[ecrea] Call for Chapters: Mapping Crisis: Participation, Datafication, and Humanitarianism in the Age of Digital Mapping

This call for chapters welcomes abstract submissions on the theme of 
Mapping Crisis for publication in an edited volume.

https://camri.ac.uk/blog/2018/08/01/mapping-crisis/
This book aims to bring together critical perspectives on the role that 
mapping people, knowledges and data now plays in humanitarian work, both 
in cartographic terms and through data visualisations. Since the rise of 
Google Earth in 2005, there has been an explosion in the use of mapping 
tools to quantify and assess the needs of the poor, including those 
affected by climate change and the wider neo-liberal agenda. Yet, while 
there has been a huge upsurge in the data produced around these issues, 
the representation of people remains questionable. Some have argued that 
representation has diminished in humanitarian crises as people are 
increasingly reduced to data points. In turn, this data becomes ever 
more difficult to analyse without vast computing power, leading to a 
dependency on the old colonial powers to refine the data of the poor, 
before selling it back to them. These issues are not entirely new, and 
questions around representation, participation and humanitarianism can 
be traced back beyond the speeches of Truman, but the digital age throws 
these issues back to the fore, as machine learning, algorithms and big 
data centres take over the process of mapping the subjugated and 
subaltern. This book aims to question whether, as we map crises, it is 
the map itself that is in crisis.

Themes that are of interest to the volume include:

    Data colonialism
    Contestatory cartographies
    Data and humanitarianism
    Big data and development
    The datafication of the SDGs
    Climate change and satellite data
    Digital counter-mapping practices

Other proposals within scope will also be considered.


The editor invites submissions of 200-250 word chapter proposals.

Deadline: 15th October 2018

Submissions should be sent to the editor, Doug Specht, at: 
(d.specht /at/ westminster.ac.uk)

Submissions should also include:

    a) Title of chapter
    b) Author name/s, institutional details
    c) Corresponding author’s email address
    d) Keywords (no more than 5)
    e) A short bio


Authors will be informed of commissioning by 1st November.

Commissioned chapters will be around 6,000-8,000 words and will be due 
by 1st February 2019.


It is intended that this book will be published by the Human Rights 
Consortium, University of London Press.

The fact that an abstract is accepted does not guarantee publication of 
the final manuscript. All chapters submitted will be judged on the basis 
of a double-blind reviewing process.

Should you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact the 
editor, Doug Specht, at (d.specht /at/ westminster.ac.uk)

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