Participatory Uses of Geospatial Technologies to Leverage Multiple Knowledge Systems within Development Contexts: A Case Study from the Peruvian Amazon

Jason Young and Michael Gilmore

World Development, 2017, vol. 93, issue C, 389-401

Abstract: Participatory approaches have proven effective at producing more inclusive and democratic forms of development, in which marginalized groups are given increased recognition. However, these approaches can also reinforce social hierarchies and political exclusion if they are not developed and implemented carefully. In particular, participatory approaches can be problematic if they too simplistically conceptualize democratic engagement as the folding of individuals into pre-existing governance structures. Utilizing a combination of feminist and postcolonial theories, this paper argues that practitioners of participatory methods must extend their thinking to the ways in which their projects foster engagement across multiple social and epistemological perspectives.

Keywords: digital empowerment; geographic information systems; geospatial Web; indigenous resistance; participatory research (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.01.007

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