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Biblioteca GIS and the ‘Usual Suspects’-[Mis]understanding Land Use Change in Cambodia

GIS and the ‘Usual Suspects’-[Mis]understanding Land Use Change in Cambodia

GIS and the ‘Usual Suspects’-[Mis]understanding Land Use Change in Cambodia

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Date of publication
Dezembro 2014
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ISBN / Resource ID
AGRIS:US201400160364
Pages
267-281

GIS-RS techniques offer great potential for providing insights into the spatiality and temporality of the messy realties of deforestation. However, rather than positing that the land use maps produced using these novel technologies can cut through politics, it is argued that the map is merely an artifact of the broader process of land use planning which is constitutive of politics. This article critically reflects on a major land use mapping exercise that the two authors were involved with, in central Cambodia. It argues that GIS analysts need to go beyond merely a concern for ‘the local’, and have their own ‘honest’ teleologies that can navigate the complexities of environmental politics. This article shows how particular categorizations of land use that the analyst creates in accordance with their own desires and the technical limitations of GIS, are often bound up in techniques of government.

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Frewer, Tim
Chan, Sopheak

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