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Jeremy
Crampton, PhD
Research Interests: Politics of identity, critical approaches to cartography and GIS, biopolitics and race, and the work of Michel Foucault. My classes are here |
Germany, September 2007 |
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2008. Mapping: A Critical Introduction to GIS and Cartography. Blackwell Publishing. Forthcoming! No, really. 2008. Will Peasants Map? Hyperlinks, Map Mashups and the Future of Information. Chapter in The Hyperlinked Society: Questioning Connections in a Digital Age. Edited by Joseph Turow and Lokman Tsui, University of Michigan Press. 2008. The Role of Geosurveillance and Security in the Politics of Fear. Chapter 24 in Geospatial Technologies and Homeland Security: Research Frontiers and Challenges. Edited by Daniel Z. Sui and Susan L. Cutter, Springer-Verlag. 2007. The Biopolitical Justification for Geosurveillance. Geographical Review, 97(3), 389-403.
2007. Maps, Race and Foucault: Eugenics and Territorialization Following World War I Chapter in Space, Knowledge, and Power. Reviewed in Choice, the influential journal of the American Library Association: The work of French philosopher Foucault is here excavated, translated, interpreted, assessed, and applied. During his life, Foucault indulged critical thinking concerning, especially, social institutions, power, and knowledge. This is apparently the first book to negotiate Foucaults questions placed before the French geography journal Hérodote in the 1970s. The works first section relates essentially to Foucaults writings on space, accompanied by selected Francophone responses (1977) and Anglophone responses (2006). The remainder of the book consists of essays developing context for Foucaults work, translations of several of his essays, and further extension of his work in the shape of nondisciplinary but critical and discursive inquiry. This is a thoughtful and imaginative undertaking, replete with utile index. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. G. J. Martin, emeritus, Southern Connecticut State University Reviewed
in Foucault Studies (December 2007): It seems peculiar
that a collection of essays on Foucault and space has not appeared in
Foucault studies until now. As the editors of Space, Knowledge and
Power: Foucault and Geography note, matters of space permeate much
of Foucault's works. This is not your typical edited collection, however.
While other edited collections have contextually sanitized his works,
the editors of this collection highlight the exchange between Foucault
and the editors of Herodote to ground a reconsideration of Foucault's
questions about space and geography. They seek to examine the ways that
geographers use Foucault's ideas, and to ignite and continue a scholarly
discussion about how to use Foucault's notions of space in the present
moment. At the risk of sounding hackneyed, they provide scholars with
a multi-faceted toolbox, one that reveals Foucault's thinking at this
time in his life and presents translations of essays written by Foucault
and French scholars that were previously unavailable to English audiences,
in an array of essays on how to apply Foucault.
Order Form & Table of Contents
2006.
Online
Mapping Attempts to Increase Voter Participation GeoWorld
Oct. 2006, pp. 18-19. 2005.
Does
a Conspiracy of Silence Aid Map Theft? GeoWorld,
Oct. 2005.
2004. Community Mapping as a Solution to Digital Equity (with Dona Stewart). In WorldMinds, Geographical Perspectives on 100 Problems. Kluwer Academic Press. Edited by Don Janelle, Barney Warf, and Kathy Hansen, pp. 523-527.
2004. This book was published by University of Chicago Press in the USA and Canada, 02/04. Amazon USA Reviewed in Annals of the Association of American Geographers March 2006, by Dan Sui: Crampton argues early in the book that the political is always spatial, and the spatial has been increasingly mediated by cyberspace. Since mapping is necessarily part of our engagement with space, it should therefore be part of our political concerns...I particularly applaud the authors emphasis on the tightening links between the virtual and physical world. His discussion on authenticity is also brilliant and will deepen our understanding of the rampant issues related to identity theft. To those believing in the pursuit of the technological sublime, this book is a further potent reminder that no new technology will solve some problems without creating new ones. It is always refreshing to have a healthy dose of problematics on technological innovations. The American Library Association says: Crampton (anthropology and geography, Georgia State Univ.) presents a philosophical treatise on the social geography of cyberspace, aptly applying the ideas of Foucault and Heidegger, in particular, to the Internet. The author's underlying premise is that maps are not objective confessors of truth, but rather the products of a social world laden with politics in the forms of power, resistance, identity, and community. This notion is extended to the realm of cyberspace. Crampton offers some very interesting insights into cartography and mapping along the way, particularly the underlying agendas of maps and how maps have become less static with the proliferation of mapping software. Another especially strong point is Crampton's discussion of the digital divide in the US as well as globally. At times, the book seems to get lost in detailing the historical and philosophical foundations of the geography of cyberspace, falling short on analyzing the Internet itself. Although the title and introduction may lead readers to expect a more detailed account of the Internet, the book is much more philosophical than empirical. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper level undergraduate and above. Reviewed in First Monday: The great virtue of The Political Mapping of Cyberspace is Cramptons success in adapting preexisting frames for productive thought and conversation around crime mapping and other activities that produce a significant portion of cyberspace. From Foucault, Crampton adopts a method, problematization, applied to his object, the spatial politics of cyberspace...The Political Mapping of Cyberspace is of real and enduring value in thinking about which questions need to be asked and what approaches are useful in demystifying the "silver bullet" spin found in uncritical GIS/GPS promotion. Reviewed in the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) SIGACT News Book Review 2007, Vol. 38(3): an illuminating, innovative and philosophical study of the spatial politics of cyberspace. Presentations
Die
Ziet news story (pdf with all illustrations) and here
(pdf with selected illustrations at Die Zeit). 2007.
"The
Geographical Reinscription of Race" AAG Annual Conference, San
Francisco, April 17-22, 2007. Also discussant
and panelist
on two other sessions. 2007. "Maps, Race and Foucault" Symposium on "Geopolitics" Cambridge University, UK. January 12, 2007. 2006.
"Who Will Win the Elections in Three
Weeks? The Netroots and Web-Based Mapping." (pdf, 4mb). NACIS
annual conference, Madison, WI. October 2006. 2006.
IBG/RGS
Annual Conference. August 29-Spet. 1, 2006. Royal Geographical Society,
London. Special session on "Rethinking Maps." 2006.
GIS and Population Science, workshop at UC
Santa Barbara. July 10-22 2006. 2006.
Can Mapmakers Change the World? The
Hyperlinked Society. Annenberg School for Communication, University
of Pennsylvania. June 9, 2006. 2006.
The Biopolitics of Geosurveillance and Security. Who
Owns Knowledge? Symposium, GMU April 18, 2006. 2006. "Surveillance, Security and Personal Dangerousness." AAAS Annual Conference, St. Louis, MO., 16th Feb. - 20 Feb. 2005.
April Invited lecture at West Virginia University, WV. Racialized
mapping of World War I |
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