Social Cartography as a Participative and Collaborative Research Methodology in the Upper Basin of the Cauca River

Autor: Irene Velez Torres, Sandra Rátiva Gaona, Daniel Varela Corredor
Jazyk: English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />Portuguese
Rok vydání: 2012
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Zdroj: Cuadernos de Geografía: Revista Colombiana de Geografía, Vol 21, Iss 2, Pp 59-73 (2012)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 0121-215X
2256-5442
Popis: This article explores the opportunities and challenges given by social cartography as a participatory and collaborative methodology to characterize the socio-environmental conflicts in three areas of the upper basin of the Cauca River, Colombia. The text is organized in five parts: (i) introduction to the article, (ii) description of the problem and the research context, (iii) presentation of the ethnographic context and methodological decisions, (iv) reflection on the cartographic process and products, and (iv) conclusions on the main methodological challenges identified during the development of the research.
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