Social Cartography Research Articles

CARTOGRAFIA SOCIAL DA INJUSTIÇA AMBIENTAL NA CHAPADA DO APODI, CEARÁ

Chapada do Apodi, in the state of Ceará, is an expansion area for cotton agribusiness, producing environmental injustice against peasant communities. The study reveals the potential of social maps created through participatory mapping to expose environmental injustice caused by agribusiness. The research aims to demonstrate the environmental injustice triggered by the territorialization of agribusiness in the region through social cartography. A qualitative approach, participatory research, and social cartography are the core procedures for the investigation. The results show that it was possible to demonstrate increased deforestation, areas with a "smell of poison," the incorporation of former goat breeding areas, the deactivation of apiaries and bee deaths, the destruction of social technologies, and the possible contamination of storage tanks for household water. Furthermore, it is evident that environmental injustice can be revealed through participatory mapping processes based on social cartography. Keywords: Social cartography; Environmental injustice; Agribusiness; Chapada do Apodi.

Collaborative climate labs: A youth-led methodology for co-creating community responses to climate change

This article presents the Collaborative Climate Laboratories (CiCli-Labs), a participatory research methodology that bridges citizenship, science and politics. This methodology is grounded on young people’s knowledge and experience about their communities and seeks to develop a strategy for co-designing climate solutions with local stakeholders. Carried out in schools, the CiCli-Labs engage scientists, activists, business owners, and politicians in discussing climate problems identified by young people. By bringing together different positionalities that emerge from people’s diverse social roles, the CiCli-Labs aim to foster conditions for democratic citizenship and climate justice, embracing the necessarily conflicting yet binding dimensions of politics that can produce transformative and reciprocal learning. Additionally, it responds to the growing demand within educational research for community-based approaches capable of tackling the shortcomings in promoting youth agentic power in participatory designs, often marked by one-off events and youth-washing practices. The CiCli-Labs’ methodology builds on community profiling, through which students identify climate-related issues that work as catalysts for broader dialogues with local actors, challenging traditional adult-centric power dynamics. The methodology evolves through a sequential design based on the adaptation of participatory tools and methods: i) Climate Problem Tree; ii) Climate Social Cartography; iii) Pros-and-Cons Circuit; iv) Solutions Funnel; v) Climate Speed Dating; vi) Hands on Earth and Eyes on Clouds. The methodology was implemented in eight schools in northern Portugal, involving more than 300 students (grades 8 to 12). We discuss the rationale and practicality of the CiCli-Labs while mobilising empirical illustrations of the methodological process and participants’ perceptions about it, thereby contributing to furthering the problematisation of democratic research practices with young people.

Intervención Multicomponente de Enfermería para Promover el Hábito del Lavado de Manos en Escolares.

Diarrheal diseases and respiratory infections represent the main reasons for school absenteeism, which if complicated, will be part of the mortality statistics in children under five years of age. In this sense, it is important to focus on hand washing and multicomponent interventions with theoretical references for behavioral changes to promote sustained and long-term behavior, washing hands with soap and water has been shown to be a life-saving hygiene habit. The Nursing professional, through the Nursing Care Process (PAE), has the necessary skills to design, implement and evaluate multicomponent interventions. Objective: implement a PAE aimed at schoolchildren to promote the habit of handwashing, through a multicomponent intervention and the theory of disruptive behavior. Methodology: community case study with PAE, implemented in a public and rural primary school in Yucatán, Mexico. For the assessment, brainstorming techniques, non-participant observation and social cartography were used. For the diagnostic process, results and interventions, the NANDA 2021-2023 taxonomy, NOC Results Classification and NIC Intervention Classification was used. Results: we worked with a diagnosis, a result and three interventions on health education, community environmental management and behavior modification. Conclusions: through the PAE and the multicomponent intervention, it was possible for the school population to generate a more active and committed practice with handwashing.

Using social cartographies for the calibration of two-dimensional hydraulic flood models

Using social cartographies for the calibration of two-dimensional hydraulic flood models

Who’s indoctrinating whom?: searching for anti-racist ideology in educational policy since 2020

ABSTRACT Amid debates about CRT in education, this paper critically analyses laws that have reportedly sought to expand ‘education on racism, bias, the contributions of specific racial or ethnic groups to U.S. history, or related topics’ with the hypothesis that there would be little evidence of anti-racist ideology in policies pertaining to curriculum. The research design thus leans on King and Chandler’s (2016) distinction between non-racist and antiracist stances, as well as Andreotti et al’.s (2015) social cartography that maps out ‘soft-reform’ and ‘radical reform’ spaces, to achieve a latent content analysis of 14 pieces of legislation across 13 states since 2020 to identify and analyse the ideological characteristics of these pieces of legislation. Only four of the 14 documents from four different states contain a significant anti-racist ideological leaning; the others express a liberal multicultural ideological position that celebrates difference and recognizes contributions, but does not examine systemic racism. Thus, among states that are legislating more ethnic studies, the vast majority do not legislate anti-racist positions. This paper concludes that there is little evidence of anti-racist ideas being legislated into primary and secondary education in the United States, and that most curricular reforms toe a non-critical ideological line.

Social extermination in the El Paraíso neighborhood. A structural constructivist analysis in the period 2010-2021

The article explores the results of the project "Social Extermination in the El Paraíso neighborhood: 2010 - 2021", carried out by the seedbed Esperanza en Marcha of the Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios - UNIMINUTO, Bogotá headquarters. The research focused on reflecting on the social representations of young people in the Paraíso neighborhood about the practices of social extermination that have occurred during the last ten years, based on the analysis of the categories, using the approaches of Pierre Bourdieu's structural constructivism and a qualitative methodology of narrative cut, where information gathering techniques related to semi-structured interviews, focus groups, and social cartographies were used. The research revealed the structural components of social extermination, recognizing that it originates from dominance over the youth of the neighborhood through the establishment of practices and thoughts that seek to annihilate what is different, what does not fit into the capitalist, patriarchal, and colonial system, Recognizing that this generates some affectations in the construction of identity of the young people due to the stigmatization of their place of residence and the violation of their human rights, the above is also reflected in the absence of governmental accompaniment, where finally it is the scenarios of youth resistance that make visible the situations and demand protection from community actions.

Estrategias de afrontamiento al estrés en docentes:

The main objective is to analyze the strategies for coping with stress in teachers at the San Francisco de Asís Parish School (Bello, Antioquia). The research approach is qualitative, and the method is phenomenological, since it allows us to identify and analyze the subjective and dynamic realities of the context, based on the conscious experiences of the actors addressed. The techniques used for information collection and analysis were social cartography, situation murals and in-depth interviews. From this analysis, categories such as work stress, self-sabotage, emotional self-management and absence of psychosocial support emerge. The findings obtained present a humanized dimension of the teaching experience and the daily ways they find to face the stress derived from their daily functions and challenges within the educational system.

Use of Social Cartography for Analysis of Social-Environmental Perception: a Case Study in the Paraíba do Sul Watershed – São Paulo Stretch

A Cartografia Social envolve a inclusão das comunidades no processo de desenvolvimento dos mapas e possibilita estabelecer uma metodologia participativa importante para análises quali-quantitativas de percepção socioambiental, contribuindo para a construção do conhecimento coletivo e gestão territorial. O objetivo do artigo é apresentar o uso da Cartografia Social como ferramenta para a análise da percepção socioambiental na bacia do rio Paraíba do Sul, trecho paulista. A análise foi realizada por meio da Cartografia Social, a partir do levantamento de potencialidades e problemas socioambientais e sua comparação com dados de fontes secundárias. Como potencialidades destacaram-se a vegetação nativa, unidades de conservação e atributos turísticos e em relação aos problemas socioambientais, a monocultura do eucalipto, saneamento básico precário, ocupação urbana e extração de areia. Os resultados reforçam o potencial da Cartografia Social em dar visibilidade ao conhecimento local, e em contribuir na construção do conhecimento coletivo e no diagnóstico territorial participativo.

How are we to interpret this then? Social cartography, transdiscipline and epistemological disorder working with three social health organizations to the south of Buenos Aires

How are we to interpret this then? Social cartography, transdiscipline and epistemological disorder working with three social health organizations to the south of Buenos Aires

Historical Territorialization of Mining Companies in The State of Bahia

Purpose: This article proposes to develop a territorial, historical, dynamic, open and plural analytical framework, referring to mining companies operating in the State of Bahia. Theoretical Framework: Through socioeconomic, ecological and historical analyses, we clarify multiple relationships between past and contemporary facts, based on the theoretical and conceptual perspectives of the cartographic exercise of New Social Cartography, developed by professor Alfredo Wagner. Method: The methodological instrument is New Social Cartography, through which we seek to highlight companies, agents of mineral exploration, highlighting phenomena inherent to their activities. Using methods that involve the leading roles of communities in the construction of knowledge. Results and conclusions: We observed that in Bahia, as, generally speaking, in Brazil, sophisticated models of mining colonization were established, with embryonic approvals from the Kandir Law, one of the legal provisions that must be urgently questioned and repudiated, in the name of freedom and lives. Research implications: Exposure and elucidation of global policies involving mining processes, presenting a worrying dynamism, with major ruptures and structural transformations (economic, political, cultural and mental). Originality/value: we contrast political categories and reified legal norms, demystifying them, presenting immeasurable losses inherited by human populations, their sociocultural frameworks, living organisms and the abiotic environments of ecosystems.

Participatory research processes for the production of plant material in food security context

The production of quality seed constitutes one of the main challenges for food security and sovereignty of both urban and rural populations, requiring processes that recognize not only the potential of the territories but also the diversity associated withpeasant communities and their forms of production. , so as to reduce the gaps resulting from the use of seeds of low or no physical, genetic, physiological and sanitary quality that reduce the impact on the yields of banana, pineapple and cassava crops. To this end, a participatory research process was carried out to meet the demand for projects that improve the food and nutritional security of the population of the department of Casanare -Colombia. As a result, the methodology was implemented based on meetings with producers of productive systems for the construction of knowledge from social cartography, the preparation of economic calendars and mappings of actors and needs. This reading of the environments allowed the development of activities for the participatory selection of planting materials, processes of intensive multiplication of materials, as well as the transformation and production of banana, pineapple and cassava derivatives. The conclusions have to do with the importance of considering the producer as an active participant in the research processes in the construction of knowledge that contributes to the generation and appropriation of solutions based on science, technology and innovation in favor of food security and with this the reduction of poverty. In the near future, it is planned to carry out a training process for trainers with allied universities to leave installed capacities and to promote access and availability of quality seed.

Social Cartographies in Contexts of Violence(s): (Re)mapping Borders and Limits in the Peripheral Barrios of Guayaquil, Ecuador

The establishment and subsequent configuration of peripheral barrios in Latin America are phenomena intrinsic to the history of these nations. Despite the many years that have passed since the first informal settlements, we are far from being able to comprehend the complex realities of their inhabitants. Against this background and by producing two social cartographies, the purpose of this article is to examine the socio-spatial production of peripheral barrios in Guayaquil (Ecuador), particularly Bastión Popular and Nigeria. Drawing on the voices of the inhabitants, these cartographies captured shared experiences and trajectories, revealing the boundaries and bordering processes that (re)produce and condition their social practices in everyday neighborhood space. Social cartographies served as a flexible and suitable methodological tool for symbolizing abstract and concrete elements in the neighborhood territory, establishing connections between the meanings attributed to each neighborhood and the contextual features of the city. The originality of this research and article lies in its use of this methodological tool for understanding these realities in Guayaquil.

Access to health and social protection policies by homeless people during the COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed-methods case study on tailored inter-sector care during a health emergency.

The article analyzed homeless people's (HP) access to health and social protection policies and tailored inter-sector care, including emergency measures, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Belo Horizonte (BH), capital of Minas Gerais state, Brazil. It intended to provide data on HP and evaluate existing public policies focused on vulnerable populations during this health emergency. The study adopted a mixed-methods design with triangulation of quantitative and qualitative data. Social cartography showed that in the early months of the pandemic, the health administration had difficulty reordering the health system, which experienced constant updates in the protocols but was nevertheless consolidated over the months. The evidence collected in the study showed that important emergency interventions in the municipality of BH involved activities that facilitated access by HP to the supply of services. The existence of national guidelines for inter-sector care for HP cannot be ruled out as a positive influence, although the municipalities are responsible for their implementation. Significantly, a health emergency was necessary to intensify the relationship between health and social protection services. Roving services were among those with the greatest positive evidence, with the least need for infrastructure to be replicated at the local level. In addition, the temporary supply of various inter-sector services, simultaneously with the provision of day shelters by organized civil society, was considered a key factor for expanding and intensifying networks of care for HP during the emergency phase. A plan exists to continue and expand this model in the future. The study concluded that understanding the inter-sector variables that impact HP contributes to better targeting of investments in interventions that work at the root causes of these issues or that increase the effectiveness of health and social protection systems.

The algorithm for articulating meanings of entrepreneurship as a social concept

The development of social sciences based on positivism led to a multiplicity of social concepts’ definitions. The study aims to operationalize a constructionist approach to the formation of concepts’ meanings in specific place and time. The study used metadata of articles on entrepreneurship from OpenAlex with the “entrepreneurship as” search syntagm. The resulting sets of authors’ operational metaphors and analogies were analyzed semantically and contextually; social cartography was used to study the distribution of meanings within discourse. The results of the study are: (1) identification and schematic modeling of social concept`s sense as an outcome of discourse consolidation process through basic metaphor detection; (2) the notion explication and schematic modeling of the concept`s meaning as an interplay of complementary tensions within discourse; (3) the construction of a generalized model of articulation and dispersion of the social concept’s meanings based on the interaction of discourse’s metaphors and its tenseness.

Prioritizing Public Policy Implementation for Rural Development in a Developing Country via Multicriteria Classification

Despite the growing global interest in promoting rural development as a strategy to guarantee food security, in developing countries there are large gaps to achieve a sustainable countryside, mainly in rural areas. This research work delves into a methodological approach definition to establish the baseline for the public policy implementation and prioritize the intervention needs in the different items considered in an integral rural development public policy. The proposed methodology combines a qualitative characterization of needs and goals, a social cartography, a quantitative characterization of indicators and the use of multicriteria classification for prioritizing development policies. Eight localities with sixteen small rural settlements are taken as a research unit, to apply the proposed methodology and determine the implementation level of a public policy. The results show that a set of priority policies that both meet the authorities’ objectives and the population’s needs can be defined. Moreover, a vector of priority is proposed to define the weakest items, as a guide to local government administrations to focus efforts on interventions to achieve greater impacts on the rural community development under study. Finally, via a double field validity assessment, those strategic lines are hierarchized and analyzed regarding their potential relationships, as a social system.

Analysis of associative entrepreneurship as a territorial strategy in the municipality of Mesetas, Meta

This document reflects partial results of the characterization phase of the research project, where approaches were made with the community to identify the territory, using temporality maps within the participatory methodology called: social cartography. In this identification process, the association to achieve productive development and rural competitiveness in Mesetas was determined as a territorial enterprise, which in recent years, after the Peace Accords, have been constituted in a large number under the collective and collaborative principle, to the channeling of resources offered by governmental and international cooperation entities; improve the quality of life of producers; access training programs; implement farmers markets; incentivize fair prices, thus eliminating intermediaries; develop business skills; improve the marketing, distribution and even raw material transformation system to achieve optimal negotiation conditions, among other findings

Mapping the Indigenous Postcolonial Possibilities of Teacher Preparation

In this article, a team of teacher educators collectively think through the many possibilities of how concepts such as decolonization, abolition, and fugitivity intersect with and are taken up by teacher education programs. To do so, we undertook a critical interpretive synthesis of scholarly literature spanning 2000 to 2020 to locate, examine, and organize existing examples of teacher education programs that work to transgress hegemonic colonial models of education. We revisit de Oliveira Andreotti et al.’s social cartography as a framework for comparing the theoretical foundations and social implications of each teacher education program.

Igniting Pathways for Land-Based Healing: Possibilities for Institutional Accountability

U.S. based post-secondary educational institutions usually have violent origin stories that include land theft, genocide, and the participation in slavery. Schools of social work are no exception. In recent years, colleges and universities, including schools of social work, have started to confront their histories of and participation in racial-settler colonialism. The severance of land as kinship, and land theft, have been a significant part of the harms of racial-settler colonialism. Colleges and universities have benefited from land theft, primarily through land-grants. Still, institutional accountability has been minimal, including limited acknowledgment of harm and modest changes in curriculum and staff. This paper expands the terrain of institutional accountability in social work higher education to consider land-based healing initiatives as a critical remedy for the harms of racial settler colonialism. This paper provides a historical review and decolonial analysis of the connection between social work higher education and land-grant institutions. Building on social cartography literature, a mapping framework for decolonizing higher education is examined in relation to questions of institutional accountability by land-grant universities. This framework is offered in conjunction with contemporary examples of struggles for institutional accountability in and outside of higher education. The paper concludes with future recommendations for research related to institutional accountability and the implications of land-based healing as an approach.

Child-led resistance in the streets of the global south: Decolonial perspectives of violence against children outside of family care

BackgroundViolence against children (VAC) remains an urgent global dilemma and researchers and policymakers alike continue to work tirelessly to devise strategies aiming to end VAC. However, the perspectives and expertise of children themselves remain underrepresented in the drafting and implementation of these strategies against VAC. This paper draws attention to the marginalization of children living outside of family care and centers their perspective. ObjectiveThis study aimed to characterize the forms of violence experienced by children living outside the family setting in Uganda, from the perspective of children themselves.The paper seeks to position the voicing of this perspective as a form of resistance against VAC from a decolonial perspective.Participants and Setting: The participatory research process included a total of 94 participants in various urban study sites in Kampala, Uganda. MethodsThe research team completed this qualitative study within a youth-driven participatory action research (YPAR) framework. Data collection techniques included interviews, focus groups, participatory visual methods and social cartography. ResultsChildren living outside of family care experience grave forms of emotional, physical and sexual violence. Child participants present survival strategies that can inform future research and policies on violence prevention practice. ConclusionsThe illustration of explicit violence outlined in this study represents a form of resistance children take against their perpetrators. The participatory youth researcher team urges future research and policy addressing VAC in Uganda to center these perspectives and expertise of children and adolescents in both programmatic and research initiatives aiming to end violence against children.

Prioritizing Food Products, Environmental Goods and Services from Paramo and Forest Ecosystems in the Chimborazo Province

The study of the prioration of food products, goods and environmental services of the páramo and forest ecosystems of the province of Chimborazo focuses on the identification and valuation of the environmental services provided by the ecosystems of páramo and forest of the province of Chimborazo, in Ecuador.The study was conducted through an expert survey, literature review, social cartography and weighting methodologies. The results indicate that the most important ecosystem services are the provision of livestock and crop goods, water regulation, water for consumption, while the most valued environmental services are water regulation, carbon sequestration and biodiversity conservation.Likewise, it was identified that the main problem in the province is the loss of ecosystems, especially moors and natural forests, due to anthropic activities and the misuse of resources such as water and soil. In addition, contamination by human waste to watersheds and rivers is recurrent in all cantons.Based on these results, there is a need to promote the conservation and restoration of páramo and forest ecosystems in the province, as well as to promote sustainable practices in agricultural and livestock production. It also suggests the implementation of mechanisms for economic valuation of environmental services to encourage their conservation and the development of sustainable economic activities.