[liberationtech] Are Crowdsourced Maps the Future of Community Self-Governance? Food, Land, and Water - FSI Stanford

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Are Crowdsourced Maps the Future of Community Self-Governance? Food, Land, 
and Water  
CDDRL, Program on Liberation Technology Seminar Series

DATE AND TIME
January 9, 2014
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

AVAILABILITY
Open to the public
No RSVP required

SPEAKER
Prof. Jo Guldi - Asst Prof., Department of History at Brown University

http://www.joguldi.com

Abstract
Earlier generations of radicals understood themselves to be in an ongoing 
battle against the privatization of land and water.  They instrumentalized 
maps in the court system as a tool for battling for native sovereignty over 
traditional lands, protecting the rights of squatters, and securing access 
to water by poor farmers in the developing world.   Wherever battles for 
the commons take the form of a war for access to particular spaces, maps 
can help, whether activists are striking against high rents in the city, or 
protecting rivers from pollution.  Today, crowdsourced maps of land, food, 
and water present an opportunity for makers who want to work in support of 
a movement. My talk will highlight some of the most and least promising 
frontiers ahead.

 Professor Jo Guldi is presently Assistant Professor in the History of 
Britain and its Empire at Brown, where I teach courses related to 
capitalism, empire, land use, and computation.  Born in Dallas, Texas, I 
received my AB from Harvard University, and then studied at Trinity 
College, Cambridge before completing my PhD in History at the University of 
California, Berkeley, after which I continued on to postdocs at the 
University of Chicago and the Harvard Society of Fellows.  My first book, 
Roads to Power: Britain Invents the Infrastructure State (Harvard 
University Press, 2011), tells the story of how Britain built the first 
nation connected by infrastructure and technology caused strangers to stop 
speaking on the public street.  My next monograph, The Long Land War, will 
tell the story of international land reform movements from the Irish land 
war to Movimiento sin Tierra, lingering on legal reformers and civil 
servants, London's dredlocked squatters and their accidental influence on 
World Bank Policy, and the genesis of participatory mapping from Marxist 
development economists in the 1970s through radical coders in contemporary 
Chennai.

LOCATION
Wallenberg Theater
Wallenberg Hall
450 Serra Mall, Building 160
Stanford, Ca 94305-2055

FSI CONTACT
Kathleen Barcos <kbarcos at stanford.edu>
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