matthew w. wilson
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My research agenda is situated across political, feminist, and urban geography as well as science and technoculture studies, interfacing these with the more specified field of ‘critical geographic information systems’. I am interested in how geographic information technologies enable particular neighborhood assessment endeavors, and how these kinds of geocoding activities mobilize notions of ‘quality-of-life’ and ‘sustainability’.

My dissertation research concentrates at the intersections of several phenomena, namely the energies with which nonprofit and community organizations approach neighborhood quality-of-life issues, the increased role that geographic information technologies have in addressing this kind of indicator work, as well as the increased geocoding of city spaces more generally.

I conceptualize geographic information technologies as a technoscientific practice, with its associated constellations of organizations, places, bodies, and technologies.   Informed by self-told stories of origins within the 'GIS and Society' literature and broader movements in technocultural studies, I attempt to modestly witness (following Haraway) the material and discursive productions of a nonprofit moved to create new futures for Seattle neighborhoods and their residents.   I propose cyborgian performativity as a conceptualization of subjectivation in GIT, as it celebrates technology in its potential openness while being resolved to carefully account for the political imaginaries internalized through their practice.   More specifically, I ask: how are individuals' and organizations' interactions with geographic information technologies constituted by and through the identities and subjectivities of these organizations, bodies, technologies, and places?

AAG paper and panel sessions, which I have co-organized, contextualize my research. Click here.

Invited lectures

Working manuscripts

  • Sayers, Jentery, J. James Bono, Curtis Hisayasu, Matthew W. Wilson. "Standards in the Making: Composing with Metadata in Mind." In The New Work of Composing.

Recent and forthcoming publications
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Click any of my three doctoral examination areas, above,
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my research.
These were successfully defended in June of 2007.

matthew w. wilson