I realize this may not be a popular opinion on this list, but I actually
like the idea of a comparative Tea Party/Occupy study. Because the Tea
Party serves the interests of power, it was both seeded and co-opted by
billionaires and other elites, but I have also met members who are true
self-organizing believers. Polarization through delegitimization seems
like the wrong direction for us to go as researchers. I understand and
respect that others on this list may disagree.
Thanks,
Mary
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 12:45 AM, jeramy townsley <council@???>wrote:
> Thanks to several of you who commented. I pulled together 3 sources and
> generated a protest map by U.S. congressional districts. It is only
> contiguous U.S. and reflects 2 approaches--number of cities where protests
> occurred per districts, and estimated number of protesters per district.
> This is early stage work and I have posted it to my blog. The raw data is
> at the very bottom of the post, my decision criteria are listed. Image
> files (jpg) of the maps are on top of the blog. If any of you would like
> a
> copy of the original shp file for the maps with my data, I can send you
> what
> I have. Again, these are mapped by U.S. congressional district, not full
> city mapping by GIS code.
>
>
> http://fallcreekrenovation.blogspot.com/2013/10/occupy-wall-street-mapping-a
> nd-others.html
>
> Jeramy Townsley
> Sociology/Psychology
> IUPUI
>
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> Of jeramy townsley
> Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 11:36 PM
> To: 'List of the shared space for distributed research occupyresearch'
> Subject: [Occupyresearch] mapping occupy protests GIS, shp files
>
> I'm working on a US project comparing Tea Party activism to Occupy activism
> based on congressional districts. Since the TP ran candidates, it's easy
> to
> track them this way. However, I haven't found a good GIS map of occupy
> protests, just various Google maps. Anybody seen a shp file, or similar
> raster/vector that I can use to map that onto US House districts?
> Thanks
>
> Jeramy Townsley
> Sociology/Psychology
> Indiana University/Purdue University Indianapolis
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