Affiliate Positions
- Affiliate Assistant Professor, UW Information School
- Affiliate Instructor, UW Jackson School of International Studies
Specializations
- Knowledge Politics and Misinformation
- Indigenous Knowledge and Digital Colonialism
- ICT and Development
Research Areas
Biography
Dr. Jason Young is a Senior Research Scientist with the Technology & Social Change Group. He is a critical human geographer who uses innovative combinations of computational analysis, participatory engagement, and traditional qualitative methodologies to questions about the cultural and epistemological limits of information and communication technologies (ICTs). A majority this work has examined what impacts the use of digital technologies has on Indigenous knowledge systems, with a primary interest in how digital forms of knowledge politics open space for new forms of interepistemological dialogue or extend colonial knowledge hierarchies. This interdisciplinary work draws on a wide body of work, including digital geographies, Indigenous studies, postcolonial theory, ICT for development, science and technology studies (STS), and more. Much of this work has occurred in the Peruvian Amazon and the Canadian Arctic. More recent research has expanded these research interests. Projects under development include studies of the role of public libraries in development across sub-Saharan Africa; the impact of community-owned digital networks on rural, Indigenous communities in Alaska and Peru; and the role of informal education in combatting misinformation in rural communities. Jason received his PhD from the UW Department of Geography in 2017.
Education
- Ph D, Geography, University of Washington, 2017
- MA, Geography, University of Washington, 2012
- BA, Geography, Miami University (Ohio), 2009
Publications and Contributions
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Journal Article, Academic JournalRural digital geographies and new landscapes of social resilience (2019)Journal of Rural Studies
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Journal Article, Academic JournalThe new knowledge politics of digital colonialism (2019)Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space
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Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-NewKnowledge Politics (2018)Digital Geographies
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Book, Reprint in TranslationUkiuqta'qtumi-Hivuniptingun – One Arctic, One Future (2018)One Arctic: The Arctic Council and Circumpolar Governance
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Journal Article, Academic JournalCanadian Inuit, digital qanuqtuurunnarniq, and emerging geographic imaginations (2017)Geoforum, Volume 86, Page 53-62
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Journal Article, Academic JournalParticipatory Uses of Geospatial Technologies to Leverage Multiple Knowledge Systems within Development Contexts (2017)World Development, Volume 93, Page 389-401
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Journal Article, Academic JournalPolar Bear Management in a Digital Arctic: Inuit Perspectives Across the Web (2016)The Canadian Geographer, Volume 60, Issue 4, Page 574-91
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Journal Article, Academic JournalSubaltern empowerment in the Geoweb: Tensions between publicity and privacy (2014)Antipode, Volume 46, Issue 2, Page 574-91
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Journal Article, Professional JournalThe Spatial Politics of Affect and Emotion in Participatory GIS (2013)Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Volume 103, Issue 4
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Journal Article, Academic JournalThe use of participatory mapping in ethnobiological research, biocultural conservation, and community empowerment: a case study from the Peruvian Amazon (2012)Journal of Ethnobiology, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 6-29
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Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-NewThe Maijuna Participatory Mapping Project: Mapping the Past and the Present for the Future (2010)Peru: Maijuna
Presentations
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Advancing Library Visibility in Africa
(2019)
3rd African Library & Information Associations & Institutions (AfLIA) Conference & 5th African Library Summit - Nairobi
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Knowledge Politics Across Digital Divides: Environmental Change, Indigeneity, and Technology Use in the Arctic
Development Studies Association 2018 Conference - Manchester, UK