AAG's 100th Annual Meeting,
March 14-19, 2004, Philadelphia

QUALITATIVE RESEARCH AND GIS

CALL FOR PAPERS

Organizers: LaDona Knigge (SUNY-Buffalo)

Mei-Po Kwan (Ohio State University)

We are organizing a session on Qualitative Research and GIS. The session focuses on the integration of qualitative research with GIS through the presentation of case studies of current
applications such as the construction of cartographic narratives, historical life maps, and algorithm and model building, as well as addressing the broader epistemological, theoretical, ethical and ontological questions associated with combining qualitative research and GIS.

Paper topics may include:

* Qualitative research and public participation GIS research

* Qualitative inquiry, geographic visualization, exploratory data analysis

* Constraints and progress in qualitative research and algorithm and model building, and data representation

* Epistemological discussions of limitations, adequacy, advantages and disadvantages of GIS and the representation of qualitative knowledge

* Intersections or disjunctions between qualitative and GIScience epistemologies and theoretical underpinnings

* Qualitative and GIS software package integration

* Impact of qualitative research and methods on GIS decision-making and analysis

* GIS and ethnographic research: incorporating qualitative data into geographic databases

* GIS and the construction of cartographic narratives, historical life maps, spatial stories

We encourage submissions that address recent critiques of GIScience as well as those demonstrating practical examples of integrating qualitative methods with GIS research and the use of GIScience in qualitative research.

Please submit your abstract of no more that 250 words, according to AAG specifications to LaDona Knigge (lknigge@acsu.buffalo.edu )and Mei-Po Kwan (kwan.8@osu.edu), as well as to AAG's online submission system at: www.aag.org/AnnualMeetings/Intro.html.

Once you have submitted your abstract, you will be given a Participant ID number. Please also send us the following information before October 5, 2003.

- Your Name

- Affiliation and contact information

- Title of Paper

- AAG Participant ID Number

- Your technology requirements