THE INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF CRISIS MAPPERS
Working together to create a syllabus for a course on crisis mapping
Dear Folks,
Please reply to this discussion thread with any books, articles, projects, ideas, weblinks, blogs, or sub-topics that you think would be important for us to consider as we work together to create the first university course on crisis mapping.
Draft Course Agenda:
A. What is Crisis Mapping?
B. A History of Crisis Mapping and Related Fields of Inquiry
C. Crisis Map Sourcing
D. Visualization
E. Analytics
F. Response
G. The Future of Crisis Mapping
Readings:
Introductory/Theoretical/Cross Disciplinary/Historical:
“Toward Spatially Integrated Social Science.” Goodchild, Michael F., Luc Anselin, Richard P. Applebaum, and Barbara Herr Harthorn. 2000. International Regional Science Review 23:139-159.
“Vicarious Violence: Spatial Effects on Southern Lynchings, 1890-1919.” Tolnay, Stewart E., Glenn Deane, and E.M. Beck. 1996. American Journal of Sociology 102(3):788-815.
Video Introduction to Crisis Mapping, on iRevolution, by Patrick Meier.
“The Future of Spatial Analysis in the Social Sciences.” Anselin, Luc. 1999. Geographic Information Sciences 5(2):67-76.
The Spatial Turn: Interdisciplinary perspectives. Barney Warf and Santa Arias, Eds. Routeledge 2008.
Crisis Map Sourcing
Mapping the News: Case Studies in GIS and Journalism. 2003. D. Herzog.
Cederman, Lars-Erik, Jan Ketil Rød & Nils Weidmann 2006. "Geo-Referencing of Ethnic Groups: Creating a New Dataset." Presented at the Oslo GROW-net Workshop, Oslo, 10–11 February.
Raleigh, Clionadh & Håvard Hegre, 2005. ‘Introducing ACLED: An Armed Conflict Location and Event Dataset’. Paper presented to the conference on "Disaggregating the Study of Civil War and Transnational Violence", University of California Institute of Global Conflict and Cooperation, San Diego, CA, 7–8 March.
Restrepo, Jorge & Spagat, Michael & Vargas, Juan F, 2004. "The Severity of the Colombian Conflict: Cross-Country Dataset versus New Micro Data," CEPR Discussion Papers 4571, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
Jen Ziemke. “From Battles to Massacres: Explaining Spatial and Temporal Variation in Civilian Targeting During the Angolan Civil War, 1961-2002,” Midwest Political Science Association Meeting (MPSA), Chicago, IL: April 3, 2009.
Visualization:
“Exploring Spatial Data Visually,” in Quantitative Geography. Fotheringham, Brundson and Charlton, 2000. London: Sage Publications, Chapter 4.
"WarViews: Visualizing and Animating Geographic Data on Conflict." Nils B. Weidmann and Doreen Kuse. http://www.icr.ethz.ch/research/warviews
Knowledge Cartography: Software Tools and Mapping Techniques. Okada, A., Buckingham Shum, S. and Sherborne, T., Eds. Springer: Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing Series: Oct. 2008.
Analytics:
Stathis Kalyvas and Matthew Adam Kocher. The Dynamics of Violence in Vietnam: An Analysis of the Hamlet Evaluation System. (HES). Journal of Peace Research 46(3): 2009.
Balcells, Laia, 2007, `Rivalry and Revenge: Killing Civilians in the Spanish Civil War', Working Paper No. 233, CEACS-Juan March Institute.
Buhaug, Halvard & Jan Ketil Rød, 2006. `Local Determinants of African Civil Wars, 1970-2001', Political Geography 25(3): 315-335.
Murshed, S. Mansoob & Scott Gates, 2006. "Spatial Horizontal Inequality and the Maoist Insurgency in Nepal" in Ravi Kanbur, Anthony Venables & Guanghua Wan, eds, Spatial Disparities in Human Development. Tokyo: United Nations University Press.
"Ecological Correlations and the Behavior of Individuals." W. Robinson. 1950. ASR 15: 351-357.
"Population Size, Concentration, and Civil War: A Geographically Disaggregated Analysis" Havard Hegre & Clionadh Raleigh. June 1, 2007. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 4243. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=991435
Buhaug, Halvard, and Kristian Skrede Gleditsch. 2008. "Contagion or Confusion? Why Conflicts Cluster in Space." International Studies Quarterly 52 (2):215-233.
Ziemke, Jennifer J., 2008. `From Battles to Massacres', PhD thesis, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Michael K. Steinberg, Carrie Height, Rosemary Mosher and Mathew Bampton. "Mapping Massacres: GIS and State Terror in Guatemala." Geoforum 37(1): 2005.
“Vicarious Violence: Spatial Effects on Southern Lynchings, 1890-1919.” Tolnay, Stewart E., Glenn Deane, and E.M. Beck. 1996. American Journal of Sociology 102(3):788-815.
G.P. Patil and C. Tallie. "Geographic and Network Surveillance via Scan Statistics for Critical Area Detection." Statistical Science: 2003.
Response:
Beyond Maps: GIS and Decision Making in Local Government. 2000. J. O’Looney.
GIS in Public Policy: Using Geographic Information for More Effective Government. 2000. R.W. Greene.
Jin, Yan., Pang, Augustine. and Cameron, Glen. "Integrated Crisis Mapping: Toward a Publics-Based, Emotion-Driven Conceptualization in Crisis Communication" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Dresden International Congress Centre, Dresden, Germany, 2009-05-25
Replies to This Discussion
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Permalink Reply by Martin Dirksen-Fischer on -
Dear Jen,
Such a great list of articles, including Your own work. Still: Maybe it could be interesting for Your future students to be aware of the WHO and it s GIS-program and crisis responses at: http://www.who.int/health_mapping/en/
Yours
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Permalink Reply by jen ziemke on -
Dear Martin,
Many thanks for alerting us to this project. I am so happy to expand the breadth of the "crisis mapping" syllabus to go beyond research on war in political science, which is my background. Thanks for the insight!
Best,
Jen
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Permalink Reply by Martin Dirksen-Fischer on
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Dear Jen,
Thank You for Your kind words. Talking about Public Health: This article might be useful as well:
"Conflating Boundaries to Envision Urban Public Health by Shriya Malhotra, MA" published in
Parsons Journal for Information Mapping Volume I,Issue 3
online at :
http://piim.newschool.edu/journal/issues/2009/03/pdfs/ParsonsJourna...
From the Abstract: "This article explores the important role of visual and spatial analysis in addressing Urban Public Health needs. It focuses particularly on the need for multidimensional approach that incorporates design, visualization and aesthetics to create evidence-based arguments. It also explores the role of technologies, such as geographic information systems (GIS), in visualizing epidemiological data and the important findings that may be extrapolated. "
Yours Martin
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Permalink Reply by Chris Blow on -
Jen, wish that I could point you to an article or two on the design of software systems for Crisis Mapping (interaction design or graphic design), but alas there are none that I am aware of!
So, let me know if you find any. In the meantime I will be digging through your syllabus -- it looks great!
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Permalink Reply by jen ziemke on
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Hi Chris,
Thanks for the message! Happy Holidays,
Jen
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Permalink Reply by Kate Fraser-Smith on -
Hi Jen,
Thought you might be interested in the following book:
R.W. Greene, 2002, "Confronting Catastrophe - A GIS Handbook", ESRI
I've only found one of these types of books, so far. It looks at real life lessons, and how to put the tools of GIS to work in the traditional stages of emergency management: planning, mitigation, preparedeness, response and recovery.
Cheers,
Kate
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Permalink Reply by jen ziemke on
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Hi Kate,
This looks like a must-read for me! I'll put it on the list. Many thanks.
Jen
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Permalink Reply by jen ziemke on
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Just added two new books to the draft syllabus, that I may use for a forthcoming course in "Spatial Thinking in the Social Sciences," or "Crisis Mapping." The first is: The Spatial Turn: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. It is "a collection of writings by 13 scholars about geography and space. The term Spatial Turn finds it's origin in the turning of geographical pursuit toward social and historical narratives. It emanates from the social sciences that reconsider space in the context of new dimensions in human geography." Second: Knowledge Cartography: Software Tools and Mapping Techniques. Okada, A., Buckingham Shum, S. and Sherborne, T., Eds. Springer: Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing Series: Oct. 2008. From the website: "The focus of this book is on the process by which manually crafting interactive, hypertextual maps clarifies one’s own understanding, as well as communicating it. In an information ocean, the primary challenge is to find meaningful patterns around which we can weave plausible narratives. Maps of concepts, discussions and arguments make the connections between ideas tangible and disputable. Part 1 focuses on educational applications in schools and universities, before Part 2 turns to applications in professional communities, but with many cross-cutting themes:
•conceptual frameworks for understanding knowledge cartography
•visual languages, many of which work on both paper and with software
•specialist software, much of it freely available and open source
•case studies reflecting on successes and failures
•ways in which maps can be used both effectively and ineffectively
•examples of how to evaluate maps"
Thoughts welcomed!
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