scholarly journals Coproducing Urban Governance

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liz Richardson ◽  
Catherine Durose ◽  
Beth Perry
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Democratic Values ◽  
Local Practices ◽  
Daunting Task ◽  
Fit For Purpose ◽  
Forms Of Knowledge

There are many critiques of existing forms of urban governance as not fit for purpose. However, what alternatives might look like is equally contested. Coproduction is proposed as a response to address complex wicked issues. Achieving coproduction is a highly complex and daunting task. Bottom up approaches to the initiation of coproduced governance are seen as fruitful, including exemplification of utopian alternatives though local practices. New ways of seeing the role of conflict in participation are needed, including ways to institutionalise agonistic participatory practices. Coproduction in governance drives demands for forms of knowledge production that are themselves coproductive. New urban governing spaces need to be coproduced through participative transformation requiring experimentation and innovation in re-designing urban knowledge architectures. Future research in this field is proposed which is nuanced, grounded in explicit weightings of different democratic values, and which mediates between recognition of contingency and the ability to undertake comparative analysis.

scholarly journals Organising for Co-Production: Local Interaction Platforms for Urban Sustainability

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 189-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beth Perry ◽  
Zarina Patel ◽  
Ylva Norén Bretzer ◽  
Merritt Polk
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
Necessary Conditions ◽  
Urban Sustainability ◽  
Context Sensitivity ◽  
Local Interaction ◽  
European Cities ◽  
Local Practices ◽  
Design And Practice ◽  
Forms Of Knowledge

Urban sustainability is a wicked issue unsuited to management through traditional decision-making structures. Co-productive arrangements, spaces and processes are inscribed in new organisational forms to bridge between diverse forms of knowledge and expertise. This article suggests that <em>local interaction platforms </em>(LIPs)<em> </em>are innovative responses to these challenges, developed in two African and two European cities between 2010 and 2014. Through elaborating the design and practice of the LIPs, the article concludes that the value of this approach lies in its context-sensitivity and iterative flexibility to articulate between internationally shared challenges and distinctive local practices. Six necessary conditions for the evolution of LIPs are presented: anchorage, co-constitution, context-sensitivity, alignment, connection and shared functions. In the context of increased uncertainty, complexity and the demand for transdisciplinary knowledge production, the <em>platform</em> concept has wider relevance in surfacing the challenges and possibilities for more adaptive urban governance.

Walking, knowing, and the limits of the map: performing participatory cartographies in indigenous landscapes

2021 ◽  
pp. 147447402110344
Author(s):  
Bjørn Sletto ◽  
Gerónimo Barrera de la Torre ◽  
Alexandra Magaly Lamina Luguana ◽  
Davi Pereira Júnior
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Participatory Mapping ◽  
Participatory Processes ◽  
Indigenous Methodologies ◽  
Critical Understanding ◽  
Forms Of Knowledge

Post-representational cartography views maps as inherently unstable and unfinished, always in the making and thus singularly open for refolding and re-presentation. This perspective on maps calls for greater attention to the performances, negotiations, and contestations that occur during the ongoing production of maps, particularly in cases where maps are developed during collective, collaborative, and participatory processes in indigenous landscapes riven by conflict and struggle. In the following, we examine the role of walking for the continual (re)making of participatory maps, specifically engaging with work in indigenous methodologies to consider how an emphasis on performativity in map-makings may foster a post-representational perspective on indigenous cartographies. We understand walking as map-making, a form of knowledge production generated by performative and situated storytelling along paths and in places filled with meaning. Drawing on a critical understanding of ‘invitation’ and ‘crossing’, we build on our experiences from participatory mapping projects in Mexico, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Brazil to explore the ways in which the material, performative crossings of bodies through indigenous landscapes may inspire new forms of knowledge production and destabilize Cartesian cartographic colonialities.

Dynamic Boundaries

2021 ◽  
pp. 269-286
Author(s):  
Louise Bezuidenhout ◽  
Dori Beeler
Keyword(s):  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Practice Of Science ◽  
Forms Of Knowledge

Historically, ethics discourse has reinforced the “othering” of the scientist as an individual who is different, held separate from society and other forms of knowledge production. This othering results in boundary creation that is contingent on where the lines are drawn and by whom. This presents an interesting challenge to current ethics discourse, necessitating flexibility and contextuality. In this challenge, virtue ethics can make a significant contribution. By focusing on boundary ethics, the infinitely variable social practice of science is presented as a negotiation of ever-changing boundaries. Subsequently, the scientist is understood as a morally robust individual who can flexibly deal with the fluctuating spaces created by boundaries without changing their ethical integrity. As such, understanding the role of boundaries affords a very different interpretation of what science is.

scholarly journals Fracking and epistemic injustice: A feminist critique of knowledge formation

2021 ◽  
pp. 239965442110364
Author(s):  
Yasminah Beebeejaun
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Women Activists ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Feminist Critique ◽  
Noise Levels ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Knowledge Formation ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Forms Of Knowledge

The expansion of fracking, an intensive form of hydrocarbon extraction, has been met with increasing public hostility, spanning a diverse range of interests and political allegiances. However, to date, few authors have engaged with the role of gender and women activists. In this paper, I consider how gender and gendered ideas have been used as a resource to underpin fracking protests in the USA and UK. I find that a problematic gendered binary has emerged that undermined the veracity of anti-fracking protestors’ opposition and aligns with modes of planning governance that valorize universal and objective forms of knowledge. Drawing upon a feminist epistemological stance, I turn to a planning dispute over noise levels in Lancashire, England, to explore the limits to current forms of knowledge production. I argue that specific actors, behaviours, and forms of knowledge become framed as gendered and unreliable in the sphere of technical decision making, diminishing our understanding of the complexities of human experience and subjectivity within spatial planning.

Conclusion: food charity in Europe

2020 ◽  
pp. 219-242
Author(s):  
Hannah Lambie-Mumford ◽  
Tiina Silvasti
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Welfare Provision ◽  
The Social ◽  
Food Charity ◽  
Research And Policy

This final chapter provides a comparative analysis of several key themes across the case studies. These are: the nature and scale of food charity in Europe; relationships between changes in welfare provision and the growth of food charity and the shifting role of charity more generally across the cases; the role of food supply in shaping food charity; and the social justice implications of changing welfare states and the growth of food charity. The chapter ends by setting out the implications of this evidence base for future research and policy analysis.

scholarly journals Decolonizing Knowledge. Starting Points, Consequences and Challenges

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-25
Author(s):  
Iris Clemens
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
North American ◽  
Actual Process ◽  
Educational Science ◽  
Creative Processes ◽  
European North ◽  
Collective Creativity ◽  
Indian Epistemology ◽  
Forms Of Knowledge

The call for the decolonization of knowledge refers to both its colonization and contingency and puts the focus on the multiplicity of knowledge. This contradicts European-North-American thinking and definitions of knowledge. Consequently, to advance an epistemological decolonization of knowledge, the actual process of defining knowledge will be analysed and the multiplicity of perspectives stressed at the epistemological level. Using Indian epistemology as an example, I will work out differences in definitions of knowledge and therefore basic diversifications in describing and explaining the emergence of knowledge. Truth-value-neutral forms of knowledge in particular challenge dominant European-North-American philosophical definitions, which incontrovertibly include assumptions of true or false knowledge. An interesting overlap between some Indian epistemologies and postcolonial theories can be observed with regards to the central role of the contextualization of knowledge production and the socially embodied nature of scientific knowledge in general. If the incentives gained are to be taken seriously, the consequences for educational science in general as well as educational practices must be discussed. According to the findings of organizational theory, emphasis on diversification and complication is also seen as an opportunity for the emergence of fresh meaning. Referring to Helen Verran’s concept of generative tension as a sign of collective creativity, encounters between diverse forms of knowledge and epistemological principles are seen as sources of creative processes and prerequisite for the emergence of new positions, perspectives etc., and thus as incubators for innovations.

Exploring the Complexities of Community Engaged GIS

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 87-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Falguni Mukherjee ◽  
Rina Ghose
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Spatial Knowledge ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Participatory Gis ◽  
Community Residents ◽  
The Town ◽  
Power Position

Participatory GIS projects are increasingly popular in urban governance. This paper explores the complexities of a community involved pilot project that was implemented in the town of Verona, Wisconsin and critically examines their GIS (Geographic Information Systems) practices and the support structures that played an important role in facilitating GIS use. The paper first traces the evolution of the project, and the role of the various actors in shaping it and then shows that relations between key institutions and actors played a crucial role in shaping the pilot project. While inherently supportive, these actors occupied a dominant power position, setting a top down tone to the project from its onset. As such, the project simultaneously enhanced and constricted the process of participation and spatial knowledge production of the community residents.

scholarly journals Differing perspectives on a role for technology in care homes to improve the lives of older people and the work environment of staff

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 84-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deidre Wild ◽  
Ala Szczepura ◽  
Clive Bowman ◽  
Angela Kydd ◽  
Richard Wallis
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Care Home ◽  
Care Homes ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Technology Advancement ◽  
Fit For Purpose

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to place the future development of technology within the existing reality of the diversity of care homes. Design/methodology/approach – Using the findings from a learning exercise, the paper illustrates “diversity” in terms of the meaning staff, relatives, and residents attach to the words “care home”. This tri-partite approach provides a basis for exploring types of technology that could, if appropriately introduced, prove to be of benefit to the different users and staff. Findings – Technology is more likely to be “fit for purpose” when it has been developed jointly with those who work, live in, and who visit care homes. Costs and benefits will be issues to be taken into account. Research limitations/implications – A lack of research evidence on the role of technology in care homes was a key limitation. In future, research should adopt a co-production approach to technology development. Practical implications – The authors take a pragmatic stance that if due care is taken in preparations for and the introduction of technology, this would increase uptake of technology to meet different needs. Social implications – The paper makes the points that: older people can learn new technological skills; the concept of care homes as user-led is in accord with increased opportunity to engage residents in new technology. Technology in care homes while posing challenges also could prove to be a major lucrative market. Originality/value – By triangulating the perspectives of residents, relatives, and staff the authors hope to have presented a realistic and evidence-based overview of the potential for technology advancement in care homes.

Connecting Diasporic Threads and Suggestions for Future Research

2019 ◽  
pp. 104-114
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Political Mobilization ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Transnational Community ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Diasporic Communities

This chapter summarizes the classical (or old) and psychological/affective (or new) characterization of diaspora and the establishment of diasporic communities in the modern age. The chapter provides greater insight into the role of the nation-state in diasporic relations in the contemporary transnational community. The author provides suggestions for future research on diaspora and diasporic political mobilization and recommends a greater focus on comparative analysis of diasporic communities which would provide for an increased awareness of the differences among diasporas and the struggles those communities face in both homeland and host country.

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