TODAY’S AGENDA:
- We’ll introduce ourselves by mapping our “place”
- I invite you to continue to map your various “places,” as a sort of collaborative auto-ethnographic project, on Slack throughout the semester; see the #mapping-our-place channel!
- Land acknowledgment + indigenous geolocation
- Overview of the semester
- Begin thinking about our “community agreement”
These texts will inform our introductory presentation; you needn’t read them, but you’re welcome to do so if you like!:
- Laura Bliss and Jessica Martin, “Your Year in Maps,” CityLab (December 21, 2020) [check out CityLab’s MapLab, and sign up for their newsletter!].
- Laura Bliss and Maria Patino, “How to Spot Misleading Election Maps,” CityLab (November 3, 2020).
- Kristi Cheramie, “The Scale of Nature: Modeling the Mississippi River,” Places Journal (March 2011).
- Deborah Cowen and Nemoy Lewis, “Anti-Blackness and Urban Geopolitical Economy,” Society + Space (August 2, 2016).
- *Louíse Druhle, “Critical Atlas of the Internet.”
- Paul Edwards, “Control Earth,” Places Journal (November 2016).
- Alex Horton, Andrew Ba Tran, Aaron Steckelberg, and John Muyskens, “How National Guard Helicopters Flew over D.C. Protesters, a Tactic Used in War Zones,” Washington Post (June 23, 2020) + see also Andrew Ba Tran’s Twitter thread.
- Gary Hustwit, “The Map” (2020) < film: 10:00 >.
- Johns Hopkins University, COVID-10 Dashboard.
- Tim Maly, “A Cloudless Atlas – How Mapbox Aims to Make the World’s ‘Most Beautiful Map,’” Wired (May 14, 2013).
- Randall Munroe, 2020 Election Map [via Kenneth Field].
- Brad Plumber, Nadja Popovich, and Brian Palmer, “How Decades of Racist Housing Policy Left Neighborhoods Sweltering,” New York Times (August 24, 2020).
- Rashad Shabazz, “Ghost Mapping: The Geography of Risk in Black Chicago” in Spatializing Blackness: Architectures of Confinement and Black Masculinity (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2015): 97-113. We’ll talk more about mapping race throughout the semester.
- TikTok election maps (via Trevor Owens).
- Torn Apart / Separados.
- *Uncharted [mapping the infrastructure behind cartography].
- Margaret Wickens Pearce’s work – especially as featured in Robert Lee and Tristan Ahtone, “Land-Grab Universities,” High Country News (March 30, 2020) [+ interactive site].
- My Zotero library of map-related books.
