Jim Thatcher
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 297937 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jim Thatcher |
| PRENOMES | Jim |
| SOBRENOME | Thatcher |
| ASSINATURA | THATCHER J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Washington Tacoma |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 366 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2011 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Geography’s Role in Civic Engagement
Every ten years, following the census, the United States engages in electoral redistricting—the process of redrawing congressional, state, and local districts. Given legislative, political, and social repercussions, participation in redistricting is a powerful form of engaged scholarship and an opportunity for geographers to communicate directly with community members and policymakers and to demonstrate the power of geographic analysis. This arti…
Cartography
Cartography plays a central role in how society represents, comes to know, and moves through the world. Wars have been fought over lines on the maps cartographers draw, but so, too, have community organizers as cartographers used maps to reclaim land. As such, cartography and the maps cartographers create, critique, and research can be understood as claims on the world—what it is and what it might be; cartography is the means of telling stories a…
From Foss to profit
Existing literature has scrutinized the impact of geospatial technologies from various angles. This article adopts a heterodox vantage point—the mode of production—to illuminate the intricate power dynamics woven into the fabric of these technologies. By focusing on the mode of production, we meticulously demonstrate how ostensibly novel digital technologies and geospatial data formats wield power within social relations of production. Responding…
Speculative geographies
Speculative thinking has made its mark in several disciplines and literary genres, including continental philosophy, predictive analytics, and science (or speculative) fiction. What might speculation look like through a geographical lens? And how would such thinking in a distinctly geographical register build on and possibly place into a wider context work on utopias, alternative communities, game worldscapes, and speculative futures? This conver…
Climate change communication beyond the digital divide
Despite widespread acceptance amongst researchers, climate change and responses to it remain a socially and politically debated topic. Within cartography and cognate disciplines, this has often been construed as an issue of communication: maps are tools for communication and better maps will lead to greater understanding of and responses to climate change. While existing research has shown some support for the efficacy of such approaches, this ar…
Computational parasites and hydropower
Over the past three years, the dams of Chelan County, Washington, its watershed and fish, the electrical grid and the laborers who maintain it, and cleared land with warehouses filled with computers, have all been enrolled as part of the decentralized digital infrastructure of Bitcoin. While popular accounts of the Bitcoin network correctly report the massive scale of energy it consumes and its potential environmental ramifications, in practice, …
Introduction to regional approaches to data, environment and society
Theoretical and methodological research into the geographical effects of software, algorithms, sensors and platforms increasingly focuses squarely on data and their analysis. Amidst increasing attention on ‘the digital’ (broadly defined) within various cognate fields, scholars have begun critically scrutinizing the recursive relations between individual, society, city-regions and environment as mediated through technological and computational dev…
"Smart" Discourses, the Limits of Representation, and New Regimes of Spatial Data
As "smart" urbanism becomes more influential, spaces and places are increasingly represented through numeric and categorical data that have been gathered by sensors, devices, and people. Such systems purportedly provide access to always visible, measurable, and knowable spaces, facilitating ever more rational management and planning. Smart city spaces are thus governed through the algorithmic administration and categorization of difference and st…
Phase Media
James Ash. New York, NY: Bloomsbury, 2018. x and 212 pp., bibliography, index. $120.00 cloth (ISBN 978-1-5013-3560-0).The novelist Philip Pullman once offered an instructive interpretation of phase
Waste is information
In this well-researched and wide-ranging text, Offenhuber blends theory and empirics to argue that as urban design is a form of governance (Offenhuber, 2017, p. 11), it should increasingly be handl
Thinking Big Data in Geography
Speculative and constructively critical GIS
The poverty of GIS theory
Over the past several decades, GISystems and GIScience have become established and valorized within the field of geography and geographic education. With the recent explosion in daily use of devices producing spatial data, such as smartphones, has come a renewed call to broaden the purview of Critical GIS beyond the desktop and towards these new systems of capitalist accumulation. In this viewpoint, we argue that any re‐examination of the role of…
Urban studies and thinking topologically
Urban studies and thinking topologically. Territory, Politics, Governance. This paper explores how topological thinking may be a useful heuristic offering increased conceptual flexibility for those grappling with how best to make comparison and generalizations across geographical locations. We review the existing literature that has used topology as a means of thinking about connectivity, space and spatial relations. We argue that thinking topolo…
Evolving technology, shifting expectations
As humans and natural processes continuously reshape the surface of the Earth, there is an unceasing need to document and analyze them through the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The public is gaining more access to spatial technologies that were once only available to highly trained professionals. With technological evolution comes a requirement to transition traditional GIS training for the next generation of GIS professionals. Tra…
Visualizing new political ecologies
You are where you go, the commodification of daily life through 'location
Recent years have seen an explosion in the investment into and valuation of mobile spatial applications. With multiple applications currently valued at well over one billion U.S. dollars, mobile spatial applications and the data they generate have come to play an increasingly significant role in the function of late capitalism. Empirically based upon a series of interviews conducted with mobile application designers and developers, this article d…
The object of mobile spatial data, the subject in mobile spatial research
With an estimated one billion smartphones producing over 5 petabytes of data a day, the spatially aware mobile device has become a near ubiquitous presence in daily life. Cogent, excellent research in a variety of fields has explored what the spatial data these devices produce can reveal of society, such as analysis of Foursquare check-ins to reveal patterns of mobility for groups through a city. In such studies, the individual intentions, motiva…
Critical Data Studies
In light of recent technological innovations and discourses around data and algorithmic analytics, scholars of many stripes are attempting to develop critical agendas and responses to these developments (boyd and Crawford 2012). In this mutual interview, three scholars discuss the stakes, ideas, responsibilities, and possibilities of critical data studies. The resulting dialog seeks to explore what kinds of critical approaches to these topics, in…
Data colonialism through accumulation by dispossession
In recent years, much has been written on 'big data' in both the popular and academic press. After the hubristic declaration of the 'end of theory' more nuanced arguments have emerged, suggesting that increasingly pervasive data collection and quantification may have significant implications for the social sciences, even if the social, scientific, political, and economic agendas behind big data are less new than they are often portrayed. Compared…
Revisiting critical GIS
The article looks into the critical geographic information science (GIS) in approaching questions both emerging and enduring around the intersection of the spatial and the digital. It offers trading zones for discussion of issues, for building alliances and interrogating tensions, and for a constant dialectical process of critique and renewal. One tension running through critical GIS is the contradictory role it has played in addressing questions…
Inflated granularity
Data analytics, particularly the current rhetoric around "Big Data", tend to be presented as new and innovative, emerging ahistorically to revolutionize modern life. In this article, we situate one branch of Big Data analytics, spatial Big Data, through a historical predecessor, geodemographic analysis, to help develop a critical approach to current data analytics. Spatial Big Data promises an epistemic break in marketing, a leap from targeting g…
Avoiding the Ghetto through hope and fear
Urban Modernity
The Shallows
Data colonialism through accumulation by dispossession
In recent years, much has been written on 'big data' in both the popular and academic press. After the hubristic declaration of the 'end of theory' more nuanced arguments have emerged, suggesting that increasingly pervasive data collection and quantification may have significant implications for the social sciences, even if the social, scientific, political, and economic agendas behind big data are less new than they are often portrayed. Compared…
Visualizing new political ecologies
Critical Data Studies
In light of recent technological innovations and discourses around data and algorithmic analytics, scholars of many stripes are attempting to develop critical agendas and responses to these developments (boyd and Crawford 2012). In this mutual interview, three scholars discuss the stakes, ideas, responsibilities, and possibilities of critical data studies. The resulting dialog seeks to explore what kinds of critical approaches to these topics, in…
Computational parasites and hydropower
Over the past three years, the dams of Chelan County, Washington, its watershed and fish, the electrical grid and the laborers who maintain it, and cleared land with warehouses filled with computers, have all been enrolled as part of the decentralized digital infrastructure of Bitcoin. While popular accounts of the Bitcoin network correctly report the massive scale of energy it consumes and its potential environmental ramifications, in practice, …
Avoiding the Ghetto through hope and fear
Inflated granularity
Data analytics, particularly the current rhetoric around "Big Data", tend to be presented as new and innovative, emerging ahistorically to revolutionize modern life. In this article, we situate one branch of Big Data analytics, spatial Big Data, through a historical predecessor, geodemographic analysis, to help develop a critical approach to current data analytics. Spatial Big Data promises an epistemic break in marketing, a leap from targeting g…
Revisiting critical GIS
The article looks into the critical geographic information science (GIS) in approaching questions both emerging and enduring around the intersection of the spatial and the digital. It offers trading zones for discussion of issues, for building alliances and interrogating tensions, and for a constant dialectical process of critique and renewal. One tension running through critical GIS is the contradictory role it has played in addressing questions…
"Smart" Discourses, the Limits of Representation, and New Regimes of Spatial Data
As "smart" urbanism becomes more influential, spaces and places are increasingly represented through numeric and categorical data that have been gathered by sensors, devices, and people. Such systems purportedly provide access to always visible, measurable, and knowable spaces, facilitating ever more rational management and planning. Smart city spaces are thus governed through the algorithmic administration and categorization of difference and st…
You are where you go, the commodification of daily life through 'location
Recent years have seen an explosion in the investment into and valuation of mobile spatial applications. With multiple applications currently valued at well over one billion U.S. dollars, mobile spatial applications and the data they generate have come to play an increasingly significant role in the function of late capitalism. Empirically based upon a series of interviews conducted with mobile application designers and developers, this article d…
Urban studies and thinking topologically
Urban studies and thinking topologically. Territory, Politics, Governance. This paper explores how topological thinking may be a useful heuristic offering increased conceptual flexibility for those grappling with how best to make comparison and generalizations across geographical locations. We review the existing literature that has used topology as a means of thinking about connectivity, space and spatial relations. We argue that thinking topolo…
The object of mobile spatial data, the subject in mobile spatial research
With an estimated one billion smartphones producing over 5 petabytes of data a day, the spatially aware mobile device has become a near ubiquitous presence in daily life. Cogent, excellent research in a variety of fields has explored what the spatial data these devices produce can reveal of society, such as analysis of Foursquare check-ins to reveal patterns of mobility for groups through a city. In such studies, the individual intentions, motiva…
Speculative geographies
Speculative thinking has made its mark in several disciplines and literary genres, including continental philosophy, predictive analytics, and science (or speculative) fiction. What might speculation look like through a geographical lens? And how would such thinking in a distinctly geographical register build on and possibly place into a wider context work on utopias, alternative communities, game worldscapes, and speculative futures? This conver…
Introduction to regional approaches to data, environment and society
Theoretical and methodological research into the geographical effects of software, algorithms, sensors and platforms increasingly focuses squarely on data and their analysis. Amidst increasing attention on ‘the digital’ (broadly defined) within various cognate fields, scholars have begun critically scrutinizing the recursive relations between individual, society, city-regions and environment as mediated through technological and computational dev…
Speculative and constructively critical GIS
Evolving technology, shifting expectations
As humans and natural processes continuously reshape the surface of the Earth, there is an unceasing need to document and analyze them through the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The public is gaining more access to spatial technologies that were once only available to highly trained professionals. With technological evolution comes a requirement to transition traditional GIS training for the next generation of GIS professionals. Tra…
From Foss to profit
Existing literature has scrutinized the impact of geospatial technologies from various angles. This article adopts a heterodox vantage point—the mode of production—to illuminate the intricate power dynamics woven into the fabric of these technologies. By focusing on the mode of production, we meticulously demonstrate how ostensibly novel digital technologies and geospatial data formats wield power within social relations of production. Responding…
The poverty of GIS theory
Over the past several decades, GISystems and GIScience have become established and valorized within the field of geography and geographic education. With the recent explosion in daily use of devices producing spatial data, such as smartphones, has come a renewed call to broaden the purview of Critical GIS beyond the desktop and towards these new systems of capitalist accumulation. In this viewpoint, we argue that any re‐examination of the role of…
The Shallows
Hip Hop Underground
Galileo in Pittsburgh
Urban Modernity
Avoiding the Ghetto through hope and fear
Inflated granularity
Data analytics, particularly the current rhetoric around "Big Data", tend to be presented as new and innovative, emerging ahistorically to revolutionize modern life. In this article, we situate one branch of Big Data analytics, spatial Big Data, through a historical predecessor, geodemographic analysis, to help develop a critical approach to current data analytics. Spatial Big Data promises an epistemic break in marketing, a leap from targeting g…
The object of mobile spatial data, the subject in mobile spatial research
With an estimated one billion smartphones producing over 5 petabytes of data a day, the spatially aware mobile device has become a near ubiquitous presence in daily life. Cogent, excellent research in a variety of fields has explored what the spatial data these devices produce can reveal of society, such as analysis of Foursquare check-ins to reveal patterns of mobility for groups through a city. In such studies, the individual intentions, motiva…
Critical Data Studies
In light of recent technological innovations and discourses around data and algorithmic analytics, scholars of many stripes are attempting to develop critical agendas and responses to these developments (boyd and Crawford 2012). In this mutual interview, three scholars discuss the stakes, ideas, responsibilities, and possibilities of critical data studies. The resulting dialog seeks to explore what kinds of critical approaches to these topics, in…
Data colonialism through accumulation by dispossession
In recent years, much has been written on 'big data' in both the popular and academic press. After the hubristic declaration of the 'end of theory' more nuanced arguments have emerged, suggesting that increasingly pervasive data collection and quantification may have significant implications for the social sciences, even if the social, scientific, political, and economic agendas behind big data are less new than they are often portrayed. Compared…
Revisiting critical GIS
The article looks into the critical geographic information science (GIS) in approaching questions both emerging and enduring around the intersection of the spatial and the digital. It offers trading zones for discussion of issues, for building alliances and interrogating tensions, and for a constant dialectical process of critique and renewal. One tension running through critical GIS is the contradictory role it has played in addressing questions…
Urban studies and thinking topologically
Urban studies and thinking topologically. Territory, Politics, Governance. This paper explores how topological thinking may be a useful heuristic offering increased conceptual flexibility for those grappling with how best to make comparison and generalizations across geographical locations. We review the existing literature that has used topology as a means of thinking about connectivity, space and spatial relations. We argue that thinking topolo…
Evolving technology, shifting expectations
As humans and natural processes continuously reshape the surface of the Earth, there is an unceasing need to document and analyze them through the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The public is gaining more access to spatial technologies that were once only available to highly trained professionals. With technological evolution comes a requirement to transition traditional GIS training for the next generation of GIS professionals. Tra…
Visualizing new political ecologies
You are where you go, the commodification of daily life through 'location
Recent years have seen an explosion in the investment into and valuation of mobile spatial applications. With multiple applications currently valued at well over one billion U.S. dollars, mobile spatial applications and the data they generate have come to play an increasingly significant role in the function of late capitalism. Empirically based upon a series of interviews conducted with mobile application designers and developers, this article d…
Thinking Big Data in Geography
Speculative and constructively critical GIS
The poverty of GIS theory
Over the past several decades, GISystems and GIScience have become established and valorized within the field of geography and geographic education. With the recent explosion in daily use of devices producing spatial data, such as smartphones, has come a renewed call to broaden the purview of Critical GIS beyond the desktop and towards these new systems of capitalist accumulation. In this viewpoint, we argue that any re‐examination of the role of…
Phase Media
James Ash. New York, NY: Bloomsbury, 2018. x and 212 pp., bibliography, index. $120.00 cloth (ISBN 978-1-5013-3560-0).The novelist Philip Pullman once offered an instructive interpretation of phase
Waste is information
In this well-researched and wide-ranging text, Offenhuber blends theory and empirics to argue that as urban design is a form of governance (Offenhuber, 2017, p. 11), it should increasingly be handl
"Smart" Discourses, the Limits of Representation, and New Regimes of Spatial Data
As "smart" urbanism becomes more influential, spaces and places are increasingly represented through numeric and categorical data that have been gathered by sensors, devices, and people. Such systems purportedly provide access to always visible, measurable, and knowable spaces, facilitating ever more rational management and planning. Smart city spaces are thus governed through the algorithmic administration and categorization of difference and st…
Introduction to regional approaches to data, environment and society
Theoretical and methodological research into the geographical effects of software, algorithms, sensors and platforms increasingly focuses squarely on data and their analysis. Amidst increasing attention on ‘the digital’ (broadly defined) within various cognate fields, scholars have begun critically scrutinizing the recursive relations between individual, society, city-regions and environment as mediated through technological and computational dev…
Climate change communication beyond the digital divide
Despite widespread acceptance amongst researchers, climate change and responses to it remain a socially and politically debated topic. Within cartography and cognate disciplines, this has often been construed as an issue of communication: maps are tools for communication and better maps will lead to greater understanding of and responses to climate change. While existing research has shown some support for the efficacy of such approaches, this ar…
Computational parasites and hydropower
Over the past three years, the dams of Chelan County, Washington, its watershed and fish, the electrical grid and the laborers who maintain it, and cleared land with warehouses filled with computers, have all been enrolled as part of the decentralized digital infrastructure of Bitcoin. While popular accounts of the Bitcoin network correctly report the massive scale of energy it consumes and its potential environmental ramifications, in practice, …
From Foss to profit
Existing literature has scrutinized the impact of geospatial technologies from various angles. This article adopts a heterodox vantage point—the mode of production—to illuminate the intricate power dynamics woven into the fabric of these technologies. By focusing on the mode of production, we meticulously demonstrate how ostensibly novel digital technologies and geospatial data formats wield power within social relations of production. Responding…
Speculative geographies
Speculative thinking has made its mark in several disciplines and literary genres, including continental philosophy, predictive analytics, and science (or speculative) fiction. What might speculation look like through a geographical lens? And how would such thinking in a distinctly geographical register build on and possibly place into a wider context work on utopias, alternative communities, game worldscapes, and speculative futures? This conver…
Computer Science (16 obras) · Sociology (14 obras) · Geographic Information Systems Studies (12 obras) · Geography (11 obras) · Political science (11 obras) · Economics (9 obras) · Politics (8 obras) · Data science (7 obras) · Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (7 obras) · World Wide Web (6 obras)