[Geo4All] A Map for Some: Unsettling the Foundations of GIS - RGS-IBG GIScience Webinar

[De Sabbata, Stefano (Dr.)]

Dear all,

I am most glad to invite you to our next webinar, “A Map for Some: Unsettling the Foundations of GIS”<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rgs-ibg-giscience-webinar-a-map-for-some-tickets-269750780847> by Dr Clancy Wilmott<https://clancywilmott.com/> on Tue, 22 March 2022 at 1pm (GMT). You can sign up to the event on Eventbrite, following the link below.

A Map for Some: Unsettling the Foundations of GIS<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rgs-ibg-giscience-webinar-a-map-for-some-tickets-269750780847>
Tue, 22 March 2022
13:00 – 14:00 GMT

About this event

Abstract:
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 Wood St Commons<https://www.woodstreetcommons.com/>; and the second, an urban Indigenous women-led organisation, the Sogorea Te' Land Trust<https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/>. 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?

Speaker:
Dr Clancy Wilmott (website<https://clancywilmott.com/>, Twitter<https://twitter.com/clancywilmott>)

Bio:
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.

All the best,
Stef.


“It’s all going to be alright in the end, and if it's not alright, it's not the end”
(by Ol Parker, via Wittertainment)

Dr Stefano De Sabbata (they/them)
Associate Professor of Geographical Information Science
School of Geography, Geology and the Environment,
University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
Research Associate at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
t: +44 (0)116 252 3812
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