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Apologies for cross-posting. Please contact session organizers directly. Call for Papers: 18th Annual Critical Geography Conference: Constructing a radical politics in an age of crisis Clark University, Worcester, MA, November 4-6 2011 Conference Website: http://www.criticalgeography.org/ Session: Mapping and Visualization Approaches for Radical Social Change Convenors: Katherine Foo (Clark University) and Emily Gallagher (Clark University) Discussant: Dianne Rocheleau (Clark University) As researchers and practitioners are expanding their participatory toolboxes to ‘map for (social) change,’ the act of map-making itself is evolving to include diverse practices and epistemologies. Participatory mapping, landscape visualization, and scenario-building have gained importance for their abilities to foster analytical, experiential, and aesthetic links between present conditions and alternative futures. This session explores the cognitive, technical, and bureaucratic dimensions that visualization approaches may assume for research, development, and land planning. Cognitive components investigate the translation of individual perceptions, emotions, and behavior into a visualization aids (maps, pictures and sketches, or digital images); technical components consist of the suite of high- and low-tech methods available for use; bureaucratic components speak to the legal and organizational steps that enable or constrain control over a given planning project. For this panel, we seek papers that engage with the following questions: How can social change agents employ visualization techniques that effectively work with multiple voices? How can such critical mapping and visualization approaches translate cognitive constructs and communicate hypothetical spaces to a diverse audience? Topics may include, but are not limited to: - Critical GIS; Public Participation GIS (PPGIS) - Landscape and urban planning; Landscape Architecture; City and regional planning - Community planning; Civic participation; Participatory Land Use Planning (PLUP) - Media and communication studies - Spatial knowledge; spatial identity - Visualization approaches in the communication of social issues and/or place-making - Social mapping; Cognitive mapping; Counter mapping; Gendered resource mapping - Performance-based place-making - Tools and techniques:Sketch mapping, Visualization software, Open-source internet and GIS mapping, 3D-Modeling, Gaming Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be submitted to Katherine Foo ([log in to unmask]) and/or Emily Gallagher ([log in to unmask]) before September 15, 2011.