McElroy Authors New Book on Technocapitalism in the San Francisco Bay Area and Romania
Posted: 4/1/2024 (CSDE Research)
CSDE Affiliate Erin McElroy (Geography) published a new book, entitled Silicon Valley Imperialism. Erin McElroy maps the processes of gentrification, racial dispossession, and economic predation that drove the development of Silicon Valley in the San Francisco Bay Area and how that logic has become manifest in postsocialist Romania. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and archival research in Romania and the United States, McElroy exposes the mechanisms through which the appeal of Silicon Valley technocapitalism devours space and societies, displaces residents, and generates extreme income inequality in order to expand its reach.