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Crandall-Oral, Lily Demet

University of British Columbia

What could it mean to think with place? To feel the city? I explore and respond to these questions through deep mapping, or situated, embodied inhabitation as a practice of ongoing and open-ended dialogue with the world. Deep mapping is not defined by opposition so much as articulated through iterative acts of interference with hegemonic forms of representing place, producing geographic knowledge, and rendering spatial research public. This is my theory, at least. My master's research-creation amounts to cultivating a practice of deep mapping, theorizing my interpretation of this capacious practice through practice, and enacting my theory as praxis. I submit as my thesis a zip file whose uncompressed contents comprise the website negative-spaces. negative-spaces employs form as a tactic for refiguring the boundaries of intelligibility around what counts as a thesis, as fieldwork, and as intellecting others (i.e., interlocutors). In my research practice, which includes the creation of this webbed site, I am guided by slow scholarship and bricolage as necessary self-accommodations as much as an interference with dominant economies of knowledge production. What is rendered here is not a substitution for practice. Rather, negative-spaces sites a partial account of an ongoing interference praxis. To engage my work, please download the compressed file ubc_2024_november_crandalloral_lily_negative_spaces.zip from the University of British Columbia's institutional open collection of Theses and Dissertations. It can be located by searching my name, Lily Demet Crandall-Oral, in the collection's search bar. Once ubc_2024_november_crandalloral_lily_negative_spaces.zip is downloaded to a folder on your physical computer (such as Desktop or Downloads), unzip it. You can unzip it either by double clicking the file, or right-clicking it and choosing to unzip with a compression software. Once unzipped, enter the folder negative-spaces. Right-click the file index.html and "open with" a web browser. Google Chrome is recommended. If the steps to download my thesis locally are not accessible to you, the website which renders my thesis can also be engaged by navigating to https://negative-spaces.github.io/. If this site should ever cease to exist, an internet archive can be found here: https://web.archive.org/web/20240820234412/https://negative-spaces.github.io/.

Text; Interactive Resource

2024-08-29

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

http://hdl.handle.net/2429/89109

Geography

University of British Columbia

UBCV

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/