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100 _aRadil, Steven M.
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245 _aRethinking PGIS: Participatory or (post)political GIS?/
260 _bSage,
_c2019.
300 _aVol 43, issue 2, 2019 : (195-213 p.).
520 _aParticipatory GIS (PGIS) emerged from the contentious GIS debates of the 1990s as a means of political intervention in issues of social and environmental justice. PGIS has since matured into a distinct subfield in which GIS is used to enhance the political engagement of historically marginalized people and to shape political outcomes through mapping. However, this has proven to be difficult work. We suggest that this is because PGIS, particularly in its community development incarnations, though well-intentioned in endeavoring to enhance the voices of the excluded, is inherently limited because it primarily aims to enhance the inclusion and participation of the historically marginalized by working within established frameworks of institutionalized governance in particular places. This, we suggest, has left this mode of PGIS ill-equipped to truly challenge the political-economic structures responsible for (re)producing the very conditions of socio-economic inequality it strives to ameliorate. As a result, we argue that PGIS has become de-politicized, operating within, rather than disrupting, existing spheres of political-economic power. Moving forward, we suggest that PGIS is in need of being retheorized by engaging with the emergent post-politics literature and related areas of critical social and political theory. We argue that by adopting a more radical conception of democracy, justice, and ‘the political’, PGIS praxis can be recentered around disruption rather than participation and, ultimately, brought closer to its self-proclaimed goal of supporting progressive change for the historically marginalized.
650 _aconsensus, governance,
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650 _a participatory GIS,
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650 _a participatory research,
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650 _apost-politics,
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650 _astakeholder collaboration
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700 _aAnderson, Matthew B.
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_dLondon: Sage Publication Ltd, 2019.
_tProgress in human geography/
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856 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1177/0309132517750774
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