A Critical Cartography of Sensors and Algorithms

Carraro, Valentina

doi:10.1007/978-981-16-3314-0_2

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“…Our map looks at Wallmapu “from above”, a perspective that is admittedly at odds with Mapuche ways of knowing. We also used the OpenStreetMap database for our baselayer, which in turn relies on (and thereby legitimates) the political and administrative boundaries imposed by the Chilean state (on OSM in contexts of colonialism see Carraro, 2021, chap. 5)…”

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Undoing disaster colonialism: a pilot map of the pandemic's first wave in the Mapuche territories of Southern Chile

Carraro

Kelly

Vargas³

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PurposeThe authors use media research and crowdsourced mapping to document how the first wave of the pandemic (April–August 2020) affected the Mapuche, focussing on seven categories of events: territorial control, spiritual defence, food sovereignty, traditional health practices, political violence, territorial needs and solidarity, and extractivist expansion.Design/methodology/approachResearch on the effects of the pandemic on the Mapuche and their territories is lacking; the few existing studies focus on death and infection rates but overlook how the pandemic interacts with ongoing processes of extractivism, state violence and community resistance. The authors’ pilot study addresses this gap through a map developed collaboratively by disaster scholars and Mapuche journalists.FindingsThe map provides a spatial and chronological overview of this period, highlighting the interconnections between the pandemic and neocolonialism. As examples, the authors focus on two phenomena: the creation of “health barriers” to ensure local territorial control and the state-supported expansion of extractive industries during the first months of the lockdown.Research limitations/implicationsThe authors intersperse our account of the project with reflections on its limitations and, specifically, on how colonial formations shape the research. Decolonising disaster studies and disaster risk reduction practice, the authors argue, is an ongoing process, bound to be flawed and incomplete but nevertheless an urgent pursuit.Originality/valueIn making this argument, the paper responds to the Disaster Studies Manifesto that inspires this special issue, taking up its invitation to scholars to be more reflexive about their research practice and to frame their investigations through grounded perspectives.

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Undoing disaster colonialism: a pilot map of the pandemic's first wave in the Mapuche territories of Southern Chile

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Kelly

Vargas³

et al. 2021

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“…Critical analyses of technology have also importantly highlighted how Palestine has been ‘constructed as an empty space waiting to be revived by superior technologies’ (Hassouna, 2023, p.4). Recent works have shown how various ‘innovative’ technologies from digital maps to social media, and from AI to cybersecurity, continue this history (7amleh, 2019; Carraro, 2021; Goodfriend, 2021; Tawil‐Souri, 2012), processes in which the ‘eliminatory speed’ of technology gives an edge for Israeli settler colonialism over Palestinians (Ghantous & Joronen, 2022).…”

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Innovation as erasure: Palestine and the new regional alliances of technology

Tarvainen,

Challand

2023

Trans Inst British Geog

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This article explores the growing connections between the Persian Gulf states and the heavily militarised Israeli innovation ecosystem. The Gulf actors now play an increasing role in support of Israel as a globally expanding ‘Start‐up Nation’, and are involved in transforming Palestinian land into a regional frontier of technology in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Israeli‐Gulf cooperation and its impact on Palestinians, however, has not been thoroughly researched. Drawing from fieldwork among Palestinian and Israeli innovation elites, we map these growing connections between Gulf state actors and Israel and analyse how the occupied Palestinian territories are further enmeshed in complex networks of financial capitalist and settler colonial security interests. Theoretically, the paper advances the critique of the contemporary settler colonial frontier, venturing beyond its usual Eurocentric and binary geographies. We conclude that ‘innovation’ is both (a) the terrain of expanding structures of Israeli colonisation and (b) the site of productive ambivalences and novel forms of resistance in an evolving regional and global reality.

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A Critical Cartography of Sensors and Algorithms

Cited by 2 publications

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Undoing disaster colonialism: a pilot map of the pandemic's first wave in the Mapuche territories of Southern Chile

Undoing disaster colonialism: a pilot map of the pandemic's first wave in the Mapuche territories of Southern Chile

Innovation as erasure: Palestine and the new regional alliances of technology

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