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Social mapping as a tool for public participation

Social mapping as a tool for public participation Strengthening of the project aspects of social management makes it important to search for mechanisms to involve the population in local and regional development with a view to the peculiarities of the inhabitants’ perception of the territory and community, formal and informal traditions, and the practices of assistance and participation. The article considers spatial research methods rarely used in the Russian practice-joint social mapping. The prospects of using joint social mapping for diagnostics and stimulation of public participation in local socioterritorial communities, its strategy, and procedure are analyzed. It has been shown that the expert position of residents in developing a map makes it possible not only to obtain empirical data on the nature of territorial identity, territorial interests, potential tensions and conflicts, and the practices of public participation in a socioterritorial context, but also to form “areas of agreement”. It also involves residents in local and regional development. In turn, maps, by designing the common symbolic space and making possible a “full description,” may constitute public and objectified images of the territory. Referring to experience of use in a study of two urban settlements in Novosibirsk oblast, the authors note the prospects of its application at the initial stage of research and design in local socioterritorial communities. The potential and nature of public participation in this case is analyzed via the participation of citizens in the mapping procedure and its results, as well as the deciphering and interpretation of meanings inherent in the maps. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Regional Research of Russia Springer Journals

Social mapping as a tool for public participation

Regional Research of Russia , Volume 5 (1) – Mar 15, 2015

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Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © 2015 by Pleiades Publishing, Ltd.
Subject
Economics / Management Science; Regional/Spatial Science
ISSN
2079-9705
eISSN
2079-9713
DOI
10.1134/S2079970515010116
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Abstract

Strengthening of the project aspects of social management makes it important to search for mechanisms to involve the population in local and regional development with a view to the peculiarities of the inhabitants’ perception of the territory and community, formal and informal traditions, and the practices of assistance and participation. The article considers spatial research methods rarely used in the Russian practice-joint social mapping. The prospects of using joint social mapping for diagnostics and stimulation of public participation in local socioterritorial communities, its strategy, and procedure are analyzed. It has been shown that the expert position of residents in developing a map makes it possible not only to obtain empirical data on the nature of territorial identity, territorial interests, potential tensions and conflicts, and the practices of public participation in a socioterritorial context, but also to form “areas of agreement”. It also involves residents in local and regional development. In turn, maps, by designing the common symbolic space and making possible a “full description,” may constitute public and objectified images of the territory. Referring to experience of use in a study of two urban settlements in Novosibirsk oblast, the authors note the prospects of its application at the initial stage of research and design in local socioterritorial communities. The potential and nature of public participation in this case is analyzed via the participation of citizens in the mapping procedure and its results, as well as the deciphering and interpretation of meanings inherent in the maps.

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Regional Research of RussiaSpringer Journals

Published: Mar 15, 2015

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