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DESCRIPTION:This presentation shows how QGIS\, OpenStreetMap\, and other op
 en resources were used to reconstruct narrative maps conveying one woman
 ’s experience with space and identity in mid-20th-century São Paulo. In
  1960\, the edited diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus\, Quarto de Despejo\, 
 become one of the best-selling books in Brazil. It vividly portrayed the s
 truggles of a single mother scavenging the streets of the city looking for
  anything to sell so she could feed her family. Some Brazilians did not be
 lieve that a Black woman from a “favela” neighborhood could have compo
 sed such a poetically poignant manuscript\, but more recent scholarship ha
 s confirmed the authenticity of Carolina’s authorship.  \n\nIt is clear 
 that Carolina saw and felt lines of division between her neighborhood and 
 the city not visible on any printed maps of the time. When going into “t
 he city” she felt like she was in paradise\, or a beautiful guest room\;
  whereas her neighborhood on the precarious margins of the Tietê River wa
 s viewed as the backyard trash heap\, subject to environmental hazards and
  government neglect. In this talk\, I use narrative maps to show how these
  different places in Carolina’s life were constructed and what they each
  meant to her.  \n\nIn order to better understand Carolina's relationship 
 to the spaces she called “the favela” and “the city”\, I carefully
  constructed a list of every place mentioned in Quarto de Despejo. Employi
 ng a combination of archival research\, Internet searches\, onsite visits\
 , and modern GIS databases\, our research team located and mapped as many 
 of these locations as possible\, using QGIS software. For a base layer\, w
 e fashioned a historical street grid by starting with OpenStreetMap and mo
 difying the geometries to conform to old aerial photographs freely availab
 le online. We then used our newly-created databases to compose narrative m
 aps of Carolina’s São Paulo\, focusing on areas where she did and did n
 ot go\, as well as places where she experienced different kinds of emotion
 s\, challenges\, access to resources\, and interactions with the state. Th
 ese maps demonstrate how geographic and social barriers both seen and unse
 en influenced the daily lives of Paulistanos in the 1950s\, a challenge th
 at persists in Brazil today.
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LOCATION:Room II
SUMMARY:Reconstructing literary geographies on the margins of São Paulo us
 ing open GIS resources - Sterling Quinn
URL:https://talks.staging.osgeo.org/foss4g-2024/talk/ESB8EN/
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