About the Project

Our Mission

Centennial Struggles (CS) is dedicated to unearthing the legacies of resistance to racial, settler colonial, economic, and gendered domination in Colorado’s Front Range region across the 20th century to the present. By combining digital maps and semi-curated digital archives, CS asks how reverberations of past social and political struggles map onto our current political moment. Our use of maps and archives reflects a commitment to using digital technologies to center marginalized histories of resistance, historicize contemporary social movements, and complement social and political struggle against carceral power.

Goals

Increase the accessibility of marginalized histories for local communities in the Front Range by providing a semi-curated repository for materials (pictures, letters, news articles, etc.) that community members can contribute to and have ownership over.
Complement ongoing struggles against racism, settler colonial violence, sexism, queerphobia, and economic exploitation by mapping out historical examples of social and political resistance in the Front Range. We see these past moments as possible sources of inspiration for contemporary political organizers, activists, and scholars.
Develop strategies for using GIS and digital archives to destabilize dominant historical-geographical narratives of carceral power, private property rights, entwined processes of criminalization/racialization, and settler colonial violence that position oppression and exploitation as commonsense parts of modern life.

Technology Mission Statement

Many of the communities we aim to serve rely on deteriorating internet infrastructure or outdated hardware, thereby limiting their ability to use platforms such as this one. We aim to remedy this by committing to principles rooted in accessible design and minimal computing, so as to ensure that regardless of ones device or bandwidth limits, this platform will be usable. This approach is also rooted in our efforts to minimize the carbon footprint of such a platform by limiting the amount of energy required to host it.

Our Team

Drew Heiderscheidt, Co-PI

Drew Heiderscheidt is a PhD Candidate in Geography at Indiana University Bloomington. A historical geographer, his research focuses on using GIS to visualize and analyze social and political movements in Colorado’s Front Range. His dissertation, titled “Foreigners, Vagrants, Outside Agitators: Geographically Imagining Criminals & Collectivity in Colorado, 1890s-1910s” examines how the Western Federation of Miners was criminalized during its strikes in Colorado at the turn of the 20th century.

Isaac Rivera, Co-PI

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Tim Clark, GIS Specialist

Eve Gordon, GIS Specialist

Other Contributors

Jacky Hayth (GIS Research Assistant)