The global encounter between critical and participatory GIS and postdevelopment is generating post-dualist and post-positivist approaches to GIS-based policy information. This study investigates the accessibility and agency of a FLOSS-based participatory GIS design workflow for a non-expert and low-resource user, within a paradigm of postdevelopment in practice. It articulates 14 GIS practices through 3 FLOSS technological resources (Ubuntu OS, LibreOffice and QGIS). The workflow is derived from a 10-week internship at the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) involving the participation in daily activities and the creation of a web map of AFSA's case studies on agroecology. The research reports the complexity, the unintended agency and the collaborative potential for problem resolution within a FLOSS and open data environment. Besides, the collective discussion and piloting of the web map creation highlights the proactive engagement of postdevelopment 'intuitions' within GIS practice, while adjusting to a contextual critique of the 'development' discourse. Hence, the results support the relevance of negotiation and of sharing experiences within and outside of a workflow creation to inform GIS practices through contextual evidence and relationality. Such a process of knowledge emergence is found consistent with a deconstruction of the divide between the researcher and the research community for the generation of pluriversal policy information.
Anotace v angličtině
The global encounter between critical and participatory GIS and postdevelopment is generating post-dualist and post-positivist approaches to GIS-based policy information. This study investigates the accessibility and agency of a FLOSS-based participatory GIS design workflow for a non-expert and low-resource user, within a paradigm of postdevelopment in practice. It articulates 14 GIS practices through 3 FLOSS technological resources (Ubuntu OS, LibreOffice and QGIS). The workflow is derived from a 10-week internship at the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) involving the participation in daily activities and the creation of a web map of AFSA's case studies on agroecology. The research reports the complexity, the unintended agency and the collaborative potential for problem resolution within a FLOSS and open data environment. Besides, the collective discussion and piloting of the web map creation highlights the proactive engagement of postdevelopment 'intuitions' within GIS practice, while adjusting to a contextual critique of the 'development' discourse. Hence, the results support the relevance of negotiation and of sharing experiences within and outside of a workflow creation to inform GIS practices through contextual evidence and relationality. Such a process of knowledge emergence is found consistent with a deconstruction of the divide between the researcher and the research community for the generation of pluriversal policy information.
Klíčová slova
Postdevelopment, Pluriverse, GIS design, Participatory GIS, Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS), Policy Information
Klíčová slova v angličtině
Postdevelopment, Pluriverse, GIS design, Participatory GIS, Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS), Policy Information
Rozsah průvodní práce
xii, 55
Jazyk
AN
Anotace
The global encounter between critical and participatory GIS and postdevelopment is generating post-dualist and post-positivist approaches to GIS-based policy information. This study investigates the accessibility and agency of a FLOSS-based participatory GIS design workflow for a non-expert and low-resource user, within a paradigm of postdevelopment in practice. It articulates 14 GIS practices through 3 FLOSS technological resources (Ubuntu OS, LibreOffice and QGIS). The workflow is derived from a 10-week internship at the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) involving the participation in daily activities and the creation of a web map of AFSA's case studies on agroecology. The research reports the complexity, the unintended agency and the collaborative potential for problem resolution within a FLOSS and open data environment. Besides, the collective discussion and piloting of the web map creation highlights the proactive engagement of postdevelopment 'intuitions' within GIS practice, while adjusting to a contextual critique of the 'development' discourse. Hence, the results support the relevance of negotiation and of sharing experiences within and outside of a workflow creation to inform GIS practices through contextual evidence and relationality. Such a process of knowledge emergence is found consistent with a deconstruction of the divide between the researcher and the research community for the generation of pluriversal policy information.
Anotace v angličtině
The global encounter between critical and participatory GIS and postdevelopment is generating post-dualist and post-positivist approaches to GIS-based policy information. This study investigates the accessibility and agency of a FLOSS-based participatory GIS design workflow for a non-expert and low-resource user, within a paradigm of postdevelopment in practice. It articulates 14 GIS practices through 3 FLOSS technological resources (Ubuntu OS, LibreOffice and QGIS). The workflow is derived from a 10-week internship at the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) involving the participation in daily activities and the creation of a web map of AFSA's case studies on agroecology. The research reports the complexity, the unintended agency and the collaborative potential for problem resolution within a FLOSS and open data environment. Besides, the collective discussion and piloting of the web map creation highlights the proactive engagement of postdevelopment 'intuitions' within GIS practice, while adjusting to a contextual critique of the 'development' discourse. Hence, the results support the relevance of negotiation and of sharing experiences within and outside of a workflow creation to inform GIS practices through contextual evidence and relationality. Such a process of knowledge emergence is found consistent with a deconstruction of the divide between the researcher and the research community for the generation of pluriversal policy information.
Klíčová slova
Postdevelopment, Pluriverse, GIS design, Participatory GIS, Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS), Policy Information
Klíčová slova v angličtině
Postdevelopment, Pluriverse, GIS design, Participatory GIS, Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS), Policy Information
Zásady pro vypracování
Postdevelopment visualisation entails a process of acknowledgement of the "enduring diversity of socialites; (Klein & Morreo, 2019, p. 8) which compose the imaginary and reality of "development";. In fact, informing policy-making beyond the paradigms of linearity, exogeneity and convergence of contemporary development policy, necessitates the visualisation of already existing alternatives.
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) platforms offer, indeed, a valuable instrument for the plural representation of data trends through a spatial perspective. The necessary and critical process of complexity reduction faced by policy-makers (Umbach, Guidi & Russo, 2018) can benefit from GIS-supported data visualisations which closely relate to the transformative advocacy of postdevelopment scholarship.
Drawing from the McMahon, Smith & Whiteduck´s (2017a, 2017b) workflow approach, the present research investigates the structuring of an accessible GIS design workflow to support a non-professional user in data-driven policy advocacy for postdevelopment with the software QGIS. Namely, the framework involves the organisation of 5 support sections for the process of creation of a visualisation: principles, methodology, data management, visualisation and interpretation.
The research inquires into the 5 essential sections at the crossroad of recent scholarships in postdevelopment, critical GIS and evidence-based policy-making. Specifically, this analytical effort embodies the perspective of quantitative storytelling (Saltelli and Giampietro, 2017) and GIS as a socially build set of practices (Pavlovskaya, 2006; Schuurman, 2009), thus, incorporating uncertainty and conditional interpretation as natural components of evidence-based approaches.
Zásady pro vypracování
Postdevelopment visualisation entails a process of acknowledgement of the "enduring diversity of socialites; (Klein & Morreo, 2019, p. 8) which compose the imaginary and reality of "development";. In fact, informing policy-making beyond the paradigms of linearity, exogeneity and convergence of contemporary development policy, necessitates the visualisation of already existing alternatives.
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) platforms offer, indeed, a valuable instrument for the plural representation of data trends through a spatial perspective. The necessary and critical process of complexity reduction faced by policy-makers (Umbach, Guidi & Russo, 2018) can benefit from GIS-supported data visualisations which closely relate to the transformative advocacy of postdevelopment scholarship.
Drawing from the McMahon, Smith & Whiteduck´s (2017a, 2017b) workflow approach, the present research investigates the structuring of an accessible GIS design workflow to support a non-professional user in data-driven policy advocacy for postdevelopment with the software QGIS. Namely, the framework involves the organisation of 5 support sections for the process of creation of a visualisation: principles, methodology, data management, visualisation and interpretation.
The research inquires into the 5 essential sections at the crossroad of recent scholarships in postdevelopment, critical GIS and evidence-based policy-making. Specifically, this analytical effort embodies the perspective of quantitative storytelling (Saltelli and Giampietro, 2017) and GIS as a socially build set of practices (Pavlovskaya, 2006; Schuurman, 2009), thus, incorporating uncertainty and conditional interpretation as natural components of evidence-based approaches.
Seznam doporučené literatury
Escobar, A. (2020). Pluriversal Politics: the Real and the Possible. Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/pluriversal-politics
Illich, I. (2010). Needs. In W. Sachs (Ed.), The Development Dictionary: A Guide to Knowledge as Power(2nd ed., pp. 95-110). Zed Books.
Klein, E., & Morreo, C. E. (Eds.). (2019). Postdevelopment in Practice: Alternatives, Economies, Ontologies. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429492136
Kothari, A., Salleh, A., Escobar, A., Demaria, F. & Acosta, A. (Eds.). (2019). Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary. Routledge.
McMahon, R., Smith, T. J. & Whiteduck, T. (2017a). An Open Source GIS and Mapping Methodology for Internet Access in Remote and Rural Indigenous Communities. First Mile Connectivity Consortium. http://www.firstmile.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017-FMCC-Open-Source-GIS-Mapping-Methodology-for-Internet-Access.pdf
McMahon, R., Smith, T. J. & Whiteduck, T. (2017b). Reclaiming Geospatial Data and GIS Design for Indigenous-led Telecommunications Policy Advocacy: A Process Discussion of Mapping Broadband Availability in Remote and Northern Regions of Canada. Journal of Information Policy, 7, 423-449. https://doi.org/10.5325/jinfopoli.7.2017.0423
Pavlovskaya, M. (2006). Theorizing with GIS: A Tool for Critical Geographies?. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 38(11), 2003-2020. https://doi.org/10.1068/a37326
QGIS Development Team. (2020). QGIS Geographic Information System (Version 3.16 'Hannover') [Computer software]. QGIS.ORG Association. https://www.qgis.org
Saltelli, A., & Giampietro, M. (2017). What is Wrong With Evidence Based Policy, and How Can It Be Improved?. Futures, 91, 62-71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2016.11.012
Schuurman, N. (2009). Critical GIS. In R. Kitchin & N. Thrift (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (1st ed., Vol. 2, pp. 363-368). Elsevier. https://www.elsevier.com/books/international-encyclopedia-of-human-geography/kitchin/978-0-08-044911-1
Umbach, G., Guidi, C. F. & Russo, M. (2018). Evidence-Based Policy-Making: From Data to Decision-Making. European University Institute. https://doi.org/10.2870/869841
Seznam doporučené literatury
Escobar, A. (2020). Pluriversal Politics: the Real and the Possible. Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/pluriversal-politics
Illich, I. (2010). Needs. In W. Sachs (Ed.), The Development Dictionary: A Guide to Knowledge as Power(2nd ed., pp. 95-110). Zed Books.
Klein, E., & Morreo, C. E. (Eds.). (2019). Postdevelopment in Practice: Alternatives, Economies, Ontologies. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429492136
Kothari, A., Salleh, A., Escobar, A., Demaria, F. & Acosta, A. (Eds.). (2019). Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary. Routledge.
McMahon, R., Smith, T. J. & Whiteduck, T. (2017a). An Open Source GIS and Mapping Methodology for Internet Access in Remote and Rural Indigenous Communities. First Mile Connectivity Consortium. http://www.firstmile.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017-FMCC-Open-Source-GIS-Mapping-Methodology-for-Internet-Access.pdf
McMahon, R., Smith, T. J. & Whiteduck, T. (2017b). Reclaiming Geospatial Data and GIS Design for Indigenous-led Telecommunications Policy Advocacy: A Process Discussion of Mapping Broadband Availability in Remote and Northern Regions of Canada. Journal of Information Policy, 7, 423-449. https://doi.org/10.5325/jinfopoli.7.2017.0423
Pavlovskaya, M. (2006). Theorizing with GIS: A Tool for Critical Geographies?. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 38(11), 2003-2020. https://doi.org/10.1068/a37326
QGIS Development Team. (2020). QGIS Geographic Information System (Version 3.16 'Hannover') [Computer software]. QGIS.ORG Association. https://www.qgis.org
Saltelli, A., & Giampietro, M. (2017). What is Wrong With Evidence Based Policy, and How Can It Be Improved?. Futures, 91, 62-71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2016.11.012
Schuurman, N. (2009). Critical GIS. In R. Kitchin & N. Thrift (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (1st ed., Vol. 2, pp. 363-368). Elsevier. https://www.elsevier.com/books/international-encyclopedia-of-human-geography/kitchin/978-0-08-044911-1
Umbach, G., Guidi, C. F. & Russo, M. (2018). Evidence-Based Policy-Making: From Data to Decision-Making. European University Institute. https://doi.org/10.2870/869841
Přílohy volně vložené
-
Přílohy vázané v práci
ilustrace, mapy
Převzato z knihovny
Ano
Plný text práce
Přílohy
Posudek(y) oponenta
Hodnocení vedoucího
Záznam průběhu obhajoby
Student presented the Introduction/Background of his Thesis - Postdevelopment Policy Information: A GIS Design Workflow for the Pluriverse at first. After this issues student was continuing with introducing methodology, context, data and results of Master Thesis. In the second part of the Thesis defense - the committee was familiarized with the both reviews from supervisor and reviewer. In the end of the presentation student answered the questions/marks published in reviews and the questions from committee.