Going up the mountain: Methodological challenges in the use of geographic information systems in a participatory research project in Cuetzalan

Abstract

This article describes the process of making and executing a participative cartography project about Cuetzalan water committees, which had the purpose of generating dynamics of useful collective knowledge construction for concrete realities of social processes of that municipality. In this regard, we intend to narrate a process which exceeds theoretical and technical tools and generates social bounds to establish trustworthy relationships that allowed us to collect strategic and relevant information for the social processes that are carried out in in this case Cuetzalan. It is expected then that the circulation of the strategies to solve these difficulties and the description of the process itself, will allow to generate reflection places in Academy and research projects that involve social cartography, as a key element to produce knowledge.