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Overview

Sarah Elwood is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States and works primarily within the Social Sciences field. Their research encompasses several interconnected subfields, including Geography, Planning and Development; Sociology and Political Science; Transportation; Urban Studies; and Political Science and International Relations.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Geographies of human-animal interactions
  • Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
  • Urban Planning and Governance
  • Gender, Feminism, and Media
  • Media Studies and Communication
  • Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
  • Public Spaces through Art

Sarah Elwood has published research frequently in the following venues:

  • Progress in Human Geography
  • Dialogues in Human Geography
  • Antipode
  • Annals of the American Association of Geographers
  • Environment and Planning D Society and Space

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Sarah Elwood include:

  • "Digital geographies, feminist relationality, Black and queer code studies: Thriving otherwise," 2020, Progress in Human Geography

Frequent coauthors with Sarah Elwood reflect collaborations across various perspectives and topics. These include:

  • Agnieszka Leszczynski
  • Victoria Lawson
  • Austin Crane
  • Ling Bian
  • Isaac Rivera

Other relevant papers in related networks of scholarship include works by coauthors, such as "Glitch epistemologies for computational cities" (2022) published in Dialogues in Human Geography and "Introduction: Networks" (2024) published in Annals of the American Association of Geographers.

Best Publications

  • “Placing” Interviews: Location and Scales of Power in Qualitative Research

    Sarah A. Elwood;Deborah G. Martin

  • Researching Volunteered Geographic Information: Spatial Data, Geographic Research, and New Social Practice

    Sarah Elwood;Michael F. Goodchild;Daniel Z. Sui

  • Volunteered geographic information: future research directions motivated by critical, participatory, and feminist GIS

    Sarah Elwood

  • Critical Issues in Participatory GIS: Deconstructions, Reconstructions, and New Research Directions

    Sarah Elwood

  • Crowdsourcing Geographic Knowledge: Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) in Theory and Practice

    Daniel Sui;Sarah Elwood;Michael Goodchild

  • Beyond Cooptation or Resistance: Urban Spatial Politics, Community Organizations, and GIS-Based Spatial Narratives

    Sarah Elwood

  • New spatial media, new knowledge politics

    Sarah Elwood;Agnieszka Leszczynski

  • Geographic information science: emerging research on the societal implications of the geospatial web:

    Sarah Elwood

  • Negotiating Knowledge Production: The Everyday Inclusions, Exclusions, and Contradictions of Participatory GIS Research*

    Sarah Elwood

  • Qualitative GIS: A Mixed Methods Approach

    Meghan Cope;Sarah Elwood

  • GIS Use in Community Planning: A Multidimensional Analysis of Empowerment

    Sarah A Elwood

  • Privacy, reconsidered: New representations, data practices, and the geoweb

    Sarah Elwood;Agnieszka Leszczynski

  • Volunteered geographic information: key questions, concepts and methods to guide emerging research and practice

    Sarah Elwood

  • How and Why Community Groups Use Maps and Geographic Information

    William J. Craig;Sarah A. Elwood

  • Feminist digital geographies

    Sarah Elwood;Agnieszka Leszczynski

  • Geographic Information Science: new geovisualization technologies — emerging questions and linkages with GIScience research:

    Sarah Elwood

  • GIS and Community-based Planning: Exploring the Diversity of Neighborhood Perspectives and Needs

    Sarah Elwood;Helga Leitner

  • Grassroots groups as stakeholders in spatial data infrastructures: challenges and opportunities for local data development and sharing

    Sarah Elwood

  • Digital geographies, feminist relationality, Black and queer code studies: Thriving otherwise:

    Sarah Elwood

  • Mixed Methods: Thinking, Doing, and Asking in Multiple Ways

    Sarah Elwood

  • Volunteered Geographic Information, the Exaflood, and the Growing Digital Divide

    Daniel Sui;Michael Goodchild;Sarah Elwood

Frequent Co-Authors

Noel Castree
Noel Castree University of Technology Sydney
Helga Leitner
Helga Leitner University of California, Los Angeles
Eric Sheppard
Eric Sheppard University of California, Los Angeles
Daniel Z. Sui
Daniel Z. Sui The Ohio State University
Chris Philo
Chris Philo University of Glasgow
Rob Kitchin
Rob Kitchin National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Eugene McCann
Eugene McCann Simon Fraser University
Sarah A. Radcliffe
Sarah A. Radcliffe University of Cambridge
Patrick Bond
Patrick Bond University of Johannesburg

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