Comments on: Mapping Sudan – Call for Action? http://thesocietypages.org/graphicsociology/2009/02/03/mapping-sudan-call-for-action/ Analyzing the visual presentation of social data. Each post, Laura Norén takes a chart, table, interactive graphic or other display of sociologically relevant data and evaluates the success of the graphic. Sat, 31 Jan 2015 21:29:01 +0000 hourly 1 By: flaneuse http://thesocietypages.org/graphicsociology/2009/02/03/mapping-sudan-call-for-action/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:36:36 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/graphicsociology/?p=53#comment-5 Just wanted to post a little update on the issue of the lack of attempts to massage information coming out of Sudan into diagrammatic, orderly info graphic representations (as opposed to the evocative, emotional first person narratives and images of beautiful suffering).

I found additional maps of Sudan via the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre but I must note that none were as richly detailed as I would have liked.

]]> By: Mapping murder « A possie in Aussie http://thesocietypages.org/graphicsociology/2009/02/03/mapping-sudan-call-for-action/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:08:29 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/graphicsociology/?p=53#comment-4 […] blogger at Contexts Graphic Sociology noticed that there were plenty of detailed maps of the news coverage of Gaza. On searching for […]

]]> By: Samia Babiher http://thesocietypages.org/graphicsociology/2009/02/03/mapping-sudan-call-for-action/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:53:35 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/graphicsociology/?p=53#comment-3 Lack of first person narratives, and other appropriate forms of cultural expressions in the case of Darfur truely indicates a painful gap in the epistemology of crisis not only Darfourian but for all Sudanese. The more likely the story meant to be covered with hard mapped facts the more it seems effortless/safe to discuss the topic of ‘otherness’ and sociocultural difference. I hardly noticed any real theory on ” Slogans and challenges of indigenous otherness” in Darfur as an entity, and about Darfur as part of an area of one million esq. miles the territory of Sudan! Yet, UN and others ‘urge’ Sudanese to solve their severe problems by themselves, and not to disturb neigbours and world security!

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