{"id":1059,"date":"2026-10-09T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie\/?p=1059"},"modified":"2026-10-09T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T08:00:00","slug":"new-book-fictions-frictions-evictions-housing-data-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie\/?p=1059","title":{"rendered":"New Book: Fictions, Frictions &#038; Evictions: Housing Data Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"e0slcl e0sam3 e0siiy e0slg3\" tabindex=\"-1\" data-testid=\"expandable-text-box\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1060 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/FFE-cover.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/FFE-cover.png 408w, https:\/\/datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/FFE-cover-186x300.png 186w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/>New OA book: <em>Fictions, Frictions &amp; Evictions: Housing Data Stories <\/em>by Rob Kitchin<em>. <\/em>Available for download at: <a href=\"https:\/\/mural.maynoothuniversity.ie\/id\/eprint\/21952\/\">https:\/\/mural.maynoothuniversity.ie\/id\/eprint\/21952\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"e0slcl e0sam3 e0siiy e0slg3\" tabindex=\"-1\" data-testid=\"expandable-text-box\">The book is a collection of 208 drabbles \u2013 stories of exactly 100 words \u2013 that shine a spotlight on the data politics of housing, property and planning data. Written over a four year period \u2013 one per week \u2013 the drabbles are inspired by conversations and observations while undertaking empirical research on the Data Stories project. Collectively, they reveal the ways in which the housing, property and planning evidence base in Ireland is less than ideal and point to what needs to be done to address the shortcomings. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"e0slcl e0sam3 e0siiy e0slg3\" tabindex=\"-1\" data-testid=\"expandable-text-box\">The book is a creative contribution to the <em>Fictions, Frictions &amp; Evictions<\/em> exhibition starting next week in Dublin \u2013 details at <a href=\"https:\/\/fictions-frictions-evictions.ie\/\">https:\/\/fictions-frictions-evictions.ie\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New OA book: Fictions, Frictions &amp; Evictions: Housing Data Stories by Rob Kitchin. Available for download at: https:\/\/mural.maynoothuniversity.ie\/id\/eprint\/21952\/ The book is a collection of 208 drabbles \u2013 stories of exactly 100 words \u2013 that shine a spotlight on the data politics of housing, property and planning data. Written over a four year period \u2013 one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie\/?p=1059\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Book: Fictions, Frictions &#038; Evictions: Housing Data Stories<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1061,"href":"https:\/\/datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions\/1061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}