Article Title
Behind the Map: Crises and Crisis Collectives in High-Tech Actions
Abstract
Abstract: Over the five last years, crisis mapping has gained wide popularity in the humanitarian world with collaboration between crisis mappers and the UN on several emergency projects. Crisis mapping relies on interactive maps to monitor both incidents and resources in settings undergoing a “crisis” (political, environmental, etc). Focusing on one case study (the monitoring of violence during the 2011 elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo) and building on several interviews conducted with leading crisis mappers and project coordinators, this paper shows that the deep significance of crisis mapping cannot be grasped through an understanding of the goals and success or failure of its projects. It is rather to be found in the space of collaboration brought forth by the coordination of the deployments which generates a new manner of “being in crisis”—understood both as being in a crisis and the state of crisis.
Recommended Citation
Gedeon Achi, Fiona
(2014)
"Behind the Map: Crises and Crisis Collectives in High-Tech Actions,"
Totem: The University of Western Ontario Journal of Anthropology: Vol. 22:
Iss.
1, Article 11.
Available at:
https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/totem/vol22/iss1/11