Document Type
Article
Department
American Studies
Publication Date
2017
Abstract
In the last decade, conversations around queering of GIScience emerged. Drawing on literature from feminist and queer critical GIS, with special attention to the under‐examined political economy of GIS, I suggest that the critical project of queering all of GIS, both GIScience and GISystems, requires not just recognition of the labour and lives of queers and research in geographies of sexualities. Based upon a queer feminist political economic critique and evidenced in my teaching critical GIS at two elite liberal arts colleges, I argue that the “status quo” between ESRI and geography as a field must be interrupted. Extending a critical GIS focus beyond data structures and data ethics, I argue that geographic researchers and instructors have a responsibility in queering our choice and production of software, algorithms, and code alike. I call this production and choice of democratic, accessible, and useful software by, for, and about the needs of its users, good enough software.
Publication Title
Canadian Geographer/Le Géographe Canadien
Volume
62
Issue
1
First Page
55
Last Page
66
DOI
10.17605/OSF.IO/DA7H4
Creative Commons License
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Comments
Published as:
Jack Gieseking. “Operating Anew: Queering GIS with Good Enough Software.” Canadian Geographer/Le Géographe Canadien 62, no. 1 (2018.): 55-66.
DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/DA7H4
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