Counterpoints combines work from the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project with contributions from dozens of local artists, organizers, scholar-activists, and residents--from longtime community members who have been fighting multiple waves of racial dispossession to elementary school youth envisioning decolonial futures. As an atlas co-created in this way with community, Counterpoints expands knowledge on displacement and resistance in the Bay Area with, rather than for or about, those most impacted.
Counterpoints is organized around seven thematic chapters: (1) Evictions and Root Shock; (2) Indigenous Geographies of Resistance; (3) Health and Environmental Justice; (4) Gentrification and State Violence; (5) Transportation, Infrastructure, and Economy; (6) Migrations/Relocations; and (7) Speculation and Speculative Futures.
These chapters provide a more regional, historically grounded, and multiply situated perspective for understanding the complexities of living in and fighting for space in the Bay Area than ever available before. From settler colonialism to the Tech Boom 2.0, Counterpoints gives readers the data, stories, analyses, and inspiration needed to fight for urban justice in the contemporary world.
With over 225 illustrations, photographs, and data visualizations; and 120,000 words of essays, poetry, oral histories, and more, Counterpoints is full of data to get organized, stories to be inspired, and essays and artwork to imagine a more just future.
As a lean volunteer collective, all of the the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project's proceeds from this book will be used to support more of our radical housing justice work, from our COVID-19 Housing Protections Map to our ongoing oral history work. Pledges made from the U.S. will be tax deductible, minus the cost of your reward. Thank you for your support!
