Models of Citizenship: A Comparative Analysis of Crowdsourced and Local Mapping Projects

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dc.contributor.advisorBurns, Ryan
dc.contributor.authorAmbrose, Angela Diane
dc.contributor.committeememberFarías, Mónica
dc.contributor.committeememberKraay, Hendrik
dc.date2021-11
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-24T20:05:24Z
dc.date.available2021-09-24T20:05:24Z
dc.date.issued2021-09-23
dc.description.abstractCitizenship is contested, re-negotiated, and evaluated in shifting sociopolitical and economic contexts: it is scalar, spatialized, embedded with power relations and exclusionary at its foundations. Digital technologies shift conceptualizations of citizenship in humanitarian, legal, social and urban development work contexts. Digital technologies in these contexts produce emergent, digitized power asymmetries between mappers and the communities they map, including places and ideas that are translated into mapped data. These power asymmetries are characterized by dominant forms of knowledge producing digital categories through which mapped individuals become perceived, reinforcing stigmatized views of the Other. This thesis details a cross-organizational case study undertaken in Buenos Aires, Argentina, which explored how citizenship is modulated by, and embedded within, digital mapping practices and the organizational approaches that underlie them. In this research I engage with ways that citizenship is both conceptualized and performed in digital mapping projects. I primarily argue that digital citizenship, a performative tool, is a key way that socially excluded communities seek justice within digital mapping practices and that crowdsourced mapping volunteers in turn perform a digital citizenship that introduces complex power dynamics.en_US
dc.identifier.citationAmbrose, A. D. (2021). Models of Citizenship: A Comparative Analysis of Crowdsourced and Local Mapping Projects (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca.en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/39280
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/113963
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArtsen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen
dc.rightsUniversity of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.en_US
dc.subjectdigital geographiesen_US
dc.subjectcrowdsourcingen_US
dc.subjectcrowdsourced mappingen_US
dc.subjectcitizenshipen_US
dc.subjectcritical technology studiesen_US
dc.subjectLatin American studiesen_US
dc.subjectdigital technologiesen_US
dc.subjectinformal settlementsen_US
dc.subjecthumanitarian mappingen_US
dc.subject.classificationGeographyen_US
dc.subject.classificationPolitical Scienceen_US
dc.subject.classificationPsychology--Socialen_US
dc.titleModels of Citizenship: A Comparative Analysis of Crowdsourced and Local Mapping Projectsen_US
dc.typemaster thesisen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineGeographyen_US
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Calgaryen_US
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts (MA)en_US
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