Call for Papers: Mapping, technologies and (in)securities
RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2012.
July 3-5 2012 Edinburgh
Session organizers: Chris Perkins (University of Manchester & International
Cartographic Association: Maps and Society Commission); Georg Glasze and
Cate Turk (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)
This session is broadly themed cartographies of (in)security. Particularly
as the geoweb opens up possibilities for collaborative and dynamic mappings,
we see a reiteration of the role of maps as tools for surveillance, able to
track the locations of individuals or events in realtime. Not only are
official authorities providing online maps, such as those showing
street-level statistics of crime, but individuals and online communities
mash-up all manner of maps reporting on crimes, crises, political conflicts
and more. The maps may draw on the crowd-sourced 'word on the street' as
well as aerial and satellite imagery, which has rapidly gained a widespread
use. All this may indeed lead to a deeper sense of cartographic anxiety!
In this session, we are therefore interested in research relating to new
techniques and related practices of web 2.0 cartography including crime
mapping and crisis mapping. Relevant papers may also explore the concepts
of (in)security in everyday mobile mapping, mapping the crisis and mapping
controversies. Counter-maps and subversive and /or artistic cartographic
interventions would provide interesting case studies as would subjective
mapping of fear, angst etc. Historically informed studies of mapping and
surveillance are also welcomed.
We are looking for practical examples and reflective research, including
critical cartography, that addresses some of the following questions :
. How do mapping practices define and construct insecurities, risks,
crime
and conflicts? How does the Web 2.0 context affect these?
. How are conflicts played out within Web.2.0 cartography? What new
power
relations are produced, what voices silenced?
. How are existing power relations and hegemonies contested, sustained
or
enhanced by cartographic practices?
. What sorts of cartographic anxieties are produced and how these are
changing in the Web 2.0 world?
. What is the role of technology, particularly location-aware
technologies, in these processes and how can we conceptualize it?
. What is the role of geographic research and education within Web 2.0
cartography - how can the place of geography within this field be "secured"?
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Please submit abstracts (approx. 250 words) to Cate Turk
([log in to unmask]) by 15 January 2011.
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