Care of the Subject: Feminism and Critiques of GIS

Schuurman, Nadine; Pratt, Geraldine

doi:10.1080/0966369022000003905

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“…These GIS scholars agreed with many of the critiques of GIS, but disagreed that the criticism necessitated such a division in the discipline (see Flowerdew 1998, Hanson 2002, Schuurman and Pratt 2002. Instead they sought to show how GIS could be used for feminist inquiry within geography, public health, political science, and other academic disciplines.…”

Section: Feminism and Mappingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Human geographers are critical of predictive modeling for ignoring subjectivities inherent in the data represented (see Schuurman 2002, Schuurman andPratt 2002). GIS creates visualizations that appear to have mutually exclusive categories of data because data entered is categorically conclusive and uncontestable in its representative form within a GIS.…”

Section: Feminism and Mappingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…It follows Newton who views spatiality as absolute conceptualizations, representing space as independent spatial features (e.g., discrete vector features or raster cells), rather than Einstein and Leibnitz who view space as relational [31]. Therefore, traditional GIS has often been criticized for its inadequacy in representing relational spaces of social power and subjective differences among its analyzed objects [26,32]. It lacks the power to enable researchers to understand neighborhood-level knowledge about the lived experiences of local people, or social ties and attachments of local people to their communities [33].…”

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Towards Enhancing Integrated Pest Management Based on Volunteered Geographic Information

Yan

Feng

Chang

2017

IJGI

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Integrated pest management (IPM) involves integrating multiple pest control methods based on site information obtained through inspection, monitoring, and reports. IPM has been deployed to achieve the judicious use of pesticides and has become one of the most important methods of securing agricultural productivity. Despite the efforts made to strengthen IPM during the past decades, overuse as well as indiscriminate use of pesticides is still common. This problem is particularly serious in underserved farming communities which suffer from ineffectiveness with respect to pest management information collection and dissemination. The recent development of volunteered geographic information (VGI) offers an opportunity to the general public to create and receive ubiquitous, cost-effective, and timely geospatial information. Therefore, this study proposes to enhance IPM through establishing a VGI-based IPM. As a starting point of this line of research, this study explored how such geospatial information can contribute to IPM enhancement. Based on this, a conceptual framework of VGI interaction was built to guide the establishment of VGI-based IPM. To implement VGI-based IPM, a mobile phone platform was developed. In addition, a case study was conducted in the town of Shuibian in Jiangxi province of China to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach. In the case study, by analyzing infestation incidents of an overwintering outbreak of striped rice stem borers voluntarily reported by farmers through mobile phones, spatiotemporal infestation patterns of the borers throughout the study area were revealed and disseminated to the farmers. These patterns include the dates and degree-days the pest infestations intensified, and the orientation or spatial structural variations of the clustering of the infestations. This case study showcased the unique merit of VGI in enhancing IPM, namely the acquisition of previously unrecorded spatial data in a cost-effective and real-time manner for discovering and disseminating previously unknown pest management knowledge.

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“…Here, the concern is that researchers will make inappropriately generalized truth claims based on their specific perceptual experiences (Abu-Lughod 1999; Schuurman and Pratt 2002). Law (1999), for example, emphasized that although feminist-inspired scholarship on mobility has made female urban movement more visible (cf.…”

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Walking as Method: Toward Methodological Forthrightness and Comparability in Urban Geographical Research

Pierce

Lawhon

2015

The Professional Geographer

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Qualitative urban geographical research should explicitly acknowledge insights gained from walking (the iterative exploration and observation of cities on foot), which enhances local literacy and enables researchers to compare methods more explicitly. Some urban geographers might use walking as a method, but it is rarely reported in published scholarship. This article argues for the explicit inclusion of walking in methodological reporting for urban research. We suggest that reporting the walking that researchers do adds rigor to research findings and should be distinguished from research where this practice is absent, we report on international experiences using walking in combination with other methods, and we conclude with a proposal for comparable urban geographic walking practices.

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Care of the Subject: Feminism and Critiques of GIS

Cited by 139 publications

References 28 publications

Intangible Heritage and Tourism Development at the Tsodilo World Heritage Site

Intangible Heritage and Tourism Development at the Tsodilo World Heritage Site

Towards Enhancing Integrated Pest Management Based on Volunteered Geographic Information

Walking as Method: Toward Methodological Forthrightness and Comparability in Urban Geographical Research

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