This page was created by Collin Hardwick.
Planning the Route
My goal for this presentation is to demonstrate that:
1) Scholarly work that aims to be critical, ethical, and/or decolonial must integrate attention to context.2) Embedding geographic context into our work requires attention to the structure of scholarly compositions.
3) Rhetoricians, compositionists and other writing-focused scholars may find gaming studies and mapping to be useful inputs when creating geographically-informed compositions.
4) Using platforms like Scalar in teaching, writing, and publishing can encourage deeply contextualized scholarship, even for those unfamiliar with digital scholarship, coding, and/or non-linear composition.
In correspondence with point four, I reflect on my experience working with Scalar for the first time. In spring 2018, I created a Scalar book focused on space. With that project, I used Scalar with the intention of creating an organization that mimicked geography, with space for reader detours. I do not share that book as an exemplary model -- rather, my intention is to show the ways that the platform helped me begin grappling with the above stated ideas, even with limited web design skills.
