Bridging Critical Geographic Scholarship and Educational Infrastructure: Revisable StoryMaps and Public Circulation of Geographic Storytelling

This article examines how storytelling platforms like ArcGIS StoryMaps can integrate critical geographic scholarship into public and introductory geographic educational outlets. We position storytelling platforms as a mechanism for increased collaboration, faster integration of critical scholarship, and reaching broader audiences for geographic knowledge production and circulation. We argue that there is a disconnect between critical geographic research and introductory materials that public audiences encounter, limiting the impact of recent debates and knowledge in the discipline. In this article, multimedia is not just a teaching tool, but a revisable and more easily updatable method of integrating critical scholarship into foundational curriculum and digital knowledge infrastructures. Drawing from three examples designed in ArcGIS StoryMaps related to cartography and mapping, open educational resources, and collaborative, vignette-based examples, we show how multimedia design can more robustly integrate decolonial and critical perspectives in education.