Session G.
Territorial Sciences in the Global South(s): Knowledge, Ignorance, Dialogue
Co-chairs: Silvina Cecilia CARRIZO (Conicet, Argentina), Christian GIRAULT (CREDA / CNRS), Camilo PEREIRA CARNEIRO (UFG – Labeter / UFRGS, Brazil), Laëtitia PERRIER-BRUSLÉ (Loterr / Université de Lorraine), Aldomar RÜCKERT (Labeter / UFRGS, Brazil), Roberto UEBEL (ESPM – Labeter / UFRGS, Brazil) & Sébastien VELUT (IHEAL)
Geography as a discipline has frequently been used to construct national identities, and has been influenced by geopolitical visions (Messias da Costa & Théry, 2012; Perrrier Bruslé, 2013; Benwell & Dodds, 2011; Bennafla, 2022; Velut, 2022). Moreover, territory has become a strategic concept for social movements, which are innovating to create and disseminate alternative forms of knowledge. These two dimensions are particularly present in the Global South, where issues of identity, state-building and local resistance are all in play. Geographic information and its attendant technologies, which have become more readily available (Joliveau et al., 2013), are being mobilised by civil society and local populations alike (Hirt & Lerch, 2013) to create site-specific knowledge that challenges dominant narratives. They are both opening up new arenas for debate as well as offering opportunities for manipulation and new ways of cultivating ignorance (Godrie & Dos Santos, 2017). What can be done to facilitate the exchange of territorial knowledge with a view to strengthening democracy? What can be done to facilitate the exchange of specific forms of territorial knowledge with a view to strengthening democracy?
This session will address these questions under the following headings:
- The question of geographical and cartographic literacy (Frau-Meigs, 2019).
- The various means used to disseminate knowledge about territories and their effects on public debates,
- The production of ignorance and spaces of dialogue.
- Varying scales of geographical knowledge.
- The relationship between the various forms of knowledge emerging from specific territories and the relationships between territories.
Selected Bibliographical References
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