ARCHEOLOGY OF EXCLUSION COUNTER-MAPPING SITES OF EXCLUSION AND OPPRESSION IN THE ADMINISTRATIVE STATE USING GIS

• Published in: Public administration quarterly Vol. 42; no. 2; pp. 127 - 158
• Main Author: SANTIS, ESTEBAN LEONARDO
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA SPAEF 01.07.2018; SAGE Publications; Southern Public Administration Education Foundation, Inc; Southern Public Administration Education Foundation
• Subjects: Affluence; Archaeology; Archives & records; Cartography; Case studies; Citizen participation; Citizenship; Crime victims; Criminalization; Dehumanization; Democracy; Empowerment; Geographic information systems; Geography; Inequality; Intellectuals; Jurisprudence; Local government; Martin, Trayvon; Methods; Noncitizens; Ontology; Oppression; Oppression (Politics); Power; Praxis; Public administration; Public policy; Public sector; Shootings; Social aspects; Sovereignty; Theory; Zimmerman, George; United States; Florida; United States > US; Chicago Illinois; Julia Kristeva; Coloniality of Power; Geographic Information Systems; Administrative State; Counter-Mapping; Oppression; GIS; Abjection; Critical GIS; Concentrated Affluence; Giorgio Agamben; Exclusion; State of Exception; Aníbal Quijano; Concentrated Disadvantage; Trayvon Martin
• ISSN: 0734-9149; 2327-4433
• DOI: 10.1177/073491491804200202

As public administration continues to explore geographic information systems (GIS), the field needs to take critical GIS seriously. Herein, I demonstrate that critical GIS can help public administration scholars and practitioners counter-map sites of oppression and exclusion, which has important implications for a socially just administrative state. This study begins with a theoretical discussion about the role of exclusion and oppression in the administrative state by way of Agamben’s (1998; 2004) state of exception, Kristeva’s (1982) abjection, and Quijano’s (1992; 2000) coloniality of power thesis. Thereafter, I look at exclusion and oppression in praxis, followed by a case study that examines the shooting of seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida, on the evening of February 26, 2012. Here, counter-maps show a stark juxtaposition of concentrated affluence and disadvantage in Sanford; which points to a series of inequalities that quite possibly empowered George Zimmerman’s decision to abject Trayvon Martin.