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
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