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

[Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes]

I found a talk by the same professor from Fall 2013 at Brown on the
same topic, for those interested:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYL4pVUW7Lg

Best Regards | Cordiales Saludos | Grato,

Andrés L. Pacheco Sanfuentes
<alps at acm.org>
+1 (817) 271-9619


On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 9:07 PM, Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes
<alps6085 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
> <alps at acm.org>
> +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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