Patzke_Poster

Title: Mapping Fracking: Place Based Ethics and GIS activism

Place-based ethics, or the idea that an individual’s location informs political, social and economic decisions, propels ‘anti-fracking’ activists in central New York State. This poster investigates how Geographic Information Systems (GIS) maps of aggregated data reveal the political and economic considerations of diverse communities in the state. Paradoxically, GIS maps provide a tool for activists to instantiate place-based ethics in a variety of locals as once, highlighting the shared danger of hydraulic fracturing. Maps are viewed as a medium to ‘truthfully’ communicate and educate viewers of the consequences of alternative gas drilling. The maps presented in this poster are temporarily ambiguous comparing data from the past with expectations and plans for the future. Considering this, GIS provides a means to imagine the future of a locale and speculate unintended consequences of drilling based on past events. This poster focuses on three maps: //The List of the Harmed//, which presents the places individuals have been negatively impacted by gas drilling, //Bans, Moratoria, and movements against hydraulic fracturing for shale-gas in New York State//, which attempts to identify future locations of drilling sites, and maps that implicate water quality with proximity to drilling activities. When viewed in proximity, these maps identify the real threat of alternative gas drilling. This poster draws on data gathered through qualitative research methods, including interviews and observations, to show how activists use GIS data to disseminate knowledge about hydraulic fracturing in easy-to-understand maps.



here are some links for conference posters:

http://chronicle.com/blogs/innovations/how-to-save-the-social-sciences/29607

http://yrc.scuegypt.edu.eg/admincp/exhibition_pic/1361435209.pdf

http://www.aaanet.org/meetings/upload/how-to-create-anthropology-posters.pdf

http://clt.lse.ac.uk/poster-design/

http://www.ext.colostate.edu/staffres/poster.pdf

http://www.posterpresentations.com/html/free_poster_templates.html

http://academicdepartments.musc.edu/art_services/svcs_offered/templates.htm