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GIS APPLICATIONS IN SOCIAL GEOGRAPHY
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Critical cartography and critical GIS reading list (updated 10/8/08)

  • These journals are available in the Hunter library (some are available on-line - see Library Journals):
    • Annals of the AAG
    • The Professional Geographer
    • Cartography and GIS
    • International journal of GIS
    • Cartographica
  • In addition to this list, you are welcome to use other relevant readings (from the above and other journals; also see GIS and Society links).
  • Copies of some of the articles listed below are on reserve in the GISSG folder in the Main Office. If you use a reserve copy, you can borrow it to make a copy for yourself. Please sign your name when you borrow an article. If the copy is not there, please find the copy in the library (or through the on-line databases) and give me a copy of the article for future students to use.

Armstrong, M. P., and A. J. Ruggles. 2005. Geographic information technologies and personal privacy. Cartographica. Special Issue Critical GIS, Harvey, F., M-P. Kwan, and M.Pavlovskaya, Eds.  40, (4): 63-73.

 

Bell, Scott and Reed, Maureen. Adapting to the machine: Integrating GIS into qualitative research. Cartographica. 2004; 39(1):55-66.

 

Biemann, U. 2002. Remotely sensed: A topography of the global sex trade. Feminist Review 70: 75-88.

 

Cieri, Marie. Between being and looking: Queer tourism promotion and lesbian social space in Greater Philadelphia. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies. 2003; 2(2):147-166.

 

Craig, W. J., T. M. Harris, and D. Weiner, eds. 2002. Community participation and geographic information systems. London: Taylor and Francis.

 

Crampton, J. W., and J. Krygier. 2005. An introduction to critical cartography. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies 4, (1): 11-13.

 

Crampton, J. W. 2003. Cartographic Rationality and the Politics of Geosurveillance and Security. Cartography and Geographic Information Science 30, (2): 135-48.

Crampton, J. W. 2001. Maps as social constructions: Power, communication, and visualization. Progress in Human Geography 25, (2): 235-52.

Crang, M. 2003. The hair in the gate: The visuality and geographical knowledge. Antipode 35: 238-43.

Curry, M. R. 1997. The Digital Individual and the Private Realm. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 87, (4): 681-99.

Dobson, J. E., and P. F. Fisher. 2003. Geoslavey. IEEE Technology and Society Magazine Spring: 47-52.

 

Edney, M. H. 1997. Mapping the empire: The geographical construction of British India. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

 

Edney, M. H. 1999. Reconsidering Enlightenment geography and map-making: Reconnaissance, mapping, archive . in Geography and Enlightenment. eds C. W. J. Withers, and D. N. Livingstone, 165-98. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

 

Elwood, S. A. 2006. Beyond cooptation or resistance: Urban spatial politics, community organizations, and GIS-based spatial narratives. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 92, (6): 323-41.

Elwood, S. A., and H. Leitner. 1998. GIS and community based planning: Exploring the diversity of neighborhood perspectives and needs. Cartography and Geographic Information Systems 25: 77-88.

Gilbert, M. R., and M. Masucci. 2004. Moving Beyond "Gender and GIS" to a Feminist Perspectives on Information Technologies: The impact of welfare reform on women’s IT needs. Chapter 21 in A companion to feminist geography. eds J. Seager, and L. Nelson, 305-21. Blackwell.

 

Graves, Steven M. Landscapes of predation, landscapes of neglect: A locational analysis of payday lenders and banks. The Professional Geographer. 2003; 55(3):303-317.

 

Harley, J. B. 1988. Maps, knowledge, and power. in The iconography of landscape: Essays on the symbolic representation, design, and use of past environments. eds D. E. Cosgrove, and S. Daniels, 277-312. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Harris, Trevor M., and Daniel Weiner. 1998. Empowerment, marginalization and community-integrated GIS. Cartography and Geographic Information Science 25, no. 2: 67-76.

Harris, Trevor M., Daniel Weiner, Timothy Warner, and Richard Levin. 1995. Pursuing Social Goals Though Participatory GIS: Redressing South Africa's Historical Political Ecology. Chapter 9 in Ground Truth: The Social Implications of Geographic Information Systems. ed John Pickles, 196-222. Guilford Press.

Harris, Leila and Harrower, Mark. ACME: An international e-journal for critical geographies Special issue on Critical Cartographies. 2005.

 

Hoeschele, Wolfgang. Geographic Information Engineering and social ground truth in Attappadi, Kerala State, India. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 2000; 90(2):293-321.

 

Knigge, LaDona and Cope, Meghan. Grounded visualization: integrating the analysis of qualitative and quantitative data through grounded theory and visualization. Environment and Planning A. 2006; 38(11):2021-2037.

 

Kwan, M.-P. 2002a. Is GIS for women? Reflections on the critical discouse in the 1990s. Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography 9, (3): 271-79.

 

Kwan, Mei-Po. 1999. Gender and individual access to urban opportunities: a study using space-time measures. Professional Geographer 51, no. 2: 210-227.

Kwan, M.-P. 2002a. Feminist visualization: Re-envisioning GIS as a method in feminist geographic research. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 92, (4): 645-61.

Lawson, V. 1995. The  politics of  difference: Examining the quantitative/qualitative dualism in post-structuralist feminist research. The Professional Geographer 47, (4): 449-57.

McLafferty, S. L. 2002. Mapping women's worlds: Knowledge, power, and the bounds of GIS. Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography 9, (3): 263-69.

McLafferty, S. L. 2005. Women and GIS: Geospatial technologies and feminist geographies. Cartographica 40, (4): 37-45.

Miller, Roger. 1995. Beyond method, beyond ethics: integrating social theory into GIS and GIS into social theory. Cartography and Geographic Information Science 22, no. 1: 98-103.

Nash, C. 1994. Remapping the body/land: New cartographies of identity, gender, and landscape in Ireland. Ch.10 in Writing Women and Space: Colonial and Postcolonial Geographies. eds A. Blunt, and G. Rose, 227-50. New York and London: Guilford Press.

 

Nash, C. 1996. Reclaiming vision: Looking at landscape and the body. Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography 3, (2): 149-70.

 

Pain, R. 2004. Social geography: participatory research. Progress in Human Geography 28, (5): 652-63.

Pavlovskaya, M. E. 2002. Mapping urban change and changing GIS: Other views of economic restructuring. Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography 9, (3): 281-89.

Pavlovskaya, M. E. 2006. Theorizing with GIS: A tool for critical geographies? Environment and Planning A 38, (11): 2003-20. (see my page for pdf)

 

Pickles, J., ed. 1995. Ground Truth: The Social Implications of Geographic Information Systems. New York: Guilford Press.

 

Pickles, J. 2004.  A History of Spaces: Cartographic Reason, Mapping, and the Geo-Coded World.Routledge.

 

Roberts, S. M., and R. H. Schein. 1995a. Earth shattering: Global imagery and GIS. in Ground Truth: The Social Implications of Geographic Information Systems. ed J. Pickles, 223-40. Guilford Press.

Robbins, P., and Maddock. 2000. Interrogating land cover categories: Metaphor and method in remote sensing. Cartography and Geographic Information Science 27, (4).

Rocheleau, Dianne. 1995. Maps, Numbers, Text, and Context: Mixing Methods in Feminist Political Ecology. Professional Geographer 47, no. 4: 458-66.

Rose, G. 1992. Geography as a science of observation: The landscape, the gaze, and masculinity. In Driver, F. and Rose, G., editors, Nature and science: Essays in the history of geographical knowledge, Historical Geography Research Series, Number 28, pp. 8-18. London: Historical Geography Research Group.

Rundstrom, R. 1995. GIS, indigenous people, and epistemological diversity. Cartography and Geographic Information Systems 22, (1): 45-57.

Schuurman, N. 2000. Trouble in the heartland: GIS and its critics in the 1990s. Progress in Human Geography 24, (4): 569-90.

Schuurman, N. 2002. Women and technology in geography: A cyborg manifesto for GIS. The Canadian Geographer 46, (3): 262-65.

Schuurman, Nadine. Critical GIS: Theorizing an emerging science. Cartographica. 2001; 36(4):1-108.

 

Schuurman, Nadine. Formalization matters: Critical GIS and ontology research. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 2006; 96(4):726-739.

 

Schuurman, N., and G. Pratt. 2002. Care of the subject: Feminism and critiques of GIS. Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography 9, (3): 291-99.

 

Seager, J. 2003. The Penguin Atlas of Women in the World revised edition. 3d  ed. Penguin.

Sheppard, Eric. 1993. Automated geography: what kind of geography for what kind of society? Professional Geographer 45: 457-60.

Sheppard, E. S. 2005. Knowledge production through critical GIS: Geneology and prospects. Cartographica. Special Issue Critical GIS, Harvey, F., M-P. Kwan, and M.Pavlovskaya, Eds.  40, (4): 5-21.

Smith, N. 1992. History and philosophy of geography: Real wars, theory wars. Progress in Human Geography 16, (257-271).

Sparke, M. 1998. A map that roared and the original atlas: Canada, cartography, and the narration of nation. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 88, (3): 463-95.

 

St.Martin, K. 2001. Making space for community resource management in fisheries. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 91, (1): 122-42.

 

St.Martin, K. 2006. The impact of ‘community’ on fisheries management in the U.S. Northeast. Geoforum 37(2) 169-184.

 

St.Martin, Kevin. Quantitative and critical GIS methods to foster community participation in natural resource management. The Professional Geographer. forthcoming.

 

St.Martin, Kevin and Wing, John. The discourse and discipline of GIS. Cartographica. 2007; 42(3).

 

Sui, D. Z. 2000. Visuality, aurality, and shifting metaphors of the geographical thought in the late twentieth century. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 90, (2): 322-43.