Critical GIS as a tool for social transformation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8422112 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marianna Pavlovskaya (The Graduate Center, CUNY, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 40-54 |
| Publication date | 2018-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-3658 • E-ISSN: 1541-0064 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/cag.12438 |
| OpenAlex | W2792807508 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 39 |
| References cited | 49 |
When Critical GIS emerged in the 1990s and gained momentum in the 2000s, its potential for enabling progressive social change generated considerable excitement. By combining the powers of mapping, information technologies, and critical social theory, it promised new possibilities for acting upon the growing social contradictions of the neoliberal era. Critical GIS seemed to open a pragmatic plane of action by fusing progressive geographic imaginations with concrete and tangible maps. As I reflect on the state of critical GIS in the middle of the second decade of the 21st century, new configurations of class power, patriarchy, and racism are rapidly reshaping our social and geopolitical worlds and are precipitating environmental destruction. Yet, I attempt to develop the idea that GIS is a tool for social transformation because it can produce new cartographies and spaces of possibility and build and expand geographies of hope and care that change social imaginaries in favour of non‐hierarchical class, gender, and race relations. In short, critical GIS scholarship both engages ongoing progressive politics and can create new possibilities for change. In particular, I examine two interventions of critical GIS: creating cartographies of solidarity and teaching
Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Social change · Social transformation · Sociology · Solidarity · Geographic Information Systems Studies · Geography Education and Pedagogy · Historical Geography and Geographical Thought
Spatial Humanities 3.0
Mapping choice
Mapping Access
Human‐Centered Geospatial Data Science
Fixing the territory, a turning point
Mapping mapability
Digital food apartheid
The Study of Regional Innovation Network Structure
The contributions of socio-environmental information maps in an environmental mobilisation
Sense of presence and sense of place in perceiving a 3D geovisualization for communication in urban planning – Differences introduced by prior familiarity with the place
Whose Geography, Whose History? Reimagining How We Teach the History of Geography
The Social Digital Twin
In Consideration of Context
Text mining and semantic triples
Gowns, globalization, and “global intimate mapping”
Reorienting GIScience for a data-intensive society
The potential of combining qualitative GIS and map elicitation in daily mobility studies
Ground-truthing as Critical Race Feminista Methodology
Methodological Perspectives on Smuggling
Mapping a path towards equity
GIScience I
From the margins of Geographical Information Systems
New mappings of GIScience and geography. A commentary on May Yuan's ‘ GIS research to address tensions in geography’
Desert wonderings
Is Tourism the Beginning or the End? Livelihoods of Georgian Mountain People at Stake
Digital as a means for critique rather than the object of criticism in the collective mapping debate
Spatial and Relational Representations of Economic Well-being and the Kahumana Farm Hub, Wai’anae, Hawai’i
The politics of pixels
On Doing Relational Research
Examining the ‘gendered’ places and spaces of UK doctoral education using multilevel modelling
Speculative and constructively critical GIS
Teaching creative geovisualization
Legislating political space for LGBT families
Crowdsourcing as a methodology for global movements
Mapping unequal access to culture
Data feminism in action
Assessing Social Vulnerability through a Local Lens
Beading relations
Illuminating radical spatial imaginaries
Take Back the Economy
“Not Only … But Also”
The Discourse and Discipline of GIS
Mapping Public Housing
Mapping Women's Worlds
Caring for ethics and the politics of health care reform in the United States
Care of the Subject
Situating the geoweb in political economy
Planning and applied geography
Instead of Radical Geography, How About Caring Geography
Navigating the Fault Lines
Engaging with indigital geographic information networks
Towards economic geographies beyond the Nature-Society divide
Rethinking responsibility and care for a postcolonial world
Mapping census data for difference
Re-reading remittances through solidarity
New lines? Enacting a social history of GIS
Feminist geographies of new spatial media
The New Political Economy of Geographical Intelligence
Crossing over into neighbourhoods of the body
Introduction
Affecting Geospatial Technologies
Feminist Visualization
Geographies of Care and Responsibility
Seeing Red
Big Data, new epistemologies and paradigm shifts
Critical Data Studies
Theorizing with GIS
Dilemmas of Counter-Mapping Community Resources in Tanzania
Data colonialism through accumulation by dispossession
A View on the GIS Crisis in Geography, or, Using GIS to Put Humpty-Dumpty Back Together Again
Neogeography and the Delusion of Democratisation
My Dinner with Derrida, or Spatial Analysis and Poststructuralism Do Lunch
Revisiting critical GIS
Training the eye
Global care, local configurations - challenges to conceptualizations of care
The End of Capitalism (as we knew it)
Cartography, territory, property
| Unique citing works | 39 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,88 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 36 |