The Research Group is pleased to make available a typescript of a recent book chapter on cultural mapping:
“Re-situating participatory cultural mapping as community-centered work,” by Nancy Duxbury (Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal) and W.F. Garrett-Petts (Thompson Rivers University, Canada).
Abstract:
Participatory cultural mapping is rooted in practices of community engagement and collaboration, working to make visible and co-produce knowledge that is of value for community identity formation, reflection, decision-making, and development. Meaningful collaboration requires fierce listening, sharing control, and sensitive attention to processes and perspectives.
In contemporary academe, aspirations to ‘co-create’ knowledge with communities are heightening and becoming more visible, but we also observe resistances to fully embrace the challenges and implications embodied in meaningful community-academe collaboration. These doubts and hesitations raise questions about the broader implications of democratizing knowledge through meaningful community-engaged processes.
In this context, this chapter will examine community-centered work through the lens of participatory cultural mapping, aiming to highlight characteristics of meaningful citizen participation processes, the need to recognize diversities of expertise, knowledge, and experience, and the changing role(s) of academe in collaborative knowledge-generating contexts.
LINK TO THE PDF: https://culturalmapping.trubox.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/2529/2025/05/Re_situating_participatory_cultural_mapp.pdf