Paper Sessions (11:00am–12:30pm)

Care  (Gould 114)  

Simon Springer
University of Victoria
“Beautiful Anarchism: Relational Geography and the Politics of Becoming”

Peter Dunn
University of Washington
“Seeing and Being Seen: Boundaries of Attention in the Software-Mediated City”

Ronnie Thibault
University of Washington
“The Cultural Politics of Representation, Global Development & Developmental Disabilities in the United States.”

Maggie Wilson
University of Washington
“Culture, Difference, and Mental Illness.”

Caitlin Alcorn
University of Washington
Regulating Care: Precarious Labor, Homecare Workers and the Fair Labor Standards Act

Control (Gould 110)

Dawn Hoogeveen and Emily Rosenman
University of British Columbia
“Instant Land, Instant Money: New technologies of virtual finance in North America”

Catherine Guimond
San Francisco Art Institute
“Realizing the rent gap: Exclusions at the heart of urban reinvestment”

Mikael Omstedt
University of British Columbia
“Abstracting risk, Commodifying space: Credit Rating Agencies’ view of the world”

Kyle Kubler
University of Washington
“Software, Hard Power: A comparative analysis of policing software and tactics in French states of emergency”