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Notes toward a critical history of cartography, part 1 | Open Geography

▻https://opengeography.wordpress.com/2015/06/01/notes-toward-a-critical-history-of-cartography-part-1

Initiative très intéressante, à suivre pour notre bouquin sur la carto radicale.

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In the past few months I’ve agreed to develop a course called “A Critical History of Cartography” for our department’s new Masters and Certificate in Digital Mapping. This initiative, which we call New Maps Plus, will offer interested students the ability to earn a Certificate or a Masters of Science from the University of Kentucky in subjects covering digital mapping, GIS, the geoweb, and programming for online maps.

One of the things I proposed for this course was to develop a Reader in Critical Cartography, which would collect in one place, with short commentary, the people, events, maps and theory that had a profound influence on the way we think about maps, or conversely, the way maps may have made us see the world in new ways. This book would then be the assigned reading for the course but would also I hope be of interest to a wider readership.

To that end I’ve developed (with my colleague Matt Zook) the following initial schema for the book and the course. The latter is 10 weeks long so there are ten subject headings. The idea would be to pose the question of what it means to approach maps critically, with a view to looking historically to inform the present, a not uncommon technique I’ve used before.

There are a variety of ways of going about this. One would be to take maps (or people or events) that were radical at the time and recognized as such, even if only by those involved. So this would include the work of JB (Brian) Harley who wrote against the grain of cartographic received wisdom. This kind of work changed the way we understand mapping.

This could then be contrasted with what we now understand to be radical, or is often held up as radical. This could include the work of Marie Tharp (ocean floor mapping) or John Snow (cholera mapping of London). These maps “changed the world” as the Guardian puts it. But, they need our interpretive spin to recognize it as such, and thereby this falls within that category of books that are needed to understand what happened. There’s even a book with that title: the map that changed the world (about the first complete geology map).

New Maps Plus initiative - University of Kentucky
▻http://newmapsplus.uky.edu

The proposed New Maps Plus initiative is based in the Department of Geography at the University of Kentucky and entails a completely online graduate certificate and a master’s degree in digital mapping to educate students in a range of web-based systems for producing online geovisualizations and applications. The first classes in the graduate certificate will begin in October 2015.

#cartographie_radicale #cartographie_critique

Orion Magazine | Defending Darwin
▻https://orionmagazine.org/article/defending-darwin

I’M OFTEN ASKED what I do for a living. My answer, that I am a professor at the University of Kentucky, inevitably prompts a second question: “What do you teach?” Responding to such a question should be easy and invite polite conversation, but I usually brace for a negative reaction. At least half the time the person flinches with disapproval when I answer “evolution,” and often the conversation simply terminates once the “e-word” has been spoken. Occasionally, someone will retort: “But there is no evidence for evolution.” Or insist: “It’s just a theory, so why teach it?”

C’est dur de vivre parmi des c... .

#créationnisme #usa #éducation #évolution #biologie

Interactive and Multivariate Choropleth Maps with D3 | Sack | Cartographic Perspectives

▻http://www.cartographicperspectives.org/index.php/journal/article/view/cp78-sack-et-al/1359

Interactive and Multivariate Choropleth Maps with D3

Carl M. Sack, University of Wisconsin–Madison | cmsack@wisc.edu

Richard G. Donohue, University of Kentucky | rgdonohue@uky.edu

Robert E. Roth, University of Wisconsin–Madison | reroth@wisc.edu
ASSUMED SKILLS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The following tutorial describes how to make an interactive choropleth map using the D3 (Data-Driven Documents) web mapping library (d3js.org). This tutorial is based on a laboratory assignment created in the fall of 2014 for an advanced class titled Interactive Cartography and Geovisualization at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. This is the second of two On the Horizon tutorials on web mapping and extends a previous tutorial that used the Leaflet JavaScript library (see Donohue et al. 2013; dx.doi.org/10.14714/CP76.1248). Fully commented source code for both tutorials is available on GitHub (github.com/uwcart/cartographic-perspectives). All code is distributed under a Creative Commons 3.0 license and available for unconditional use, with the exception of the files in the lib directory, for which certain license conditions are required as described in the file LICENSE.txt.

This tutorial assumes literacy in JavaScript, HTML, and CSS programming for the web. In particular, you should be comfortable with the manipulation of JavaScript arrays and objects. Free tutorials and reference documentation for these languages are available at www.w3schools.com. Additionally, D3 makes heavy use of jQuery-style DOM element selection and dot syntax (jquery.com). It is further assumed that you are familiar with in-browser development tools such as those provided by Google Chrome (developers.google.com/chrome-developer-tools), Mozilla Firefox (developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools), and Firebug (getfirebug.com). An important limitation of D3 is its incompatibility with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser prior to version 9; use of Internet Explorer below version 10 is not recommended. Finally, the tutorial assumes you have set up a development server running either remotely or as a localhost. MAMP for Mac (www.mamp.info/en) and WAMP for Windows (www.wampserver.com/en) are useful for this.

#cartographie #D3 #séliologie #choroplètes

La réunion annuelle des géographes américains se prépare, et il semble que ce sera un truc vraiment bien. De nombreuses sessions sont en trains de s’organiser, ça promet d’être un extraordinaire cocktail de géographies critiques et expériementales

Call for Papers (CFP) for the Association of American Geographers 2013 Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA

Session Title: Postneoliberalism? Neoliberal regulation in the continuing crisis: opportunities for change or just more of the same?

Session organizers: Hugh Deaner, University of Kentucky and Christopher Oliver, University of Kentucky

Neoliberalism is in crisis - or even “dead” - so say a number of academics, editorialists, and public intellectuals (Dumenil and Levy 2011; Klein 2008; Krugman 2009; Magdoff and Foster 2009; Smith 2011; Stiglitz 2008; Wallerstein 2008). Some argue that neoliberalism’s demise represents opportunities to push social regulatory policy in the direction of new and more effective forms of managed capitalism (e.g., Keynesian approaches) (Krugman 2009, 2012; Magdoff and Foster 2009; Stiglitz 2010), thereby reversing the four decade-long movement towards unfettered market-based regulation. While these claims are sometimes monolithic in nature, in other instances writers have made even more grandiose proclamations that the on-going global economic crisis has created new opportunities for changing social regulatory frameworks and, more generally, that a unique historical moment has unfolded offering various potentialities for forging a new ideological framework to social governance (e.g. Klein 2008).

Critical geographers (and critical social scientists) also have attempted to take up these issues: some argue for a possible “postneoliberal” turn, while others question the efficacy of such concepts; and still others ask whether such a transition - or radical re-envisioning - of the various neoliberal forms of social regulation is even possible (Brenner, Peck, and Theodore 2010a, 2010b; Harvey 2009; Hobsbawm 2008; Peck, Theodore, and Brenner 2009; Smith 2011). Whether or not neoliberal forms of social regulation have entered their “zombie” phase, or if changes can lead - or have led- to new forms of counter-neoliberalization is an important - and empirical - question (cf. Brenner, Peck, and Theodore 2010; Fine 2010; Harman 2010; Peck 2010). Further, whose neoliberalism (and to what end and what consequence) is of equal import (cf. Harvey 2009).

In regard to these concerns, we ask the following: Since the emergence of the 2007-2008 crisis, has there been a shift in the form, content, and practices of neoliberal institutions of regulatory governance? And if so, has this change served to lessen or diminish the role of market-based strategies of regulation, or has change merely furthered existing forms of neoliberal governance (e.g., “zombie” neoliberalism) - or has this change strengthened or even emboldened new forms of neoliberal regulatory practices (cf. Peck, Theodore, and Brenner 2012).

We seek papers that explore these issues through a number of possible theoretical and conceptual perspectives and substantive themes:

a) Theoretical discussions which examine the consequences or potentialities of various forms of restructuring within neoliberal regulatory approaches - whether global, regional, national, or local- and what, if any, effect the current and on-going crisis has played (or is playing) in restructuring these conditions (e.g., Is a Polanyian “double movement” taking place - or can it take place - within this crisis and under the current social regulatory conditions?);

b) Conceptual-based illustrations of changes in neoliberal forms of governance through detailed comparative work of varying scales and scope (e.g., Has the current crisis led to a dramatic shift in conceptual understandings of post-Fordist regulation?);

c) Single or comparative empirical-based case studies that chart shifts in neoliberal forms of regulatory governance (e.g., How has the current crisis effected the regulation of housing markets in the US and Europe?).
Though the range of possible substantive themes for the papers is open, some potential areas of work might include:

Neoliberalization/financialization of nature

Green economy policy and practices

Governance and sustainability practices

ban policy including regulation of fiscal policy

Housing policy and the regulation of mortgage markets

The regulation of financial markets

The rise (and fall) of shadow banking

Labor market regulation

Legal regulation of markets

Economic policy changes and their effects

Education policy including public-private partnerships or marketization of educational instruction

The Euro crisis and the crises in Spain and Greece (and other countries)
Please submit abstracts of no more than 250 words to Hugh Deaner athugh.deaner@uky.edu<mailto:csol222@uky.edu> by October 15, 2012.

References:

Brenner, Neil, Nik Theodore, and Neil Brenner. 2010a. “After neoliberalization?” Globalizations. 7: 327-345.

___. 2010b. "Variegated neoliberalization: Geographies, modalities, pathways. Global Networks. 10: 1-41.

Dumenil, Gerard and Dominique Levy. 2011. The Crisis of Neoliberalism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University.

Fine, Ben. 2010. “Zombieeconomics: The Living Death of the Dismal Science.” In The Rise and Fall of Neoliberalism: The Collapse of an Economic Order. Pp. 153-170. London: Zed Books.

Harman, Chris. 2010. Zombie Capitalism: Global Crisis and the Relevance of Marx. Chicago, IL: Haymarket Books.

Harvey, David. 2009. “The crisis and the consolidation of class power: Is this really the end of neoliberalism?” Counterpunch. Available at: ►http://www.counterpunch.org/2009/03/13/is-this-really-the-end-of-neoliberalism. Accessed September 28, 2012.

Klein, Naomi. 2008. “Wall street crisis should be for neoliberalism what fall of Berlin Wall was for communism.” Lecture at the University of Chicago. Available at: ►http://www.democracynow.org/2008/10/6/naomi_klein. Accessed September 23, 2012.

Krugman, Paul. 2009. Return to Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008. New York: W. W. Norton and Company.

___. 2012. End This Depression Now. New York: W. W. Norton and Company.

Hobsbawm, Eric. 2008. “Is the intellectual opinion of capitalism changing?” Today program, BBC Radio. Available at: ►http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7677000/7677683.stm. Accessed September 24, 2012.

Magdoff, Fred and John Bellemy Foster. 2009. The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences. New York: Monthly Review.

Peck, Jamie. 2010. “Zombie neoliberalism and the ambidextrous state.” Theoretical Criminology. 14: 104-110.

Peck, Jamie, Nik Theodore, and Neil Brenner. 2009. “Postneoliberalism and its Malcontents.” Antipode. 41: 94-116.

___.2012. “Neoliberalism resurgent? Market rule after the Great Recession” The South Atlantic Quarterly. 111:265-287.

Smith, Neil. 2011. “Cities after neoliberalization?” Paper available at: ►http://neil-smith.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Neil.Smith_.AfterNeoliberalism.pdf. Accessed September 20, 2012.

Stiglitz, Joseph. 2008. “The end of neoliberalism?” Available at: ►http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/the-end-of-neo-liberalism-. Accessed October 1, 2012.

__. 2010. Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Shrinking of the World Economy. New York: W. W. Norton and Company.

Wallerstein, Immanuel. 2008. The demise of neoliberal globalization. Available at:►http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2008/wallerstein010208.html. Accessed September 27, 2012.