New Lines: Critical GIS and the Trouble of the Map

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 177-179
Author(s):  
Matthew W. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Critical Gis

Speculative and constructively critical GIS

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jim E. Thatcher ◽  
Luke Bergmann ◽  
David O'Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Critical Gis

Use of Qualitative Methods to Examine GIS Planning and Management in the Context of E-Governance

2018 ◽  
pp. 582-600
Author(s):  
Falguni Mukherjee
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Gis Technology ◽  
Critical Gis ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Planning And Management ◽  
Institutional Contexts ◽  
The Government ◽  
Contextual Environment

Critical GIS recognizes that GIS technology is socially constructed and emphasizes the key role of various socio-political and institutional contexts in shaping GIS knowledge production. This article focusses on the use of GIS in the context of e-governance in India. In recent years the massive proliferation of ICTs in India has led to a transformation from traditional governance to e – governance. Several planning projects have been launched under the rubric of e-governance and have witnessed novel use of various information technologies, GIS being one of them. The theoretical framework used in this study draws from the Critical GIS body of literature that calls for taking a holistic approach to GIS examination by coupling the internal contexts with the external contextual environment shaping an organization's GIS planning and management. In order to achieve this goal qualitative methods of inquiry are adopted to investigate a municipal e-governance project launched by the Government of Karnataka to address issues of urban development using GIS.

Critical GIS

2012 ◽  
pp. 87-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Elwood ◽  
Nadine Schuurman ◽  
Matthew W. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Critical Gis

scholarly journals Geographic inequities in local higher education opportunities? : identifying college deserts with critical GIS

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Christopher Krause
Keyword(s):  
Postsecondary Education ◽  
College Access ◽  
Spatial Scales ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Critical Gis ◽  
Education Access ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
Python Programming ◽  
Aid Policy

In a world where one's future is heavily impacted by having postsecondary education, access to college is a pertinent research topic. Access is a widely researched topic, but only recently has college access been studied specifically. This study proposes a geographic information systems based methodology for quantifying college access at multiple spatial scales. This methodology was implemented with the Python programming language and ArcGIS. A sample of six metropolitan statistical areas were identified and analyzed using the developed methodology. Within this sample, college access varied primarily by socio-economic status although some variation between race/ethnicity was identified. Further research is needed to assess whether these trends are generalizable. Quantification of college access will aid policy-makers to prepare reforms to reduce the inequity of college access.

E-Planning Through the Wisconsin Land Information Program

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrice Day ◽  
Rina Ghose
Keyword(s):  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Records Management ◽  
Budget Deficits ◽  
State Budget ◽  
Critical Gis ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
Funding Mechanism ◽  
Information Program ◽  
History Of ◽  
Local Government Level

Through the lenses of Critical GIS and political economy, this paper examines the history of the Wisconsin Land Information Program (WLIP), which was created in 1989 and provides an early US example of the adoption of GIS at the local government level. Using a mixed methods approach and a case study design, the authors focus on the cooperation and conflicts among various actors and networks, at and between scales, during times of plentiful and lean resources. Catalyzed by the 1978 Larsen Report, the WLIP was unique in its inclusiveness of everyone involved in land records management. University academics brought together all the stakeholders to create a thematic and territorial network with political power and a unique funding mechanism. As land use planning and state budget deficits became prominent, the program became a target, leading to conflict and power struggles, particularly with the state Department of Administration (DOA). What began as an egalitarian, grass-roots, socially just, forward-thinking program has shape-shifted, and while the WLIP is still a viable and functioning program, its egalitarian goals have been subverted by economics.

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