This document summarizes Jen Jack Gieseking's presentation on queer spatial methods. It discusses using mixed qualitative and quantitative data to have conversations across datasets. It also discusses using multiple tools from digital humanities and social data sciences to allow for more expression. The presentation outlines using mental mapping, GIS, interactive online maps, and mixed analytics to hold tension between data. It provides a case study of mapping lesbian and queer women's spaces in New York City from 1983 to 2008. The goal is queer interventions in mapping that challenge norms.
2. What the map cuts up, the story cuts across.
- Michel de Certeau (YR)
What stories cut up, the maps cut across.
- Jen Jack Gieseking (2015)
@jgieseking
3. …“scientificity” between mixed datasets, including qualitative and
quantitative data, when placing them in conversation.
…choosing tools for digital humanities (DH) and/or social data sciences
(SDS) project by working in conversation across multiple platforms.
Queer
In(ter)ventions
…multiple intelligences of data collection and analysis to afford more
expression in conversations with participants.
Holding tension between…
@jgieseking
4. An Introduction: Mapping, Queer and Otherwise
I: Mental Mapping
II: GIS & Spatial Statistics
III: GeoWeb / Interactive GIS Online
Discussion: Queer Interventions in Mapping
Case: Lesbian-Queer New York
Methods & Analytics:
An
Outline
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6. >> Gardner’s Frames Of Mind: The
Theory Of Multiple Intelligences (1993)
From Hayden (1997): “Cognitive maps of Los Angeles as
perceived by predominantly Anglo American residents of
Westwood” from the LA Dept of Planning 1971
Spatial
Cognition
• Tolman’s “Cognitive Maps in Rats & Men” (1948)
• Lynch’s The Image of the City (1960)
• Wood’s Power of Maps (1992)
Mental mapping as the representation of a individual
or group’s cognitive map through hand sketching or
computer-based design, including information,
emotions, and ideas associated with them, whether
real and/or imagined. -Gieseking (2013)
7. Critical
GIS
• The reproduction of political, social, and economic inequalities through
spatial information technologies and the practices associated with them
• Related to and/or inclusive of conversations regarding geodata, spatial
temporal modeling, participatory GIS, feminist GIS, mapping 2.0,
neogeography, volunteered GIS
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10. • 1979 “ghettos” --> 1983
“neighborhoods”
• Gays linked to patterns of
gentrification
• LGBTQ people are most often
associated with places such as bars,
neighborhoods, and cities
• Consistent claim to territoriality and
publics as pathway to LGBTQ
liberation
Urban Geographies of
Sexualities
Castells (1983)
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11. • “Invisible”
• Possess less capital and power
than men / rent longer and buy
later heightens dispossession
• Associated with a narrative of fear
of the city and fear of public space
• Lesbian neighborhoods are more
identified as “spatial
concentrations” LesbianHerstoryArchives.org. 2012.
Urban Geographies of
Women
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13. • 47 self-identified lesbians & queer women
came out between 1983-2008, 1/3 women of color, 1/2
from NYC
Alison Bechdel 1987
Methods
• 22 group interviews
mixed-methods: within & across generation interviews, mental
maps, artifact sharing
• Archival research (Lesbian Herstory Archives)
382 organizational records, 25 years of publications
19. I don’t go [to Manhattan] anymore. …
Brooklyn is really busy. Ginger’s [Bar] is
sort of at the center…and I have lesbians
radiating out from Ginger’s [makes
starburst motions with hands], ‘cause,
you know, that’s kind of how I saw
Brooklyn.
But…it’s not like, “Oh I go home to my
queer neighborhood.” Like, we don’t
have that. …it’s like we’re constantly
moving in and out of queer and straight
and lesbians spaces and mostly we’re in
kind of, like [sighs]…spaces that are
heteronormative or whatever you want to
call it. So I wouldn’t say I really have a
queer community. And I felt like it’s kind
of failing on my part. - Sally ‘95
Lesbian-Queer
City
20. Lesbians and queer women’s spaces are less territorial and instead
fragmented and fleeting.
Lesbians and queer women carry their spaces in and on the body.
I call these productions of lesbian-queer spaces constellations.
The processes and practices underlying the production of
constellations inform my new research of the Queer Public Archive.
Queer New York
Queer New York:
Geographies of Lesbians, Dykes, and Queer Women, 1983-2008
22. Color = Participant Year of Coming Out
Red = Cassie ’83 (Latina, middle class, from NYC)
Blue = Susan ’92 (white, middle class)
Green = Sally ’96 (white, upper-middle class)
Brown = Shawn ’98 (black, middle class, from NYC)
Purple = Holly ’03 (white, working-middle class)
Orange = Beth ’06 (white, working-middle class)
MANHATTAN
QUEENS
BROOKLYN
West
Village
East
Village
Park
Slope
Bed-
Stuy
Central Park
WilliamsburgChelsea
Lesbian-Queer
Gentrification
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25. Range of
GIS Tools
Level of difficulty
Google
Maps
Non-proprietaryre:access/controlofdata
CartoDB MapBox
OSM
ArcGIS
QGIS
Note: colors just to make more readable
26. QGIS
Is…
•Quantum GIS @ qgis.org
•F/OSS is free & open source software - accessible by and for public
•Fills gap between ArcGIS and GMaps
•Free and smart GIS practicum: http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/geoportal/
practicum/ ℅ Frank Donnelly - taught in six 1.5 hour classes
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29. Opaque is
Being Polite
• Spatial statistics, stats, and data
visualizations, et al., can…fail
you
• On the left: regression analyses
between census property values
and number of lesbian-queer
places per tract reveals
“groupings”
• For more, see http://
jgieseking.org/opaque-is-being-
polite/
@jgieseking
31. Mapbox
Is…
•Mapbox Studio (was TileMill) can be found at mapbox.com
•F/OSS is free & open source software with pay as you go storage
•Interactive geoweb tech - fills gap btw QGIS & GMaps
•Heavy design component in CartoCSS & code for participatory qualities
•Training: TileMill’s “Crashcourse” in one day + learn CSS as you go
35. …“scientificity” between mixed datasets, including qualitative and
quantitative data, when placing them in conversation.
…choosing tools for digital humanities (DH) and/or social data sciences
(SDS) project by working in conversation across multiple platforms.
Queer
Inte(rve)ntions
…multiple intelligences of data collection and analysis to afford more
expression in conversations with participants.
Holding tension between…
@jgieseking
36. Friendships between 7,188
users of the Facebook group
“Queer Exchange” over one
year. 2013.
Relationships between one
users’ 1,512 friends on
Facebook. 2013.
Moment of
Big Data
37. Friendships between 7,188
users of the Facebook group
“Queer Exchange” over one
year. 2013.
Relationships between one
users’ 1,512 friends on
Facebook. 2013.
Moment of
Big Data
38. Friendships between 7,188
users of the Facebook group
“Queer Exchange” over one
year. 2013.
Relationships between one
users’ 1,512 friends on
Facebook. 2013.
Moment of
Big Data
40. Geography as More
than GIS
Geography reveals and is revealed by history, culture,
political economy, and so on.
41. …“scientificity” between mixed datasets, including qualitative and
quantitative data, when placing them in conversation.
…choosing tools for digital humanities (DH) and/or social data sciences
(SDS) project by working in conversation across multiple platforms.
Queer
Interventions
…multiple intelligences of data collection and analysis to afford more
expression in conversations with participants.
Holding tension between…
@jgieseking
42. What the map cuts up, the story cuts across.
- Michel de Certeau (YR)
What stories cut up, the maps cut across.
- Jen Jack Gieseking (2015)
@jgieseking