TY - JOUR
T1 - Media Frames and Shifting Places of Environmental (In)Justice
T2 - A Qualitative Historical Geographic Information System Method
AU - Cutts, Bethany B.
AU - Fang, Danqi
AU - Hornik, Kaitlyn
AU - London, Jonathan K.
AU - Schwarz, Kirsten
AU - Cadenasso, Mary L.
N1 - Funding Information:
We gratefully acknowledge support from the University of California, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources competitive grants program (No. 11-958). Work by Danqi Fang and Kaitlyn Hornik was supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture, under award number ILLU-875-919.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.
Copyright:
Copyright 2016 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Newspapers are underused as a source of spatial data in environmental justice research. Recent advances in qualitative historical geographic information systems (QHGIS) provide an opportunity for deeper investigation into how newspapers reflect changing meanings of place in relation to environmental burden and environmental benefit. This article introduces a protocol to identify and map locations associated with different media frames. We apply QHGIS to urban gardening and soil lead issues reported in Sacramento, California. We find that the QHGIS method enhances conventional approaches to case study archival research and media analysis because it reveals: (a) the distribution of public narratives of environmental concern across the city, (b) the politics embedded in location names, (c) place name-changes that might otherwise lead to inaccurate GIS analysis, and (d) how locations can be used as a framing device to communicate environmental concerns. The method can enhance research in which the history and geography of enduring, emerging, and changing public understandings of place are important to contemporary environmental (in)justice debates.
AB - Newspapers are underused as a source of spatial data in environmental justice research. Recent advances in qualitative historical geographic information systems (QHGIS) provide an opportunity for deeper investigation into how newspapers reflect changing meanings of place in relation to environmental burden and environmental benefit. This article introduces a protocol to identify and map locations associated with different media frames. We apply QHGIS to urban gardening and soil lead issues reported in Sacramento, California. We find that the QHGIS method enhances conventional approaches to case study archival research and media analysis because it reveals: (a) the distribution of public narratives of environmental concern across the city, (b) the politics embedded in location names, (c) place name-changes that might otherwise lead to inaccurate GIS analysis, and (d) how locations can be used as a framing device to communicate environmental concerns. The method can enhance research in which the history and geography of enduring, emerging, and changing public understandings of place are important to contemporary environmental (in)justice debates.
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U2 - 10.1089/env.2015.0027
DO - 10.1089/env.2015.0027
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84980329533
SN - 1939-4071
VL - 9
SP - 23
EP - 28
JO - Environmental Justice
JF - Environmental Justice
IS - 1
ER -