I found a talk by the same professor from Fall 2013 at Brown on the same topic, for those interested:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYL4pVUW7Lg Best Regards | Cordiales Saludos | Grato, Andrés L. Pacheco Sanfuentes <[email protected]> +1 (817) 271-9619 On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 9:07 PM, Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes <[email protected]> wrote: > 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].
