2014-2015 Green College Urban Studies Series
Advancing the right to the city through Critical GIS
Professor Rina Ghose, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Tuesday, May 28th, 2019, 1:30 to 3:00 PM
Geography Room 229
In an era of increasing racial, economic, political and environmental injustices, cities are increasingly ‘spaces of despair’ for many of their residents. Claiming and reshaping urban spaces to create a just, sustainable city requires access to spatial information so that spatial strategies can be formulated. Through nuanced, bottom-up spatial knowledge production, Critical GIS offers opportunities to advance spatial planning, organization and activism among grassroots groups. Through community-engaged research, I examine the ways such contestations are facilitated by Community Information Systems, open GIS, geoweb, and VGI.
Rina Ghose is Professor of Geography and Urban Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She specializes in critical GIS, urban geography, political ecology and is well versed in qualitative and quantitative research methods. She has published over fifty articles in journals such as the Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Progress in Human Geography, Antipode, Urban Geography, Cartographica, Environment and Planning A, Geoforum, and many others. Her research has been funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation.
This event is made possible by the support of UBC Urban Studies.
