Digital mapping as feminist method: critical reflections

Fileborn, Bianca

doi:10.1177/14687941211028797

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“…Also part of the many are map-based platforms, from primary application programming interfaces such as Google Maps to participatory storymapping offshoots like the Egyptian feminist activist site HarrassMap (harrassmap.org). Such sites have been used and studied for their potential to address issues of awareness and representation as linked to space or location (Abdelmonem & Galán, 2017; Fileborn, 2023). This scholarship sustains critical attention on the emancipatory potential of place-based memorialising and mobilisations of polyvocality (Dodge & Kitchin, 2013; Marshall et al, 2022).…”

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What matters in the queer archive? Technologies of memory and Queering the Map

Watson,

Kirby,

Churchill

et al. 2023

The Sociological Review

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Queering the Map ( queeringthemap.com ) is a novel digital platform: a storymap, an anonymous collaborative record, an archive of queer experiences. To contribute to the platform, visitors make their own mark by clicking on an empty space on the map. As to what visitors contribute, the platform’s About section suggests, simply, ‘If it counts for you, then it counts for Queering the Map’. In this article, we probe this guiding principle. What does count in this context? What matters in the queer archive? Drawing on interviews with 14 site users and an analysis of nearly 2000 stories pinned to Australia on the map, we consider what platform practices reveal about queer collective memory-making, to illuminate the how and why of a queer archive. We see that relatability matters because of the affective, affirming and community-building seeds it can generate; situation matters because it is through participatory practices that recognition, visibility and community place- making are enacted; and, the everyday matters as the archive’s visitors collectively claim and gift their varied personal experiences. Through these themes we explore queer contributions or how site visitors are oriented towards giving something of themselves to the archive. We discuss how archival properties of the platform are key to (queer) participation, and to meaning-making – as distinct, as queer, as a valued record. Queering the Map, we argue, is significant in how space is made for queer representation, carving new contours for archival ‘evidence’ and community histories.

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Section: Background: Connection Collection Witness and Memorymentioning

confidence: 99%

What matters in the queer archive? Technologies of memory and Queering the Map

Watson,

Kirby,

Churchill

et al. 2023

The Sociological Review

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It is “Part of this Larger Tapestry of Anti-queer Experiences”: LGBTQ+ Australians’ Experiences of Street Harassment

Fileborn,

Hindes

2023

Crit Crim

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Most research on street harassment has focused on the experiences of heterosexual, cisgender women, shaping our understandings of street harassment as a problem of sexism and men’s violence against women. In this article, we examine semi-structured interviews with 25 LGBTQ+ Australians who detailed their experiences of street harassment. We found that LGBTQ+ people experience unique forms, contexts, and trajectories of street harassment that a cisheteronormative gendered framework cannot fully account for. Homophobia, transphobia, and heterosexism are drivers that have been under-theorized in street harassment literature. Our findings reiterate the importance of moving beyond over-simplified understandings of gender-based violence and the need to analyze other intersecting forms of marginalization beyond binary conceptualizations of gender.

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‘Why did he do it? Because he’s a Fucking Bloke’: Victim Insights into the Perpetration of Street Harassment

Hindes

Fileborn

2022

The British Journal of Criminology

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Despite the pervasive nature of street harassment, there is currently little research exploring who perpetrates street harassment and why. Drawing on interviews with Australians who have experienced street harassment, we examine their insights into perpetration. Participants identified individual-level, social/cultural, structural and contextual factors that facilitate street harassment. While existing theoretical explanations of gendered violence help to account for the perpetration of street harassment, these were not sufficient in accounting for participants’ experiences. Participants often drew on gendered, aged, classed and racial stereotypes in their perceptions of perpetrators. We argue that a nuanced understanding of power that accounts for multiple, intersecting forms of marginalisation is needed to understand who perpetrates, as well as who is perceived to perpetrate street harassment.

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Digital mapping as feminist method: critical reflections

Cited by 7 publications

References 33 publications

What matters in the queer archive? Technologies of memory and Queering the Map

What matters in the queer archive? Technologies of memory and Queering the Map

It is “Part of this Larger Tapestry of Anti-queer Experiences”: LGBTQ+ Australians’ Experiences of Street Harassment

‘Why did he do it? Because he’s a Fucking Bloke’: Victim Insights into the Perpetration of Street Harassment

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