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[Commlist] new book: Digital Lives in the Global City: Contesting Infrastructures

Wed Dec 02 18:13:10 GMT 2020


New publication from UBC Press, which we hope will be of interest.

*Digital Lives in the Global City***

Contesting Infrastructures

*Edited by Deborah Cowen, Alexis Mitchell, Emily Paradis & Brett Story***

*_https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9780774862387/digital-lives-in-the-global-city/ <https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9780774862387/digital-lives-in-the-global-city/>_*

*Receive a 20% discount online:*

*CSLF2020*

Digital technologies have transformed how, where, and when we communicate, love, learn, produce, and consume. /Digital Lives in the Global City/examines the entanglements of urban life as digital infrastructures connect us across vast distances while also merging work with personal time and space, increasing the power of financial institutions, and enhancing state and corporate surveillance capacities. This nuanced exploration engages with a wide range of issues: the conditions of migrant work in Singapore, the question of digital debt in Toronto, the rise and fall of illegal buildings in Mumbai, and targeted policing in New York. In the process, it reveals the profound connections between digital technologies and the social life of global cities.*__*

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*Deborah Cowen* is a professor in the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto. She is the author of /The Deadly Life of Logistics: Mapping Violence in Global Trade/and /Military Workfare: The Soldier and Social Citizenship in Canada/, and coeditor with Emily Gilbert of /War, Citizenship, Territory./

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*Alexis Mitchell* is an artist and scholar with a doctorate from the University of Toronto. She has had recent exhibitions at Mercer Union (Toronto), the Berlinale (Berlin), and the BFI London Film Festival, and was an artist-in-residence at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, in 2015–17 and at the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire in 2018. She often works collaboratively with artist Sharlene Bamboat under the name Bambitchell.

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*Emily Paradis* is an instructor with the Urban Studies Program of Innis College at University of Toronto, a Maytree fellow, a collaborator with the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness, a member of the Right to Housing Coalition, and an independent research consultant. Her scholarship and practice aim to support marginalized communities in claiming spaces and rights in the city. She has authored more than thirty publications on housing policy, homelessness, human rights, and lived expert leadership.

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*Brett Story* is an assistant professor in the School of Image Arts at Ryerson University, has a PhD in geography from the University of Toronto, and has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Sundance Documentary Institute. She is the author of /Prison Land: Mapping Carceral Power across Neoliberal America/ and the director of the award winning documentaries, /The Prison in Twelve Landscapes/, and /The Hottest August/.*__*



*UBC Press**| November 2020 | 288pp | 9780774862387 | PB | £25.99**

*Price subject to change.

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