Mapping for Justice
Lecture Theatre, 17 Young Street, London, W8 5EH
Tuesday, 2 June 2015 from 18:00 to 20:00 (BST)
free registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mapping-for-justice-tickets-17032561851
From drone strikes to racist attacks, from precarious labour to gentrification, how do maps help us understand injustice and illuminate struggle?
In this public showcase and discussion we explore how mapmakers engage our geographical imaginations and use the power of maps for social change. From oral history to twitter data-mining, our featured mapmakers use a variety of techniques to make injustice visible. Whether made with paper and pen or on open source platforms, maps can give way to new tactics and strategies for intervention.
Featured maps will be presented by:
Anna Feigenbaum / Civic Media Hub (Bournemouth University)
Mapping Tear Gas http://teargasresearch.com/
Jack Serle / Bureau of Investigative Journalism
Covert Drone War http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/category/projects/drones/
Jaya Klara Brekke / The City at a Time of Crisis (ESRC project, now at Durham University)
Mapping racist violence in Athens http://map.crisis-scape.net/
Nate Eisenstadt / Know Your Bristol (AHRC project, Bristol University)
Map Your Bristol http://www.mapyourbristol.org.uk/
Steve McFarland / The Commons labor/precarity group (now at University of Tampa)
Adjunct Map https://adjunctmap.wordpress.com/
Albane Duvillier / Architectural Association
London's Housing Struggles https://mappinglondonshousingstruggles.wordpress.com/
Mara Ferreri / Southwark Notes Archives Group (now at Durham university)
Heygate Displacement
B.A.G.A.G.E. / Reclaim Brixton
Print map available at venue!
This event is organised by Bournemouth University’s Civic Media Hub and The Tear Gas Research Connection, with Sue Pell & Paul Rekret at Richmond, The American International University in London http://www.civicmedia.io/
Dr. Anna Feigenbaum
Senior Lecturer in Media
Programme Leader, BA (Hons) Politics and Media
The Media School, Weymouth House
Bournemouth University, Talbot Campus
Poole, Dorset BH12 5BB
United Kingdom
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Topics of the day:
1. RGS Postgrad Careers Event for Development
2. more on the UK election
3. Development
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Date: Sun, 24 May 2015 10:37:47 +0000
From: Jessica Hope <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: RGS Postgrad Careers Event for Development
**Some places still left**
RGS Developing Areas Research Group (DARG) One-Day Early Careers Workshop, June 5th 2015
Navigating a Career in Academia: Survival Tips for Development Geographers
Please find attached a poster for the upcoming one-day workshop, on June 5th 2015 at the University of Manchester, packed with panels to help you negotiate your early careers. We have panels on:
* Publishing from you PhD
* Teaching Fellowships, Research Assistant posts & Consultancy Work
* Writing a good Post-doc application
* Focusing your CV
* Development Careers Panel
Speakers in include: Professor Nina Laurie, Professor Dan Brockington, Professor Diana Mitlin & Dr Sophie King
Only £15 including lunch. Book now to avoid disappointment - our last event was a sell out!
You can book tickets through Eventbrite, by clicking the Book Here button on the poster OR follow the link below:
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Date: Sun, 24 May 2015 14:12:45 +0000
From: "Royle, Camilla" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: more on the UK election
The Guardian figures for the UKIP vote seem to confirm the "white face, blue collar, grey hair" formulation of Ford and Goodwin who have studied the rise of UKIP in some detail: www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/05/left-behind-voters-only-ukip-understands<http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/05/left-behind-voters-only-ukip-understands>
[http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/3/5/1394045475807/kenyon-ukip-006.jpg]<http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/05/left-behind-voters-only-ukip-understands>
White face, blue collar, grey hair: the 'left behind' voters only Ukip understands | Matthew Goodwin and Robert Ford | Comment is free | The Guardian
Matthew Goodwin and Robert Ford: Farage's core voters are not EU-obsessed Tories, but working-class men. Labour cannot afford to ignore their real concerns
Read more...<http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/05/left-behind-voters-only-ukip-understands>
But if they are attracting older working class voters it does not follow that UKIP take more votes from Lab than Conservatives. There have always been some Conservative supporters even among the working class, some of whose votes will be taken by UKIP. I don't mean to imply that working class people are being pulled to the right en masse. Far from it, people in Islington, Tottenham and Hackney returned left-leaning Labour candidates with big majorities. Just that there are some working class Tories, some of whom are now UKIP supporters.
UKIP also seem to have swallowed the BNP (and anecdotally far right and fascist groups have been "protecting" UKIP conferences and putting leaflets with swastikas through the doors of anti-UKIP campaigners).
Camilla Royle<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/departments/geography/people/phdstudents/epd/RoyleCamilla.aspx>
PhD Candidate
Department of Geography
King's College London, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS
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From: A forum for critical and radical geographers <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Hillary Shaw <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 23 May 2015 19:05
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Subject: Re: more on the UK election
Some reported figures re the UKIP vote.
Guardian, 23 May, pp.16/17. (exit poll) UKIP vote, 18-14 yr old, 6%; age 65+, 17%. Class AB, 7%, class DE, 16% (approx measured from bar chart)
From The Times, pp.18/19, 9 May. 18- 29 yr old, 9% male, 7% female; age 60+, 18% male, 14% female.
Overall UKIP vote, 7.9% - retired voters 16%, unemployed 13%,
Income, under £20,000, UKIP = 14%; income £70,000 and over, UKIP = 9%.
Therefore it looks like UKIP support rtises with age and falls with income / higher social class.
Figures are less clear regarding UKIP support and housing tenure, but then tenure such a sprivate renting vs ownership is less claerly related to class, e.g. higher income may often rent, especially privately, too.
Dr Hillary J. Shaw
www.fooddeserts.org
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From: Gordon,IR <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sat, 23 May 2015 17:42
Subject: RE: more on the UK election
The subtleties of political dynamics are starting to elude me (and I confess to retiring to bed once the terminal diagnosis of the exit poll proved not a complete aberration).
But can Hillary please explain how we can possibly infer that:
‘UKIP eroded Lab Support more than it did Con support’,
in the face of all the polling evidence to the contrary, e.g. in the Ashcroft tabulations to which Ron Johnston helpfully pointed/sent us, a fortnight ago.
Among 1672 respondents willing to say that they voted for UKIP, these tabs show 37% as recalling they voted Conservative in 2010, against 12% recalling a Labour vote then. In terms of net shifts, by my arithmetic , 43% of UKIP’s advance (among the Ashcroft respondents) was at the expense of the Tories, 13% from Labour, 20% from the LibDems – with the balance coming from people who do not report having voted then.
Doubtless there are more refined ways of doing this arithmetic and allowing for response biases – plus questions about variations across types of seat. But it will not do to simply assert that erosion of ex-Labour voters was the main element in UKIP’s advance – or (though this is a more complex question) key to Labour’s failure – on what (to be kind about it) is the most fragile of ‘evidence’.
Ian Gordon
Geography and Environment Department,
London School of Economics
Houghton Street
London
WC2A 2AE
Tel: +44 (0)20 7107 5384
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From: A forum for critical and radical geographers [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Hillary Shaw
Sent: 23 May 2015 16:29
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Subject: more on the UK election
Today's Guardian, pp.16-17, has some socio-econ analysis of the swings in the 2015 UK election. Younger voters (age 18-24) who were already oredisposed to Labour swung 7.5% to Labour; older voters, already predisposed to Conservative, swung 5.5% to Con. Likewise AB classes swung 3% to Con, DE swung 2.5% to Lab. turnout was significant,higher amongst ABs and older voters.
Two factors here. 1) There was a polarisation - I stayed up till 6am, and this was evident in the seat by seat result - Lab seatsoften saw a swing to Lab, Con ones to Con. We can probably include Scots voters 'polarising' in the massive swing to SNP there.
2) The UKIP factor. UKIP support is strongest amongst the DEs and older voters (yesterday I listened to a racist rant by a pensioner who was upset that her local Oxfam in Wrexham was closing, and believed it would become a 'Polish shop', and there are 'far too many Poles already here' and.....well you get the picture, I was browsing the books in this Oxfam at that point). So the Cons gained more from this polarisation than Lab did. In other words UKIP eroded Lab support more than it did Con support, allowoing the Cons to gain more seats this way.
Sadly it seems someone has allowed the less affluent working classes of the UK to feel threatened enough to vote for a party like UKIP. This is probably an economic effect, not I am sure any intrinsic racusm amongst the DEs; I suspect we can blame increasing UK inequality, with stagnant wages at the bottom as the top 1% enjoy both rising salaries and rising property prices on what they own, whilst the poorest are condemned by both rising rents and a property bubble to perpetual renting, and paying into someone elses pension pot whilst being denied the chance to build their own.
A lesson here - don't allow extreme socio-economic inequality - it may lead to political extremes too. It has done in the past, and will do so again, if allowed.
Dr Hillary J. Shaw
Director and Senior Research Consultant
Shaw Food Solutions
Newport
Shropshire
TF10 8NB
www.fooddeserts.org
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Date: Sun, 24 May 2015 13:53:04 -0400
From: Nicholas James <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Development
There's an embargo on this journal but it's possible someone may have a spare copy, please?
'Rethinking Social Development for a Post-2015 World'.
Cook, Sarah
Development , 2014, Vol.57(1), p.30
Nick
Nicholas James
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