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Reflections on using mobile GPS with young informal vendors in urban Tanzania
Author(s) -
Salvidge Nathan
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
area
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1475-4762
pISSN - 0004-0894
DOI - 10.1111/area.12782
Subject(s) - global positioning system , livelihood , tanzania , context (archaeology) , mobile device , mobilities , computer science , geography , business , sociology , environmental planning , world wide web , telecommunications , social science , archaeology , agriculture
This paper will explore how mobile‐based GPS methods can advance insights into young itinerant vendors' informal livelihood mobilities. It examines the practicalities of using a GPS‐based method in a Majority World context whilst also discussing the merits of combining this approach with mobile methods. The ethical issues of using GPS technology ‘on the move’, and the impact that my presence had whilst I accompanied participants, is also discussed.