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Feminism and GIS


Feminism and GIS refers to the use of geographic information system (GIS) for feminist research and also how women influence GIS at technological stages. Feminist GIS research is aware of power differences in social and economic realms.

Feminist GIS is considered part of a larger discourse on Feminist Geography, critical cartography, and critical GIS, arenas of study that has been ongoing since the 1990s and before that critiques the acceptance of GIS as a practice for producing neutral and objective representations of space. Feminist GIS scholars are especially concerned with "whether GIS methods are inherently incompatible with feminist epistemologies through interrogating their connection with positivist scientific practices and visualization technologies." Feminist geographers, in general, "recognize the partiality and situatedness of all knowledge and the importance of critical reflections on one's subject position relative to research participants, the research process, and the knowledge produced (reflexivity)."

In practice, researchers have found that Volunteered geographic information research can be influenced by feminism and GIS, along with critical and participatory GIS, to produce socially inclusive development and research.



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