Open AccessQueering Geographic Information information Systems
Author(s) -
Maria Dada
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
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Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2245-7755
DOI - 10.7146/aprja.v8i1.115415
Subject(s) - governmentality , performative utterance , construct (python library) , narrative , sociology , neoliberalism (international relations) , meaning (existential) , reading (process) , subject (documents) , subjectivity , geographic information system , epistemology , politics , linguistics , computer science , social science , geography , cartography , political science , world wide web , philosophy , law , programming language
What’s the relationship between GIS and the political subject? In an effort to address this question, this paper traces the movement from the map to GIS. The map is shown to be the performative utterance of the state, one that supports its national discourse and narrative. GIS, on the other hand, is shown to be a device of neoliberal governmentality, its non-representational economic practices, divided discourse and subjectivities. Despite the seemingly hopeless situation surrounding GIS, however, certain simulation and modelling practices are attempting to construct subjectivities out of economic neoliberalism’s fractured narratives. They do this by reading meaning into otherwise mathematical datasets and models. These practices could form a basis for queering GIS.