American Association of Geographers – Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, USA – March 23-27, 2023
Call for Papers: Visualizing Qualitative Geographies: Emerging Practices
Co-organized by Shamayeta Bhattacharya (Point Park University) [log in to unmask] and Meghan Cope (University of Vermont) [log in to unmask]
With the rise of creative and artistic methods (Von Benzon et al., 2021), digital geographies (Ash et al., 2018a, 2018b), critical visual methods (Giubilaro, 2020), and new twists on old techniques, including those born out of COVID conditions (Bliss & Bloomberg CityLab Project, 2022), geographers are exploring new ways to visualize qualitative and mixed-methods data. Qualitative and mixed-method data visualization provides a rich representation of lived experiences of individuals or groups to their socio-spatial environment beyond traditional quantitative GIS (Mennis et al., 2013). Visualization can take many forms, from simple sketch maps with paper and pencil to digital representations of complex social-spatial processes and experiences. Geographers have engaged in visualizing as an exploratory method to better understand phenomena, as an analytical approach to connect to key theoretical concepts, and in a wide array of presentational forms to produce and share knowledge. Simultaneously, scholars have adopted new forms and modes of sharing results through graphic novels/comics, narrative mapping, public exhibits, social media, and web-based forums, which have generated fresh connections across disciplines and audiences.
This session welcomes presentations involving all forms of ‘qualitative visualization’ in its broadest sense, including critiques of visualization itself. In keeping with the 2023 conference theme, Toward More Just Geographies, we particularly welcome work engaged in efforts of abolition, decolonization, the dismantling of systems of oppression, and fostering the liberation of all people. We particularly encourage graduate students and early career scholars to join this session.
We welcome ‘alternative’ formats of presentation – please indicate details in your message to us. Depending on interest, we may split into multiple consecutive sessions and invite discussants to lead constructive conversations in each.
Please send one or both of the organizers an expression of interest and your abstract (250 words max.) by Mon. Oct. 31st – we will send notices of acceptance by Wed., Nov. 2, well before the final AAG deadline. Co-organized by Shamayeta Bhattacharya (Point Park University) [log in to unmask] and Meghan Cope (University of Vermont) [log in to unmask]
References
Ash, J., Kitchin, R., & Leszczynski, A. (Eds.). (2018a). Digital geographies. SAGE Publications Ltd.
Ash, J., Kitchin, R., & Leszczynski, A. (2018b). Digital turn, digital geographies? Progress in Human Geography, 42(1), 25–43. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132516664800
Bliss, L., & Bloomberg CityLab Project. (2022). The quarantine atlas mapping global life under COVID-19. Running Press. https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Quarantine_Atlas.html?id=4C87EAAAQBAJ
Giubilaro, C. (2020). Regarding the shipwreck of others: for a critical visual topography of Mediterranean migration. Cultural Geographies, 27(3), 351–366. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474019884928
Mennis, J., Mason, M. J., & Cao, Y. (2013). Qualitative GIS and the Visualization of Narrative Activity Space Data. International Journal of Geographical Information Science : IJGIS, 27(2), 267. https://doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2012.678362
Von Benzon, N., Holton, M., Wilkinson, C., & Wilkinson, S. (Eds.). (2021). Creative Methods for Human Geographers. SAGE Publications.
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