tech workers, and local residents. Aemp projects often include a collaborating housing justice organization, and one page on the archive site lists over fifty partners. As an organization, the Aemp is horizontally structured and decisions are made by consensus. The Aemp is an immense and innovative digital archive collective that has created over one hundred different maps, many embedded with personal narratives and other

Archaeology · Art · Boom · Civil engineering · Eviction · Gentrification · Library science · Media studies · Metropolitan area · Narrative · Political science · Sociology · Visual arts · Computer Science · Engineering · History · Law

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