The complexities of citizen participation through collaborative governance

Ghose, Rina

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“…A growing responsibility of citizens and civic institutions corresponding to the neoliberal goal of greater institutional efficiency, which is usually not accompanied by increasing resources, influence and power (Ghose, 2005). 2.…”

Section: Citizen Participation In Neoliberalizing Citiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Public Participation in Post-Fordist Urban Green Space Governance: The Case of Community Gardens in Berlin

Viana-Cárdenas¹

2014

HabitatySociedad

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SummaryThis article examines citizen participation in the governance of contemporary urban green space. Rather than exploring normative questions of ideal forms of participatory democracy, it focuses on changing roles and relationships between local state and non-state actors in order to identify and explain the changing nature of participation. I argue that neoliberal urban restructuring has changed the conditions for participation and thus participation itself in fundamental ways and that we need an account of changes in statehood and governance in order to capture this conceptually. Based on the case of community gardens in Berlin, the article discusses the extent to which this changed relationship is expressed by current citizen participation as well as the potential and problems that result from it. My empirical results show the emergence of a new political acceptance of autonomously organized projects and active citizen participation in urban green space governance. The central argument of this article is that this new acceptance can be conceptualized as an expression of the neoliberalization of cities. Nevertheless, this neoliberal strategy at the same time leads to complex and contradictory outcomes and the resulting benefits are also acknowledged.

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Section: Citizen Participation In Neoliberalizing Citiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Public Participation in Post-Fordist Urban Green Space Governance: The Case of Community Gardens in Berlin

Viana-Cárdenas¹

2014

HabitatySociedad

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“…A key inquiry in the PPGIS literature is to examine in what ways spatial knowledge is produced, by whom, and how this process may shape power relations among different social groups (Sieber 2006 ;Tulloch 2007 ;Ghose 2007 ;Elwood 2009 ) . PPGIS practices have contradictory outcomes, simultaneously empowering and disempowering with shifting boundaries of inclusions and exclusions (Weiner and Harris 2003 ;Elwood 2004 ;Ghose 2005 ) . There are also discussions of possible spatial data abuse and invasion of personal privacy (Pickles 2004 ;Sui 2006 ) .…”

Section: Vgi and Ppgis: Convergences And Divergencesmentioning

confidence: 98%

When Web 2.0 Meets Public Participation GIS (PPGIS): VGI and Spaces of Participatory Mapping in China

Lin

2012

Crowdsourcing Geographic Knowledge

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While existing studies provide important insights into power relations and spatial knowledge production impacted by volunteered geographic information (VGI), this chapter argues that more research is needed to investigate how these new geospatial technologies have constituted the actor's subjectivities and the politics of citizen participation. Drawing upon public participation GIS (PPGIS) studies, critical GIS research and critical social theory, this chapter examines the mutual and complex relationships between subject formation and geospatial technology development and their implications for spaces and politics of citizen participation in a variety of contexts. A case study in China is presented with three examples of VGI mapping drawn from ethnographic fi eldwork. These VGI practices in China have constituted multiple "DigiPlaces," a notion proposed by Matt Zook and Mark Graham that is characterized by greater visibility with automatic production, increased individualism, and dynamism. Furthermore, these practices are simultaneously impacted by the complex process of subject constitution, informed by Mark Poster's notion of "the mode of information," marked by the proliferation of electronic communications that helps to constitute multiple subjectivities. In particular, coupling with rapid Internet and new communication technology developments, Chinese citizenship witnessed growing awareness of individual rights and more decentered self-identities compared to two decades ago. As such, new spaces of citizen participation are constructed by these VGI practices; however, signi fi cant challenges remain regarding the intersection of possibilities and existing economic and sociopolitical inequalities.

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“…However, public participation has also been recognized as being a complex and contested process [18][19][20]. In particular, concerns have been centered upon issues including marginalized groups, effectiveness of participation approaches, and to what extent citizens are empowered in the participation process [21][22][23][24]. The introduction of computer-based systems such as public participation GIS (PPGIS) was intended to address some of these challenges by providing integrated platforms for informing, creating, and sharing spatial knowledge [25,26].…”

Section: Use Of Geosocial Media In Local Governmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding Public Opinions from Geosocial Media

Zhang

Feick

2016

IJGI

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Increasingly, social media data are linked to locations through embedded GPS coordinates. Many local governments are showing interest in the potential to repurpose these firsthand geo-data to gauge spatial and temporal dynamics of public opinions in ways that complement information collected through traditional public engagement methods. Using these geosocial data is not without challenges since they are usually unstructured, vary in quality, and often require considerable effort to extract information that is relevant to local governments' needs from large data volumes. Understanding local relevance requires development of both data processing methods and their use in empirical studies. This paper addresses this latter need through a case study that demonstrates how spatially-referenced Twitter data can shed light on citizens' transportation and planning concerns. A web-based toolkit that integrates text processing methods is used to model Twitter data collected for the Region of Waterloo (Ontario, Canada) between March 2014 and July 2015 and assess citizens' concerns related to the planning and construction of a new light rail transit line. The study suggests that geosocial media can help identify geographies of public perceptions concerning public facilities and services and have potential to complement other methods of gauging public sentiment.

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The complexities of citizen participation through collaborative governance

Cited by 103 publications

References 42 publications

Public Participation in Post-Fordist Urban Green Space Governance: The Case of Community Gardens in Berlin

Public Participation in Post-Fordist Urban Green Space Governance: The Case of Community Gardens in Berlin

When Web 2.0 Meets Public Participation GIS (PPGIS): VGI and Spaces of Participatory Mapping in China

Understanding Public Opinions from Geosocial Media

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