Living on the block: How equitable is tokenized equity?
"How equitable is tokenized equity – does it prioritize the right to the city for all or to all but a very few?"
Jillian Crandall, PhD student, has published a new article in Big Data & Society called, "Living on the block: How equitable is tokenized equity?." In the article, Jillian questions the utility and limits of datafication and explores how engaging with digital technology – with or without distributed ledgers – can raise awareness and enact alternative forms of housing and land stewardship, from cooperativism to Community Land Trusts and to counter-hegemonic commoning practices. Read the entire article here.
This paper addresses the question: how equitable is tokenized equity – does it prioritize the right to the city for all or to all but a very few? This paper looks toward the means of contestation against extractive crypto-settlements, speculation, and housing financialization, critically comparing a range of proposed distributed ledger technology projects that claim to inject equity in the system, pose alternative housing economies, or leverage distributed ledgers for land rights and data sovereignty. I question the utility and limits of datafication and explore how engaging with digital technology – with or without distributed ledgers – can raise awareness and enact alternative forms of housing and land stewardship, from cooperativism to Community Land Trusts and to counter-hegemonic commoning practices.
Congrats on your new work, Jillian!