Is there going to be livestreaming over the Internet of this talk? Sounds quite interesting, as the speaker's CV!
Best Regards | Cordiales Saludos | Grato, Andrés L. Pacheco Sanfuentes <[email protected]> +1 (817) 271-9619 On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 3:00 PM, Yosem Companys <[email protected]> wrote: > http://cddrl.stanford.edu/events/are_crowdsourced_maps_the_future_of_community_selfgovernance_food_land_and_water/ > > Are Crowdsourced Maps the Future of Community Self-Governance? Food, Land, > and Water > CDDRL, Program on Liberation Technology Seminar Series > > DATE AND TIME > January 9, 2014 > 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM > > AVAILABILITY > Open to the public > No RSVP required > > SPEAKER > Prof. Jo Guldi - Asst Prof., Department of History at Brown University > > http://www.joguldi.com > > Abstract > Earlier generations of radicals understood themselves to be in an ongoing > battle against the privatization of land and water. They instrumentalized > maps in the court system as a tool for battling for native sovereignty over > traditional lands, protecting the rights of squatters, and securing access > to water by poor farmers in the developing world. Wherever battles for the > commons take the form of a war for access to particular spaces, maps can > help, whether activists are striking against high rents in the city, or > protecting rivers from pollution. Today, crowdsourced maps of land, food, > and water present an opportunity for makers who want to work in support of a > movement. My talk will highlight some of the most and least promising > frontiers ahead. > > Professor Jo Guldi is presently Assistant Professor in the History of > Britain and its Empire at Brown, where I teach courses related to > capitalism, empire, land use, and computation. Born in Dallas, Texas, I > received my AB from Harvard University, and then studied at Trinity College, > Cambridge before completing my PhD in History at the University of > California, Berkeley, after which I continued on to postdocs at the > University of Chicago and the Harvard Society of Fellows. My first book, > Roads to Power: Britain Invents the Infrastructure State (Harvard University > Press, 2011), tells the story of how Britain built the first nation > connected by infrastructure and technology caused strangers to stop speaking > on the public street. My next monograph, The Long Land War, will tell the > story of international land reform movements from the Irish land war to > Movimiento sin Tierra, lingering on legal reformers and civil servants, > London's dredlocked squatters and their accidental influence on World Bank > Policy, and the genesis of participatory mapping from Marxist development > economists in the 1970s through radical coders in contemporary Chennai. > > LOCATION > Wallenberg Theater > Wallenberg Hall > 450 Serra Mall, Building 160 > Stanford, Ca 94305-2055 > > FSI CONTACT > Kathleen Barcos <[email protected]> > > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of > list guidelines will get you moderated: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, > change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at > [email protected]. -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at [email protected].
