Syllabus | Books & Journals | Term Paper Assignment | P. McDowell home page | Dept. of Geography Week 9 Schedule and Assignments Monday, March 5: Recent developments in geographic study of Ethno-Territorial Conflicts (Wixman) Reading assignment: Conversi, Daniele. 1997. “Reassessing Current Theories of Nationalism: Nationalism as Boundary Maintenance and Creation.” In John Agnew, ed., Political Geography: A Reader. London: Arnold, pp. 325-336. Taylor, Peter J. 1989. “Nations and Nationalism in Political Geography” in Political Geography: World Economy, Nation-State, and Locality. London: Longman, pp. 170-201. Wixman, Ronald. 1986. "Applied Soviet Nationality Policy: A Suggested Rationale." In Passé‚ Turco-Tatar--Préent Sovietique: Etudes Offerte àAlexandre Bennigsen. Edited by Ch. Lemercier-Quelquejay, G. Veinstein, and S. E. Wimbush. Louvain: Editions Peeters, pp. 449-468. Wednesday, March 7: Recent developments in GIScience (Buckley) Reading assignment: Goodchild, M.F., 2000. Communicating geographic information in a digital age. Annals of the Assoc. of Amer. Geog. 90: 344-355. (in Condon 108) Skim the ten position papers on research priorities in GIS that were identified by the UCGIS in 1998 -- there is a link to these from http://www.ucgis.org/f2areser.html. The ten themes are: spatial data acquisition and integration, distributed computing, extensions to geographic representation, cognition of geographic information, interoperability of geographic information, scale, spatial analysis in a GIS environment, the future of the spatial information infrastructure, uncertainty in spatial data and GIS-based analysis, and GIS and society. Then skim the white papers on the five new research themes that were proposed in 2000 -- there is a link from the same page as above. The five new proposed themes are: geospatial data mining and knowledge discovery, ontological foundations of GIS, geographical visualization, analytical cartography, and remotely-acquired data and information in GIScience. Read the comments from the UCGIS members about the themes after they were first presented in 2000:
Finally, read the message from Lynn Usery explaining the process by which UCGIS will decide whether or or not to elevate any of these new themes to the list of ten. We will discuss and vote on which themes should be elevated to the status of "Research Priority" and become the topic of a specialist meeting at the 2001 Summer Assembly in Buffalo. You should base your vote on: the justification for including the topic as a UCGIS priority; how is it different from the existing ten themes; why it demands our attention; and what makes it emerging.
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