For geographical imagination systems

Bergmann, Luke; Lally, Nick

doi:10.1080/24694452.2020.1750941

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“…Critical and postrepresentational perspectives on cartography (e.g. Bergmann and Lally 2021;Caquard, 2015) continue to be important for expanding the ontologies and epistemologies of mapping and may prove useful for advancing the notion of representation in tactile graphics more generally. Navigational aids that are not tactilenor, occasionally, strictly maps -yet are designed for people who are B/VI, constitute a major topical focus for accessible spatial representation.…”

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confidence: 99%

Tactile cartography in the digital age: A review and research agenda

Cole

2021

Progress in Human Geography

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Spatial media for people who are blind or visually impaired (B/VI) have evolved considerably in the years following Chris Perkins’ review of tactile map research, especially due to the proliferation of Internet access, mobile computing, and GPS technology. Reviewing intervening research, I identify prevailing themes in cartographic data management, media production, map design, and map use. I then propose a research agenda that identifies four high-priority topics for investigation: research conducted by people who are B/VI, maps created by people who are B/VI, low-tech tactile mapping, and social dynamics of tactile map use and production.

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Tactile cartography in the digital age: A review and research agenda

Cole

2021

Progress in Human Geography

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“…In addition, it is from this reduction that network analysis' appeal originates as it allows the researcher to highlight with mathematical precision one salient aspect of a messy reality. But geographers are well positioned to acknowledge the trade‐off associated with such abstraction as they have done much to develop conceptualizations of space that complement and transcend Cartesian understandings, emphasizing that space is not an empty container to be filled but produced through social practice (Lefebvre [1974] 1991 ), and develop ways to imagine and visualize these alternative conceptions (Bergmann & Lally 2021 ; Poorthuis & Zook 2020 ). Space and the entities populating it do not precede relations but are constituted through them (Massey 1993 ; Emirbayer 1997 ).…”

Section: Epistemological Precepts Of Geographical Network Analysismentioning

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Geographical Network Analysis

Uitermark

Meeteren

2021

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

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As the volume of digital data is growing exponentially and computational methods are advancing rapidly, network analysis is an increasingly important analytical tool to understand social life. This paper revisits the rich history of network analysis in geography and uses insights from that history to review contemporary computational social science. Based on that analysis, we synthesize the distinctive qualities of what we term geographical network analysis. Geographical network analysis presumes that networks are situated, construed through meaning, and reflect power relations. Instead of pursuing parsimonious explanations or universal theories, geographical network analysis strives to understand how uneven networks develop across space and within place through a constant back and forth between abstraction and contextualization. Drawing on the articles in this special issue, this paper illustrates how geographical network analysis can be put to work.

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“…In addition to situating maps and critiquing their ideological underpinnings, some critical geographers have argued for examining the underlying assumptions in geographic information data and mapping – especially the continued reliance on dominant conceptions of space that render “a complex spatiality into abstract space” (Roth, 2009, p. 208). Instead, they encourage the cultivation of “more‐than‐Euclidean, nonabsolute spatial representations” (O’Sullivan et al, 2018, p. 130), playful “geographical imagination systems” (Bergmann & Lally, 2021, p. 26), and creative approaches to counter‐mapping (Roth, 2009). For one, Luke Bergmann (2016) calls for embracing “speculative data,” the multiple “potentialities” of data, in order to “offer approaches to reconstructing geographic information in which spaces are relational, matter is vibrant, and/or knowledge is situated” (p. 973).…”

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Speculating on vacancy

Noterman

2021

Trans Inst British Geog

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Property speculation has long served a role in the settler colonial appropriation of land and the racialised uneven development of contemporary cities. This future‐oriented approach to property acquisition and management is underpinned by notions of vacancy that erase past and present forms of possession and associate racialised spaces with lack and risk. Efforts to define, represent, and manage the speculative value of “vacant” properties through predictive mapping work to colonise the future in ways that erase the present and past. In this paper, I reflect on the role of speculative cartographies of property in both reifying and undermining normative urban property regimes. Specifically, I examine the city of Philadelphia’s use of cartographic tools to identify “likely” property vacancy and how they relate to ongoing racialised dispossession. I then turn to consider the potential of speculative (counter) cartographies of property to contribute to new political realities, not just prevailing geographies. To do so, I engage with the work of artists and activists who are using mapmaking grounded in Afrofuturism to reclaim and reimagine the space‐times of properties deemed by city officials and developers to be “empty” or “wasted.” I suggest that while speculative cartographies of property facilitate the consolidation of liberal property regimes, they also allow for their disruption by revealing their situatedness and contingency – and by facilitating alternative visions of urban futures.

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For geographical imagination systems

Cited by 42 publications

References 35 publications

Tactile cartography in the digital age: A review and research agenda

Tactile cartography in the digital age: A review and research agenda

Geographical Network Analysis

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