My dissertation research seeks to investigate 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 ( á la Haraway) the material and discursive productions of a nonprofit moved to create new futures for Seattle neighborhoods and their residents.   I have proposed that cyborgian performativity is a productive 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?

Click any of my three doctoral examination areas, on the right, to review how I situate my research. These were successfully defended in June of 2007.

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

Working manuscripts:

• Kaserman, Bonnie and Matthew W. Wilson. On not wanting it to count: Reading together as resistance.
  Submitted to Area.
• Wilson, Matthew W. Cyborg geographies: Towards hybrid epistemologies. Submitted.
  

c a r t o g r a p h y
g i s
s o c i e t y

c y b o r g
b o d y
g e o c o d e d . w o r l d

p o w e r
t h e . p o l i t i c a l
c o m m u n i t y