Pages from 76-Book Manuscript-355-1-10-20200810.pdf (697.35 kB)
The role of data collection, mapping and analysis in the reproduction of refugeeness and migration discourses: reflections from the Refugee Spaces project
chapter
posted on 2020-03-24, 12:30 authored by Giovanna Astolfo, Ricardo Marten Caceres, Falli Palaiologou, Camillo Boano, Ed ManleyBook description: 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.
Funding
The Refugee Spaces data project and platform were funded by The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, University College London, through the Materialization Grant over the period 2016-18.
History
School
- Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Published in
Mapping Crisis: Participation, Datafication, and Humanitarianism in the Age of Digital MappingPages
119 - 142Publisher
University of London PressVersion
- VoR (Version of Record)
Rights holder
© Doug Specht and The AuthorsPublisher statement
This is an Open Access Article. It is published by the University of London Press under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence (CC BY-NC-ND). Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2020-09-14Copyright date
2020ISBN
9781912250332; 9781912250387Publisher version
Language
- en
Editor(s)
Doug SpechtDepositor
Dr Falli Palaiologou. Deposit date: 21 March 2020Usage metrics
Categories
No categories selectedLicence
Exports
RefWorks
BibTeX
Ref. manager
Endnote
DataCite
NLM
DC