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

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/>_*

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*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.*__*

**

*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./

**

*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.

**

*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.

**

*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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