Apartheid Representations in a Digital Landscape: GIS, Remote Sensing and Local Knowledge in Kiepersol, South Africa

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A GIS is currently being developed for the Kiepersol locality in the Eastern Transvaal which integrates conventional environmental and infrastructural data with nonconventional behavioral and cognitive information. Regional political ecology informs the GIS design in which socially differentiated knowledge sources are brought together. The GIS production process is undertaken with concern for the competing discourses associated with post-apartheid social transformation in South Africa and in full appreciation that geographic information systems are social constructions. The multiple realities of resource access and use represented within the Kiepersol GIS are intended to contribute to democratic decision-making for land and agrarian reform.

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