Dr. V. (Valentina) Carraro
Assistant professor
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
GPIO : Geographies of Globalizations
Visiting address
- Nieuwe Achtergracht 166
Postal address
- Postbus 15629
1001 NC Amsterdam
Contact details
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Profile
Dr. Valentina Carraro is Assistant Professor at the GPIO and is affiliated to the AISSR programme group on Political and Economic Geographies. Her current research focuses on the geopolitical implicationof digital platforms. More broadly, her work sits at the intersection of political geography and political ecology, with a particular interest in how digitalisation and datafication reconfigure socio-spatial relations.
Her book, ‘Jerusalem Online: Critical Cartography for the Digital Age’, has been published by Palgrave-MacMillan in 2021 and examines the politics of web-maps in/of Jerusalem, drawing on ontological social theory and feminist technoscience. Prior to joining UvA, Valentina held a Fondecyt postdoc fellowship at CIGIDEN / Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, in Santiago.
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Research interests
- Critical cartography and critical GIS
- Digital geographies and platform urbanism
- Feminist political economy
- Political ecology
- Postcolonial and decolonial theory
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Teaching
Master's courses
- Advanced Political Geography, MSc Human Geography, co-taught with Virginie Mamadouh
- Research Methodologies 2: Spatial Analyses, MSc Human Geography & MSc Urban and Regional Planning, Lecturer/Coordinator, co-taught with Yang Chen
- Climate Proof Development of Cities and Strategic Planning, MSc Urban and Regional Planning, Lecturer, co-taught with Mendel Giezen
- GEO-Track: Master Thesis Supervision, MSc Human Geography
Bachelor's courses
- Geographic Information Systems (2021-2023), BSc Future Planet Studies, Lecturer/Coordinator
- Spatial Implications of Environmental Change (2021-22), BSc Future Planet Studies, Lecturer/co-cordinator, co-taught with Jannes Willems
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Publications
2023
- Carraro, V. (2023). Of fixes and glitches: Mixing metaphors for platform urbanism. Digital Geography and Society, 4, [100056]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diggeo.2023.100056
2022
- Carraro, V., Kelly, S., Vargas, J. L., Melillanca, P., & Valdés-Negroni, J. M. (2022). Undoing disaster colonialism: a pilot map of the pandemic's first wave in the Mapuche territories of Southern Chile. Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal, 31(1), 68-78. https://doi.org/10.1108/DPM-03-2021-0106 [details]
Inzunza General, S. I., Castañeda, J., & Carraro, V. (2022). Resiliencia comunitaria en contexto de desastre por COVID-19: Resurgimiento y territorialización de las ollas comunes, el caso de Puente Alto. Revista de Geografía Norte Grande, 84. https://ojs.uc.cl/index.php/RGNG/article/view/24419
2021
- Carraro, V. (2021). Jerusalem Online: Critical Cartography for the Digital Age. Palgrave Macmillan.
- Carraro, V. (2021). Grounding the digital: a comparison of Waze ‘avoid dangerous areas’ feature in Jerusalem, Rio de Janeiro and the US. GeoJournal, 86(3), 1121-1139. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-019-10117-y
- Carraro, V., Visconti, C., & Inzunza, S. (2021). Neoliberal urbanism and disaster vulnerability on the Chilean central coast. Geoforum, 121, 83-92. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.02.023
2018
- Carraro, V., & Wissink, B. (2018). Participation and marginality on the geoweb: The politics of non-mapping on OpenStreetMap Jerusalem. Geoforum, 90, 64-73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.02.001
2022
- Carraro, V. (2022). Reimagining the cartographic nation: In praise of risk taking. Dialogues in Human Geography, 12(1), 33-36. https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206211044571 [details]
2020
- Visconti, C., Carraro, V., & Inzunza, S. (2020). Collective mapping as a methodology for participatory, disaster-responsive urban planning: lessons from Chile. In Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Risks and Disasters (Vol. 3). Núcleo Interdisciplinar de Pesquisas sobre Desastres –Universidade Federal Do Rio Grande Do Norte. https://www.grin.com/document/979893
2020
- Mapuexpress, CIGIDEN, Kelly, S., Valdés Negroni, J., Carraro, V., Vargas, J. L., & Melillanca, P. (2020). Descolonizando la Pandemia en Territorio Mapuche: Mapeando Coronavirus en el Wallmapu. Mapuexpress & CIGIDEN. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/347455119_Descolonizando_la_Pandemia_en_Territorio_Mapuche_Mapeando_Coronavirus_en_el_Wallmapu
2020
- Carraro, V. (Author). (2020). Chile’s Establishment Have Just Discovered a Concern for Santiago’s Heritage After Years of Negligence: Failed Architecture. Web publication/site https://failedarchitecture.com/chiles-establishment-have-just-discovered-a-concern-for-santiagos-heritage-after-years-of-negligence/
2019
- Carraro, V. (2019). Jerusalem Online: Critical Cartography after the Ontological Turn. CityU Scholars. https://scholars.cityu.edu.hk/en/theses/theses(f94585b1-f41f-4755-ad19-0d2faddeea3a).html
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Ancillary activities
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Inzunza General, S. I., Castañeda, J., & Carraro, V. (2022). Resiliencia comunitaria en contexto de desastre por COVID-19: Resurgimiento y territorialización de las ollas comunes, el caso de Puente Alto. Revista de Geografía Norte Grande, 84.