The Chaos of Movement Algorithms in Ethically Recovering Black Pasts
Topics: Black Geographies
, Geographic Theory
, Geographic Information Science and Systems
Keywords: Black Feminism, Mobility, Historical Geography, Algorithms of Movement, Spatial Modelling
Session Type: Virtual Paper Abstract
Day: Friday
Session Start / End Time: 2/25/2022 03:40 PM (Eastern Time (US & Canada)) - 2/25/2022 05:00 PM (Eastern Time (US & Canada))
Room: Virtual 48
Authors:
Christy Lynn Hyman, Cornell University
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Abstract
”… more broadly, the acute marginalization of the world’s most vulnerable communities, are entrenched in algorithmic equations(McKittrick 2021).”
Katherine McKittrick deconstructs the violence’s of algorithms in Dear Science and Other Stories. Safiya Noble outlines the myriad ways that “everyday uses of technology reveal the discrimination embedded in computer code(2018).” Further, these scholars along with Saidiya Hartman, Christina Sharpe, Chelsea Mikael Frazier, LaToya Eaves, Jessica Marie Johnson and others have illuminated how the archive of slavery itself renders Black people as subhuman.
Yet the history of Black resistance in the form of self-liberation, fugitivity, can be honored through careful, ethical, soul affirming approaches to spatial modeling that foregrounds the ethical responsibilities that Black feminist scholarship promotes.
This talk will focus on enslaved people’s movement by land and water across a six-county area bordering the Great Dismal Swamp. Utilizing innovative approaches in GIS I will discuss my attempts to simulate the physical, political, and social costs of escaping from bondage during the era of slavery in the United States with a view to Black Feminist Ecological Ethics.
The Chaos of Movement Algorithms in Ethically Recovering Black Pasts
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