Tag: landscapes

Geography of race and income shape spatial data gaps in two national participatory science projects

We argue in this paper that such data gaps are not incidental noise but the cumulative outcome of white supremacy culture, colonial land-ordering, and project designs that privilege whiter, more affluent spaces as default sites of scientific value. [continue reading]

Land for AI

We introduce the concepts of data rent and computational rent to name the specific forms of value extraction that emerge when controlling the storage and transmission of digital information and the processing power necessary for AI platforms, such as LLMs, to function. [continue reading]

Navigating digital geographies

We argue that digital geographers need to radically defetishize the construction of spatial data and acknowledge how these black-boxed systems mediate surveillance and capitalist extraction. Rather than taking computational results at face value, we call for methodological transparency and critical engagement, centering the situated, embodied, and political processes that underpin digital spatial knowledge. [continue reading]

National Forgetting in the American South

Using a cultural landscape approach, this study examines all National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) sites in Ouachita Parish, Louisiana, located in the southern United States. The NRHP recognizes sites representative of “our” national heritage by listing them on this registry. From analysis of these records and related archival materials and observations garnered from field visits to select historic sites in the parish, this... [continue reading]

Mapping for Whom?

Scholars have shown that communities of color and low-income communities are most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, and without intervention, scientists will miss localized events in these neighborhoods and these communities might go unrepresented in rainfall models, further exacerbating the disproportionate impact. [continue reading]