TY - JOUR
T1 - “The Care and Feeding of Power Structures”
T2 - Reconceptualizing Geospatial Intelligence through the Countermapping Efforts of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
AU - Inwood, Joshua F.J.
AU - Alderman, Derek H.
N1 - Funding Information:
The memo began by outlining the various data sources used and analyzed by SNCC researchers. This included subscriptions to all of the major national newspapers as well as many smaller newspapers throughout the South. SNCC researchers also received the Congressional Record and Congressional Quarterly and were on the mailing lists of several dozen government agencies who produced quarterly and annual reports about various economic, social, and political conditions throughout the United States. Perhaps most important, the memo details a list of economic and legal publications, including publications related to Wall Street and finance and a complete set of U.S. Census Bureau publications for each of the Black Belt states. The memo then outlines four projects supported by the SNCC research office over the past year. This included supplying “needed facts and figures” to Freedom Schools in Mississippi to help develop their curricula on basic economics in the Delta region.
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PY - 2020/5/3
Y1 - 2020/5/3
N2 - This article advances three interrelated arguments. First, by focusing on the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee’s (SNCC) Research Department, an undertheorized chapter in the civil rights movement, we advance an expressly spatialized understanding of the African American freedom struggle. Second, by focusing on an SNCC-produced pamphlet titled The Care and Feeding of Power Structures, we advance a larger historical geography of geospatial agency and countermapping of racial capital within black civil rights struggles. SNCC’s research praxis, which we argue constitutes a radical geospatial intelligence project, recognizes that geographical methods, information, and analytical insights are not just the purview of experts but are a set of political tools and processes deployed by a wide range of groups. Our article develops a deeper understanding of the rich spatial practices underlying black geographies and the role of geospatial intelligence in a democratic society outside the military–industrial–academic complex. Key Words: black geographies, civil rights, countermapping, geospatial intelligence, SNCC.
AB - This article advances three interrelated arguments. First, by focusing on the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee’s (SNCC) Research Department, an undertheorized chapter in the civil rights movement, we advance an expressly spatialized understanding of the African American freedom struggle. Second, by focusing on an SNCC-produced pamphlet titled The Care and Feeding of Power Structures, we advance a larger historical geography of geospatial agency and countermapping of racial capital within black civil rights struggles. SNCC’s research praxis, which we argue constitutes a radical geospatial intelligence project, recognizes that geographical methods, information, and analytical insights are not just the purview of experts but are a set of political tools and processes deployed by a wide range of groups. Our article develops a deeper understanding of the rich spatial practices underlying black geographies and the role of geospatial intelligence in a democratic society outside the military–industrial–academic complex. Key Words: black geographies, civil rights, countermapping, geospatial intelligence, SNCC.
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U2 - 10.1080/24694452.2019.1631747
DO - 10.1080/24694452.2019.1631747
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85071146523
SN - 2469-4452
VL - 110
SP - 705
EP - 723
JO - Annals of the American Association of Geographers
JF - Annals of the American Association of Geographers
IS - 3
ER -