Call for Papers - RGS 2024 - Creative Participatory Mapping for Environmental Change
Climate and environmental change continue to represent the most pressing existential threat to humanity. The precarity and uncertainty it engenders necessitates a need for participatory approaches which can (re)map human-environment relations as they continue to shift and evolve. Creative participatory mapping for climate and environmental change represents a novel and exciting approach to bridge different interdisciplinary perspectives and forms of knowledge in order to identify, challenge and address environmental concerns. This session therefore focuses on exploring the interdisciplinary challenges and success faced by those engaging in creative participatory mapping and future directions for those undertaking mapping research.
Practically speaking participatory mapping is fraught with methodological challenges necessitating creative uncertainties, often raising unique ethical questions which can create barriers to undertake such research (Laituri et al., 2023; Blunt, 2003). However, the theory and practice of participatory mapping has expanded significantly over the last two decades with a growing body of research that explores its wide range of methods and applications (Brown & Kytta, 2018). As a creative method within geography mapping has been an important tool for engaging participants in thinking creatively about place (von Benzon, 2023). Often creative forms of mapping have been used to highlight and address issues of injustice, with innovative explorations of activist artists contributing anti-colonial forms of counter-mapping (Cobarrubias & Pickles, 2008) or research which highlights the experiences of different repressed bodies (Brown & Knopp, 2008; Rye & Kurniawan, 2017).
Participatory mapping has also been an important tool for understanding environmental change, where it is used to generate local knowledge which can inform decision-making processes (Klonner et al., 2020); make visible counter-narratives to human-environment relationships (Forrester et al 2015; Sletto 2009); empower local communities (Hossen, 2016; Henly-Shepardet al., 2015) and bring marginalized people into conversations around the environment (Robinson et al., 2016). The importance of exploring participatory mapping for environmental change is therefore emphasised in its versatility in bringing together different bodies of knowledge and their creation to identify, challenge and address environmental concerns.
In response, this session invites interactive papers or practical mapping exercises which explore the creative ways in which mapping can generate new environmental data, engage audiences, generate new environmental policy or address environmental and climate issues. We envisage this session to be a mixture of presentations and interactive engagement with participatory mapping. We welcome contributions from a range of disciplines including but not limited to, geography, cultural geography, art, sociology, social science, history, climate science, environmental science, GIS. We are particularly interested in perspectives which work across disciplines and the tensions that emerge from participatory mapping.
Please email a title, abstract, and keywords, along with details of all authors, to [log in to unmask] Deadline for submissions is the 12th of February.
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