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

[Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes]

Is there going to be livestreaming over the Internet of this talk?
Sounds quite interesting, as the speaker's CV!

Best Regards | Cordiales Saludos | Grato,

Andrés L. Pacheco Sanfuentes
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+1 (817) 271-9619


On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 3:00 PM, Yosem Companys <companys at stanford.edu> wrote:
> http://cddrl.stanford.edu/events/are_crowdsourced_maps_the_future_of_community_selfgovernance_food_land_and_water/
>
> 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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