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Present	Assistant Professor, University of Washington Tacoma ‐ Urban Studies
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Geography, Geographic Information Sciences, and Urban Studies

2014	Ph.D, Clark University ‐ Geography
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The Individual That Data Can See: The Logic and Limits ...

Thinking Big Data in Geography: New Regimes, New Research

Urban Studies Books (2018)

Jim Thatcher, Andrew Shears and Josef Eckert

Thinking Big Data in Geography offers a practical state-of-the-field overview of big data as both a means and an object ...

Articles (21)

“Smart” Discourses, the Limits of Representation, and New Regimes of ...

Annals of the American Association of Geographers (2019)

Jim Thatcher, Craig Dalton, Clancy Wilmott and Emma Fraser

As “smart” urbanism becomes more influential, spaces and places are increasingly represented through numeric and categorical data that have been ...

Who's Map? Everyday Actions of Spatial Data Resistance

Mapping (In)justice Symposium (2019)

Jim Thatcher and Craig M. Dalton

Computational Parasites and Hydropower: A Political Ecology of Bitcoin Mining ...

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space (2019)

Jim Thatcher, Nick Lally and Kelly Kay

Over the past three years, the dams of Chelan County, Washington, its watershed and fish, the electrical grid and the ...

Checking in on Critical Cartography:

Cartographic Perspectives (2019)

Jim Thatcher and Craig Dalton

Distance Matters: A More Than Euclidean Approach To Visualizing Gerrymandering

Abstracts of the International Cartographic Association (2019)

Jim Thatcher and Austin Jennings

Gerrymandering is the practice of deliberately drawing electoral districts in a way that provides unfair advantage to one group over ...

Seeing by the Starbucks: The Social Context of Mobile Maps ...

Cartographic Perspectives (2019)

Craig M. Dalton and Jim Thatcher

Locating places using maps on mobile devices is an increasingly common practice in modern life. Such maps, including Google Maps ...

You are where you go, the commodification of daily life ...

Environment and Planning A (2017)

Urban studies and thinking topologically

Territory, Politics, Governance (2017)

Lisa M. Hoffman and Jim E. Thatcher

Evolving Technology, Shifting Expectations: Cultivating Pedagogy for a Rapidly Changing ...

Journal of Geography in Higher Education (2017)

Britta Ricker and Jim Thatcher

As humans and natural processes continuously reshape the surface of the Earth, there is an unceasing need to document and ...

Looking Back to Detroit for a (Counter-Mapping) Path Forward

Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography (2017)

Part of the Symposium – The Detroit Geographical Expedition and Institute Then and Now: Commentaries on “Field Notes No.4: The ...

Spatiality, Maps, and Mathematics in Critical Human Geography: Toward a ...

The Professional Geographer (2017)

David O'Sullivan, Luke Bergmann and Jim Thatcher

Visualizing New Political Ecologies: A Critical Data Studies Analysis of ...

Geoforum (2017)

James McCarthy and Jim Thatcher

In the context of climate change and concerns about fossil fuels, territories around the world are being remapped for their ...

The Object of Mobile Spatial Data, the Subject in Mobile ...

Big Data & Society (2016)

With an estimated one billion smartphones producing over 5 petabytes of data a day, the spatially aware mobile device has ...

Critical Data Studies: A Dialog on Data and Space

Big Data & Society (2016)

Craig M. Dalton, Linnet Taylor and Jim Thatcher

In light of recent technological innovations and discourses around data and algorithmic analytics, scholars of many stripes are attempting to ...

Revisiting Critical GIS

Environment and Planning A (2016)

Jim Thatcher, Luke Bergmann, Britta Ricker, Reuben Rose-Redwood, et al.

Data Colonialism Through Accumulation by Dispossession: New Metaphors for Daily ...

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space (2016)

Jim Thatcher, David O’Sullivan and Dillon Mahmoudi

In recent years, much has been written on ‘big data' in both the popular and academic press. After the hubristic ...

Data Colonialism through Accumulation by Dispossession: New metaphors for Daily ...

Urban Studies and Planning Faculty Publications and Presentations (2015)

Jim Thatcher, David O'Sullivan and Dillon Mahmoudi

In recent years, much has been written on ‘big data’ in both the popular and academic press. After the hubristic ...

Inflated Granularity: Spatial 'Big Data' and Geodemographics

Big Data & Society (2015)

Craig M. Dalton and Jim Thatcher

Data analytics, particularly the current rhetoric around 'Big Data', tend to be presented as new and innovative, emerging ahistorically to ...

Guest Editorial: What's So Big About Big Data? Finding ...

GeoJournal (2014)

Ryan Burns and Jim Thatcher

Living on Fumes: Digital Footprints, Data Fumes, and the Limitations ...

International Journal of Communication (2014)

Amid the continued rise of big data in both the public and private sectors, spatial information has come to play ...

Avoiding the Ghetto Through Hope and Fear: An Analysis of ...

GeoJournal (2013)

With over one hundred million smart-phone users in the world, mobile, spatially-aware devices are radically altering how individuals move through ...

Contribution to Book

Sousveillant and Locative Media

Understanding Spatial Media (2017)

Contribution to Book

Provenance and Possibility, Thoughts Towards a Scheme for Urban Data

Data and the City (2016)

Jim Thatcher and Craig M. Dalton

‘Big data's' boosters present a mythology wherein it is perpetually new, pushing ever forwards towards bigger and better representations of ...