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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I am most glad to invite you to our next webinar,
<a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rgs-ibg-giscience-webinar-a-map-for-some-tickets-269750780847">
“A Map for Some: Unsettling the Foundations of GIS”</a> by Dr <a href="https://clancywilmott.com/">
Clancy Wilmott</a> on Tue, 22 March 2022 at 1pm (GMT). You can sign up to the event on Eventbrite, following the link below.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rgs-ibg-giscience-webinar-a-map-for-some-tickets-269750780847">A Map for Some: Unsettling the Foundations of GIS</a></span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Tue, 22 March 2022<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">13:00 – 14:00 GMT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">About this event<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Abstract:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">As participatory, decolonising, and anti-racist mapping/GIS becomes more popular as a tool for articulating against hegemonic social, political and economic structures, the question is continually raised about
whether our maps - and our geographic information sciences + systems - are up to the task, given their colonial, capitalist and extractivist origins? Moving aside the hard affirmations of the utility of mapping and critiques of cartographic power, this discussion
instead wades into the space in-between, opening up a series of questions drawn from two participatory mapping/GIS projects in the San Francisco Bay Area, the first with an unhoused collective of folks called the <a href="https://www.woodstreetcommons.com/" target="_blank">Wood
St Commons</a>; and the second, an urban Indigenous women-led organisation, the <a href="https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/" target="_blank">Sogorea Te' Land Trust</a>. Each of these projects seeks to use the power of maps and GIS to fight back against dispossession,
marginalisation and institutionalisation. In doing so, these collaborations yield constant cartographic encounters with fundamentally different knowledge systems and values, and in realising their aims, they have both come to unsettle some of the foundational
principles of GIS, and cartography more broadly. And so, this talk asks: what do we do now - what is the value of crafting a geographical information system beyond accuracy, that embraces contingency rather than fixing it, that equalises the speculative and
the actual, that is readable only to a few - a map for some?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Speaker:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Dr Clancy Wilmott (<a href="https://clancywilmott.com/" target="_blank">website</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/clancywilmott" target="_blank">Twitter</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Bio:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Clancy Wilmott is Assistant Professor of Critical Cartography, Geovisualisation and Design in the Department of Geography and the Berkeley Centre for New Media at the University of California, Berkeley. She
is the author of Mobile Mapping: Space, Cartography and the Digital (AUP, 2020), and a member of the board of the GISCI, and yes, she actually does make maps.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">All the best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Stef.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">“It’s </span></i><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">all going to be alright in the end, and if it's not alright, it's not the
end</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">”</span><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">(by Ol Parker, via Wittertainment)</span><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Dr Stefano De Sabbata (they/them)</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Associate Professor of Geographical Information Science<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">School of Geography, Geology and the Environment,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Research Associate at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford</span><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#730F00;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#730F00;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">t: </span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">+44 (0)116 252 3812<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#730F00;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">e:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> <a href="mailto:s.desabbata@le.ac.uk" title="mailto:s.desabbata@le.ac.uk"><span style="color:#000051">s.desabbata@le.ac.uk</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#730F00;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">w: </span></b><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#00004D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="https://sdesabbata.github.io/" target="_blank" title="https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/stefano-de-sabbata/"><span style="color:#000051">sdesabbata.github.io</span></a></span></u><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#730F00;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#730F00;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">w: </span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/geography/people/stefano-de-sabbata" title="http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/geography/people/stefano-de-sabbata"><span style="color:#000051;background:white">le.ac.uk/departments/geography/people/stefano-de-sabbata</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#730F00;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">w: </span></b><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#00004D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/stefano-de-sabbata/" target="_blank" title="https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/stefano-de-sabbata/"><span style="color:#000051">oii.ox.ac.uk/people/stefano-de-sabbata</span></a></span></u><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#730F00;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#730F00;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">twitter: </span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="https://twitter.com/maps4thought" target="_blank"><span style="color:#000051">@maps4thought</span></a>
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