Nick Lally

Below are all of the sessions I could find on critical approaches to computation, GIS & cartography, and digital geographies for the upcoming Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers (April 3-7 in DC). Please let me know if I’ve missed anything! I have also put together a more detailed schedule, which includes all presenters’ names and talk titles

The Environmental Politics and Practices of Smart Cities Within smart cities debates, the dominant discourse suggests that smart technologies will improve sustainability, efficiency, and environmental control, yet much of these claims have been taken for granted, furthering post-political urban environmentalism. The Human Geography of the Digital Realm Session Organizer: Carwyn Morris (Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics) Session Sponsor: Digital Geographies Specialty Group Session Type: Paper Session (5 Papers) Association of American Geographers (AAG) Theories of place and space in the digital realm, including those that explore the relationship between the digital and physical realms • Research on the role of digital realm in (re)producing physical places, spaces and communities, or creating new places, spaces and communities, both in the digital realm and outside of it. We particularly welcome contributions that focus on: –       networks as building blocks of place, territory, scale –       networks and power –       the geographical unevenness of network structures –       the sources of cooperation and conflict within networks –       the interconnection of networks across domains (e.g. economic, political, environmental and cultural) –       digital data –       qualitative and quantitative methods to measure networked geographies Please submit abstracts of no more than 250 words, names, affiliations and contact information to justusuitermark //AT// hotmail.com, wnicholl //AT// uci.edu and michiel.van.meeteren //AT// vub.be by October 14, 2017 at the latest.

Environment and planning D: society and space, 10(2), pp.137-161. Katz, C., 1996. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 14(4), pp.487-499. Gibson-Graham, J. K. 1996. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 34 (3):414–430. Edwards, P. N., G. C. Bowker, S. J. Jackson, and R. Williams. Environment and Planning D: Society & Space 13(5): 529-555. †Thrift, N., and S. French.

I am a geographer, artist, and computer programmer currently pursuing a PhD in geography from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The first was in the map gallery and represents space warped by travel times from Madison, WI to Colorado Springs, CO (the location of the meeting) via train and plane. The second was shown in my talk with Luke Bergmann (University of Washington) on what we call ‘Geographical Imagination Systems.’ It shows a wormhole connecting drone pilots in the Nevada Desert to a location in Pakistan that sustained the first known US drone strike in that country.