[Commlist] New Book: Mapping Crisis-Participation, Datafication and Humanitarianism in the Age of Digital Mapping

Mapping Crisis: Participation, Datafication and Humanitarianism in the 
Age of Digital Mapping

Doug Specht (ed)

*** Available now in paperback and Open Access: 
https://www.sas.ac.uk/publications/mapping-crisis ***

The digital age has thrown questions of representation, participation 
and humanitarianism back to the fore, as machine learning, algorithms 
and big data centres take over the process of mapping the subjugated and 
subaltern. 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 those in crisis, 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 has become ever more difficult to 
analyse without vast computing power, leading to a dependency on the old 
colonial powers to refine the data collected from people in crisis, 
before selling it back to them.

This book brings 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, and questions 
whether, as we map crises, it is the map itself that is in crisis.

Contents:

Mapping Crisis: a reflection on the Covid-19 pandemic
Doug Specht

Introduction: mapping in times of crisis
Doug Specht

1. Mapping as tacit representations of the colonial gaze
Tamara Bellone, Salvatore Engel-di-Mauro, Francesco Fiermonte, Emiliana 
Armano and Linda Quiquivix

2. The failures of participatory mapping: a mediational perspective
Gregory Asmolov

3. Knowledge and spatial production between old and new representation: 
a conceptual and operative framework
M. Rosaria Prisco

4. Data colonialism, surveillance capitalism and drones
Faine Greenwood

5. The role of data collection, mapping and analysis in the reproduction 
of refugeeness and migration discourses: reflections from the Refugee 
Spaces project
Giovanna Astolfo, Ricardo Marten Caceres, Falli Palaiologou, Camillo 
Boano and Ed Manley

6. Dying in the technosphere: an intersectional analysis of European 
migration maps
Monika Halkort

7. Now the totality maps us: mapping climate migration and surveilling 
movable borders in digital cartographies
Bogna M Konior

8. The rise of the citizen data scientist
Aleš Završnik and Pika Šarf

9. Modalities of united statelessness
Rupert Allan

Available now in paperback and Open Access: 
https://www.sas.ac.uk/publications/mapping-crisis

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