Cooking with Controversies: How Geographers Might Use Controversy Mapping as a Research Tool.

The purpose of this article is twofold. The first is to suggest that techniques for mapping public disagreements over claims to knowledge, or controversies, can act as assistive devices for researchers in geography to move from research topics to research questions. A second purpose is to offer a re...

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Publicado en:Professional Geographer Vol. 71; no. 3; pp. 437 - 449
Autores principales: Lepawsky, Josh, Davis, John-Michael, Akese, Grace, Persaud, Donny
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Aug2019
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Sumario:The purpose of this article is twofold. The first is to suggest that techniques for mapping public disagreements over claims to knowledge, or controversies, can act as assistive devices for researchers in geography to move from research topics to research questions. A second purpose is to offer a recipe or "how-to" guide of specific approaches and free scholarly software that researchers without specialized coding skills can use to achieve their own controversy mapping goals. We use a case of creating a controversy map covering the issue of transboundary movements of electronic waste (e-waste) to illustrate how these approaches and software can be associated together so that other researchers may put them to use for their own controversy mapping purposes.