About this Event
Another Story Bookshop and Between the Lines are pleased to present the launch of in Toronto.
Join us at the store from 6:30 to 8:30 pm for a conversation between Chris Hurl, Eric Mykhalovcskiy, Kevin Walby and Lesley Wood.
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ABOUT THE BOOK
Knowledge is power and the information behind it must be liberated. Today, more than ever, data has become an important stake in social struggles and the tightening of control over it has not gone without resistance. Social activists around the world are engaging with data in novel ways, whether through investigating tax havens, tracking police misconduct, confronting employers with evidence of wage theft, mapping evictions across the cityscape, or charting the dispossession of Indigenous Peoples of their lands. Social movement groups, labour unions, and community organizations are developing and applying new kinds of technology and programming skills to collect and analyze data in ways that go beyond traditional information access. Drawing on interviews with more than fifty data activists around the world, provides the inspiration that activists need for social justice struggles today.
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Chris Hurl is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University. His research examines the politics of knowledge production in public sector restructuring. He is the coauthor of The Consulting Trap and coeditor of Professional Service Firms and Politics in a Global Era and Corporatizing Canada.
Kevin Walby is a professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Winnipeg. He is coauthor of Police Funding, Dark Money, and the Greedy Institution. He is coeditor of Disarm, Defund, Dismantle and Changing of the Guards. He is the director of the Centre for Access to Information and Justice (CAIJ) and coeditor of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons.
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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Lesley Wood is interested in how ideas travel, how power operates, how institutions change, how conversations influence practices, how people resist and how conflict starts, transforms and ends. She sees social research as one means in the struggle for a better world. Thus, she studies social movements, contentious politics and the institutions and systems that influence them.
Eric Mykhalovskiy is a Professor of Sociology at York University in Toronto. His research is principally informed by Studies in the Social Organization of Knowledge and engages critically with public health issues. Recent preoccupations are the public health implications of HIV non-disclosure, the concept of the “unwilling or unable” in public health guidance, and urban residential noise. Eric is an associate editor of the Canadian Journal of Public Health and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Critical Public Health. He is a past member of the board of directors of the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network and the steering committee of AIDS ACTION NOW! Eric edits the Institutional Ethnography Book Series published by the University of Toronto Press.
Event venue & nearby stays
Another Story Bookshop, 315 Roncesvalles Avenue, Toronto, Canada
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