TY - JOUR
T1 - Digital humanitarians for the Sustainable Development Goals
T2 - YouthMappers as a hybrid movement
AU - Solís, Patricia
AU - Rajagopalan, Sushil
AU - Villa, Lily
AU - Mohiuddin, Maliha Binte
AU - Boateng, Ebenezer
AU - Wavamunno Nakacwa, Stellamaris
AU - Peña Valencia, María Fernanda
N1 - Funding Information:
The United States Agency for International Development generously supports the YouthMappers program through a grant from the USAID GeoCenter under Cooperative Agreement 7200AA18CA00015 and previously under Award #AID-OAA-G-15-00007. Views expressed in this article do not necessarily re?ect the policies and viewpoints of the agency or its employees. YouthMappers Founding universities are Texas Tech University, George Washington University, and West Virginia University and the fiscal and administrative home is at Arizona State University. We thank our colleagues Marcela Zeballos, Managing Director of YouthMappers, CoPIs Dr. Nuala Cowan, Dr. Brent McCusker, and the core team Dr. Jamison Conley, Dr. Ryan Engstrom, Dr. Marie Price, Dr. Jennings Anderson, Carrie Stokes, Michael Crino, Rory Nealon, Chad Blevins from USAID as well as Dr. Elizabeth Wentz at the Knowledge Exchange for Resilience. We are grateful to our faculty mentors serving the chapters in each institution as well as the many members and staff of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap team for the technical platforms and networks that enable student and academic participation. Appreciation to the survey respondents and of course, none of this would be possible without the time, enthusiasm, and creativity of all of the students of the YouthMappers network who inspire us.
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PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Emerging youth movements to promote issues reflected in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are celebrated as critical for the future attainment of societal aims. We explore the possibility for institutions of higher education to serve as an intentional third space to engender the creation and mobilization of hybrid movements that intentionally engage youth internationally. This case study interrogates the YouthMappers digital humanitarian mapping model of student-led, faculty-mentored, globally-networked chapters through a global survey of 205 participating students from 32 countries. Results indicate the extent to which youth reflect on skill-development versus global citizenship, and how they understand the meanings of their actions for SDGs, locally and globally. Detected differences by gender, world region, and duration of participation are interpreted and validated with additional qualitative data. We conclude with observations about how universities can open enabling spaces for youth action on SDGs.
AB - Emerging youth movements to promote issues reflected in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are celebrated as critical for the future attainment of societal aims. We explore the possibility for institutions of higher education to serve as an intentional third space to engender the creation and mobilization of hybrid movements that intentionally engage youth internationally. This case study interrogates the YouthMappers digital humanitarian mapping model of student-led, faculty-mentored, globally-networked chapters through a global survey of 205 participating students from 32 countries. Results indicate the extent to which youth reflect on skill-development versus global citizenship, and how they understand the meanings of their actions for SDGs, locally and globally. Detected differences by gender, world region, and duration of participation are interpreted and validated with additional qualitative data. We conclude with observations about how universities can open enabling spaces for youth action on SDGs.
KW - Humanitarian mapping
KW - SDGs
KW - hybridity
KW - movements
KW - youth
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U2 - 10.1080/03098265.2020.1849067
DO - 10.1080/03098265.2020.1849067
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85096372524
SN - 0309-8265
VL - 46
SP - 80
EP - 100
JO - Journal of Geography in Higher Education
JF - Journal of Geography in Higher Education
IS - 1
ER -