Space, politics, calculation: an introduction

Crampton, Jeremy W.; Elden, Stuart

doi:10.1080/14649360600971168

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“…Some believe that by relying on quantitative sources of information, GITs lead to reductionist and technocratic forms of understanding (Crampton & Elden, 2006;Pickles, 2006;Sheppard, 1995). For example, Wainwright and Bryan (2009) note the potential cartographic limitations posed by GITs when representing cultural and traditional knowledge.…”

Section: Barriers To Participatory Approaches In Vulnerability and Hamentioning

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Using partial participatory GIS in vulnerability and disaster risk reduction in Grenada

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Choutet

et al. 2015

Climate and Development

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This paper describes the findings of a novel participatory geographic information systems (PGISs) methodology designed to support vulnerability and disaster risk management (DRM) efforts in small Caribbean communities. The methodology combines community vulnerability mapping with geo-referenced household data through a step-by-step approach to record information on household vulnerability and community hazards. We used "partial" PGIS to demonstrate the benefits of implementing a participatory mapping technique with an external facilitator who undertook the technical geographic information system aspects of the mapping process. Results show that as a tool for knowledge co-production and stakeholder engagement, PGIS can be useful to record local spatial knowledge on vulnerability and hazards whilst supporting the development of risk and vulnerability reduction measures. By helping community members understand and manage vulnerability, this approach has the potential to become an important mechanism to support vulnerability reduction and DRM strategies in small Caribbean communities. Following the approach described in this paper, similar activities can be easily replicated in other parts of the world.

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Section: Barriers To Participatory Approaches In Vulnerability and Hamentioning

confidence: 97%

Using partial participatory GIS in vulnerability and disaster risk reduction in Grenada

Canevari-Luzardo

Bastide²,

Choutet

et al. 2015

Climate and Development

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“…Drawing on Michel Foucault's writings on governmentality, Thomas Osbourne and Nikolas Rose trace the effects of a range of political and governmental techniques in producing an urban space for the regulation and modulation of individual behavior Rose 1999, 2004; see also Crampton and Elden 2006;Huxley 2006). Through this theorization, they develop an understanding of the city of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as a space of governance, a 'way of diagramming human existence, human conduct, [and] human subjectivity .…”

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The work that parks do: towards an urban environmentality

Gabriel

2011

Social & Cultural Geography

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Cities today are typically framed as sites of capitalist development, while the urban park is theorized as an indirect response to the emerging hegemony of industrial production in the nineteenth century. Yet, this historical framing tells us little about the process through which our notions of 'the city' and of 'nature' are produced, or how this knowledge affects the formation of urban people's identities. The discursive formation of the capitalist city can be traced to specific historical moments, one of which is the construction of urban parks during the mid-to late-nineteenth century, which I argue was instrumental in producing a new knowledge of the capitalist city by creating a boundary between the social space of the city and the natural space of the park. Using Philadelphia's Fairmount Park as a case study, I draw on archival photographs and annual park commission reports to explore the formation of park subjects during this period and shed light on diverse economic practices that were once widespread in and around the city but whose erasure was ultimately a prerequisite for the successful formation of an urban discourse organized around the construction of the city/nature boundary.

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“…With such admonitions in mind, my narrative hinges on one traditional craft-skill of the geographer-"geostatistics"-a particularly contested one in historiographies of Western geography as well as contemporary U.S. geography (Hannah 2000;Crampton 2003;Crampton and Elden 2006). The first question that arises is why an explicit interest in statistics was eliminated from the AGS's agenda after its first two decades.…”

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Charles P. Daly's Gendered Geography, 1860–1890

Morin

2008

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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Space, politics, calculation: an introduction

Cited by 70 publications

References 5 publications

Using partial participatory GIS in vulnerability and disaster risk reduction in Grenada

Using partial participatory GIS in vulnerability and disaster risk reduction in Grenada

The work that parks do: towards an urban environmentality

Charles P. Daly's Gendered Geography, 1860–1890

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