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This afterword addresses critical place-based pedagogy in the contemporary context, specifically in two areas: the COVID-19 crisis and structural racism. Mapping plays a role in better understanding how place matters in both. While place-based learning can be incorporated into an online course, the assignment of sending students out into populated communities takes on a new dimension during an era of “social distancing,” so DeWitt and Langran discuss their adaptations of place-based learning assignments. The COVID-19 maps that appeared in news coverage presented an instructional opportunity and call for much-needed geospatial literacy. One of the spatial patterns that emerged during the pandemic illustrated what we already knew about race and place and the disproportionate impact of the pandemic. The authors conclude with the role of mapping in structural inequality when it comes to the spatial dimension of racism, highlighting projects that map how race intersects with police violence and housing discrimination. |
