In 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 techno-capitalism devours space and societies, displaces residents, and reproduces imperial materialities and imaginaries in order to expand its reach. Silicon Valley Imperialism brings an urgently needed, intersectional perspective to the tech industry's impact on the worlds in which we inhabit, including in the technofascist present. McElroy invites readers to confront difficult questions about the alignment of liberal and fascist ideologies in today's anti-communist climate, offering an original examination of how techno-imperial expansion operates. At the same time, McElroy accounts for the ways that organizers and artists resist Silicon Valley capitalist logics to establish more just social formations—helping materialize the unbecoming of Silicon Valley. 

Counterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement and Resistance, edited by the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project and published by PM Press, brings together cartography, essays, illustrations, poetry, and more in order to depict gentrification and resistance struggles from across the San Francisco Bay Area and act as a roadmap to counter-hegemonic knowledge making and activism. Each chapter reflects different frameworks for understanding the Bay Area’s ongoing urban upheaval, including evictions, indigenous geographies, health and environmental racism, state violence, transportation and infrastructure, migration and relocation, and speculative futures. By weaving these themes together, Counterpoints expands normative urban-studies framings of gentrification to consider more complex, regional, historically grounded, and entangled horizons for understanding the present.