This is not an atlas: a global collection of counter-cartographies
Bielefeld:
transcript; Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung
(2018), 352 pp., many maps
ISBN 978-3-8394-4519-8 (pdf); 978-3-8376-4519-4 (print)
CC BY
"This Is Not an Atlas gathers more than 40 counter-cartographies from all over the world. This collection shows how maps are created and transformed as a part of political struggle, for critical research or in art and education: from indigenous territories in the Amazon to the anti-eviction movement in San Francisco; from defending commons in Mexico to mapping refugee camps with balloons in Lebanon; from slums in Nairobi to squats in Berlin; from supporting communities in the Philippines to reporting sexual harassment in Cairo. This Is Not an Atlas seeks to inspire, to document the underrepresented, and to be a useful companion when becoming a counter-cartographer yourself." (Publisher)
Contents
INTRODUCTION
Editorial - This Is Not an Atlas / Severin Halder, Boris Michel, Berlin, 12
Counter-Cartographies - The Insurrection of Maps / André Mesquita, São Paulo, 26
COUNTER-CARTOGRAPHIES AS A TOOL FOR ACTION
Mapping the Anti-Eviction Struggle in the San Francisco Bay Area / Anti-Eviction Map, Erin McElroy, San Francisco, 38
A New Social Cartography: Defending Traditional Territories by Mapping in the Amazon / Projeto Nova Cartografia Social da Amazônia, Alfredo Wagner Berno de Almeida, Sheilla Borges Dourado, Carolina Bertolini, Manaus & São Luis, 46
A View from Above - Balloon Mapping Bourj Al Shamali [Palestine Refugee Camp, Lebanon] / Claudia Martinez Mansell, Mustapha Dakhloul, Firas Ismail, New York & Bourj Al Shamali, 54
Mapping Safe Passages: Real-Time Interventions at the Maritime Borders of Europe / Stephan Liebscher, Ina Fisher, Berlin, 60
Militarization of Rio de Janeiro's Favelas: Measuring Impacts on the Lives of Young Black Men and Women through Social Cartography / Fórum de Juventudes do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, 66
Political Action Maps: Finding your Way in Demonstrations and Protests / Kartographische Aktion, Germany, 72
This Land Is Your Land: Strategies for Making the Potential Commons Visible and Actionable. 596acres / Paula Z. Segal, Mara Kravitz, New York, 76
COUNTER-CARTOGRAPHIES TIE NETWORKS
X-Ray of Soy Agribusiness in the Pampa and Mega-Mining in the Andes / Iconoclasistas, Julia Risler, Pablo Ares, Buenos Aires, 86
Mapping Global Environmental Conflicts and Spaces of Resistance: Environmental Justice Atlas / Leah Temper, Barcelona, 92
Collaborative Cartography in Defense of the Commons / Geo Communes, Mexico, 98
Knitted Flood Wall / Martina O'Brien, Dublin, 102
COUNTER-CARTOGRAPHIES BUILD POLITICAL PRESSURE
Indigenous Cartography in Acre: Influencing Public Policy in Brazil / Comissão Pró-Índio do Acre, Renato Antonio Gavazzi, Rio Branco, 110
Making Cartographies of Ourselves / CRAC Valparaiso, Paulina E. Varas, José Llano Loyola, Valparaiso, 116
A Civic Mapping Project in an Indian Megacity: The Uses and Challenges of Spatial Data for Critical Research / Hyderabad Urban Lab - Harsha Devulapalli, Indivar Jonnalagadda, Hyderabad, 120
Mapping Sexual Harassment in Egypt / HarassMap, Cairo, 126
Untangling the Strategies of Capital - Towards a Critical Atlas of Ecuador / Colectivo de Geografía Crítica del Ecuador, Quito, 130
A Students' Map for a Students' Building: Working from within and beyond the Map / Geoide en Revolución, Buenos Aires, 136
COUNTER-CARTOGRAPHY IS EDUCATION
Counter-Mapping for Resistance and Solidarity in the Philippines: Between Art, Pedagogy and Community / Arnisson Andre C. Ortega, Ma. Simeona M. Martinez, Cian Dayrit, Kristian Karlo C. Saguin, Quezon City & Pasig City, 144
Mapping Inside (and Outside) the Classroom / Nicolás Frank, Fernanda García, Uruguay, 152
Protest Map, Cartoon and Propaganda: The Hidden Object Map Right to the City / Marc Amann, Markus Wende, Tübingen & Berlin, 158
HOW TO BECOME AN OCCASIONAL CARTOGRAPHER
Making Maps: A Visual Guide to Map Design with GPS / Denis Wood, John Krygier, Raleigh & Delaware, 165
Manual of Collective Mapping / Iconoclasistas - Julia Risler, Pablo Ares, Buenos Aires, 183
A Guideline for Solidary Mapping / Anna Hirschmann, Raphael Kiczka, Florian Ledermann, participants of the Solidary Mapping Workshop, Vienna, 205
COUNTER-CARTOGRAPHIES CREATE VISIBILITY
Counter-Mapping Militant Research / Counter Cartographies Collective - Liz Mason-Deese, Craig Dalton, Nathan Swanson, Tim Stallmann, Maribel Casas-Cortes, Sebastian Cobarrubias, North Carolina, 212
Mapping the Squatting Movement / Pappsatt-Kollektiv - Tobias Morawski, Berlin, 222
Emancipatory Mapmaking: Lessons from Kibera / Erica Hagen, Julian Stenmanns, Till Straube, Washington D.C. & Frankfurt, 228
Mapping Postkolonial: An Archive of Post/Colonial Traces, Layers and Spectres in Munich / mapping.postkolonial.net - Eva Bahl, Simon Goeke, Zara Pfeiffer, Peter Spillmann, Michael Vögeli, Philip Zölls, Munich, 234
Open-Source Aerial Imagery as a Critique Tool: The Extractive Geopolitics Project / Imaginando Buenas, Montevideo, 240
You Must Buy before You Can Fly: The Airport Malls / Philippe Rekacewicz, Eydehavn, 244
COUNTER-CARTOGRAPHIES SHOW SPATIAL SUBJECTIVITY
Visualizing the Counter-Narratives of Port Said: An Experiment of Mapping Social History / Nermin Elsherif, Cairo, 252
Counter-Cartographies of Exile / Sarah Mekdjian, Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary, Grenoble, 258
The Materiality Language of Cartography: Textile Maps of Morrocan Working-Class Neighbourhood in Marrakech / Elise Olmedo, Marseille, 264
Imaging Homelessness in a City of Care: Participatory Mapping with Homeless People / Oliver Moss, Adele Irving, NewcastleGateshead, 270
Tyneside's Skateworlds and Their Transformation: Production and Consumption of Participatory Post-Representational Cartographies / Jon Swords, Mike Jeffries, Newcastle, 276
Far Rock: AnneMarie's Mental Map of New York / Aaron Reiss, San Francisco, 282
COUNTER-CARTOGRAPHIES AS SELF-REFLECTION
Information Overload - From the Map to the Ground and Back / Elisa T. Bertuzzo, Günter Nest, Berlin, 286
C/Artographies of Positionality: Or How We Try to Situate Ourselves as a Working Group in Academia / Working Group Critical Geographies of Global Inequalities, Hamburg, 294
Deep Maps / Brett Bloom, Chicago, 300
COUNTER-CARTOGRAPHIES AS CRITIQUE
Uneven Digital Geographies … and Why They Matter / Mark Graham, Stefano De Sabbata, Ralph Straumann, Sanna Ojanpera, London, Leicester, Oxford, Zürich, 308
From Data Commons to (Critical) Cartography: Linking Data Sources for a Gender Street Map / Florian Ledermann, Vienna, 316
Towards unMaking maps: A Guide to Experiments in Paracartography / John Krygier, Denis Wood, Raleigh & Delaware, 322
THIS IS NOT A CONCLUSION
Discussing Counter-Cartographies / Denis Wood, Iconoclasistas, Andre Mesquita, Francis Harvey, Lize Mogel, Counter Cartographies Collective and Felipe Martín Novoa, 328
Editorial - This Is Not an Atlas / Severin Halder, Boris Michel, Berlin, 12
Counter-Cartographies - The Insurrection of Maps / André Mesquita, São Paulo, 26
COUNTER-CARTOGRAPHIES AS A TOOL FOR ACTION
Mapping the Anti-Eviction Struggle in the San Francisco Bay Area / Anti-Eviction Map, Erin McElroy, San Francisco, 38
A New Social Cartography: Defending Traditional Territories by Mapping in the Amazon / Projeto Nova Cartografia Social da Amazônia, Alfredo Wagner Berno de Almeida, Sheilla Borges Dourado, Carolina Bertolini, Manaus & São Luis, 46
A View from Above - Balloon Mapping Bourj Al Shamali [Palestine Refugee Camp, Lebanon] / Claudia Martinez Mansell, Mustapha Dakhloul, Firas Ismail, New York & Bourj Al Shamali, 54
Mapping Safe Passages: Real-Time Interventions at the Maritime Borders of Europe / Stephan Liebscher, Ina Fisher, Berlin, 60
Militarization of Rio de Janeiro's Favelas: Measuring Impacts on the Lives of Young Black Men and Women through Social Cartography / Fórum de Juventudes do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, 66
Political Action Maps: Finding your Way in Demonstrations and Protests / Kartographische Aktion, Germany, 72
This Land Is Your Land: Strategies for Making the Potential Commons Visible and Actionable. 596acres / Paula Z. Segal, Mara Kravitz, New York, 76
COUNTER-CARTOGRAPHIES TIE NETWORKS
X-Ray of Soy Agribusiness in the Pampa and Mega-Mining in the Andes / Iconoclasistas, Julia Risler, Pablo Ares, Buenos Aires, 86
Mapping Global Environmental Conflicts and Spaces of Resistance: Environmental Justice Atlas / Leah Temper, Barcelona, 92
Collaborative Cartography in Defense of the Commons / Geo Communes, Mexico, 98
Knitted Flood Wall / Martina O'Brien, Dublin, 102
COUNTER-CARTOGRAPHIES BUILD POLITICAL PRESSURE
Indigenous Cartography in Acre: Influencing Public Policy in Brazil / Comissão Pró-Índio do Acre, Renato Antonio Gavazzi, Rio Branco, 110
Making Cartographies of Ourselves / CRAC Valparaiso, Paulina E. Varas, José Llano Loyola, Valparaiso, 116
A Civic Mapping Project in an Indian Megacity: The Uses and Challenges of Spatial Data for Critical Research / Hyderabad Urban Lab - Harsha Devulapalli, Indivar Jonnalagadda, Hyderabad, 120
Mapping Sexual Harassment in Egypt / HarassMap, Cairo, 126
Untangling the Strategies of Capital - Towards a Critical Atlas of Ecuador / Colectivo de Geografía Crítica del Ecuador, Quito, 130
A Students' Map for a Students' Building: Working from within and beyond the Map / Geoide en Revolución, Buenos Aires, 136
COUNTER-CARTOGRAPHY IS EDUCATION
Counter-Mapping for Resistance and Solidarity in the Philippines: Between Art, Pedagogy and Community / Arnisson Andre C. Ortega, Ma. Simeona M. Martinez, Cian Dayrit, Kristian Karlo C. Saguin, Quezon City & Pasig City, 144
Mapping Inside (and Outside) the Classroom / Nicolás Frank, Fernanda García, Uruguay, 152
Protest Map, Cartoon and Propaganda: The Hidden Object Map Right to the City / Marc Amann, Markus Wende, Tübingen & Berlin, 158
HOW TO BECOME AN OCCASIONAL CARTOGRAPHER
Making Maps: A Visual Guide to Map Design with GPS / Denis Wood, John Krygier, Raleigh & Delaware, 165
Manual of Collective Mapping / Iconoclasistas - Julia Risler, Pablo Ares, Buenos Aires, 183
A Guideline for Solidary Mapping / Anna Hirschmann, Raphael Kiczka, Florian Ledermann, participants of the Solidary Mapping Workshop, Vienna, 205
COUNTER-CARTOGRAPHIES CREATE VISIBILITY
Counter-Mapping Militant Research / Counter Cartographies Collective - Liz Mason-Deese, Craig Dalton, Nathan Swanson, Tim Stallmann, Maribel Casas-Cortes, Sebastian Cobarrubias, North Carolina, 212
Mapping the Squatting Movement / Pappsatt-Kollektiv - Tobias Morawski, Berlin, 222
Emancipatory Mapmaking: Lessons from Kibera / Erica Hagen, Julian Stenmanns, Till Straube, Washington D.C. & Frankfurt, 228
Mapping Postkolonial: An Archive of Post/Colonial Traces, Layers and Spectres in Munich / mapping.postkolonial.net - Eva Bahl, Simon Goeke, Zara Pfeiffer, Peter Spillmann, Michael Vögeli, Philip Zölls, Munich, 234
Open-Source Aerial Imagery as a Critique Tool: The Extractive Geopolitics Project / Imaginando Buenas, Montevideo, 240
You Must Buy before You Can Fly: The Airport Malls / Philippe Rekacewicz, Eydehavn, 244
COUNTER-CARTOGRAPHIES SHOW SPATIAL SUBJECTIVITY
Visualizing the Counter-Narratives of Port Said: An Experiment of Mapping Social History / Nermin Elsherif, Cairo, 252
Counter-Cartographies of Exile / Sarah Mekdjian, Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary, Grenoble, 258
The Materiality Language of Cartography: Textile Maps of Morrocan Working-Class Neighbourhood in Marrakech / Elise Olmedo, Marseille, 264
Imaging Homelessness in a City of Care: Participatory Mapping with Homeless People / Oliver Moss, Adele Irving, NewcastleGateshead, 270
Tyneside's Skateworlds and Their Transformation: Production and Consumption of Participatory Post-Representational Cartographies / Jon Swords, Mike Jeffries, Newcastle, 276
Far Rock: AnneMarie's Mental Map of New York / Aaron Reiss, San Francisco, 282
COUNTER-CARTOGRAPHIES AS SELF-REFLECTION
Information Overload - From the Map to the Ground and Back / Elisa T. Bertuzzo, Günter Nest, Berlin, 286
C/Artographies of Positionality: Or How We Try to Situate Ourselves as a Working Group in Academia / Working Group Critical Geographies of Global Inequalities, Hamburg, 294
Deep Maps / Brett Bloom, Chicago, 300
COUNTER-CARTOGRAPHIES AS CRITIQUE
Uneven Digital Geographies … and Why They Matter / Mark Graham, Stefano De Sabbata, Ralph Straumann, Sanna Ojanpera, London, Leicester, Oxford, Zürich, 308
From Data Commons to (Critical) Cartography: Linking Data Sources for a Gender Street Map / Florian Ledermann, Vienna, 316
Towards unMaking maps: A Guide to Experiments in Paracartography / John Krygier, Denis Wood, Raleigh & Delaware, 322
THIS IS NOT A CONCLUSION
Discussing Counter-Cartographies / Denis Wood, Iconoclasistas, Andre Mesquita, Francis Harvey, Lize Mogel, Counter Cartographies Collective and Felipe Martín Novoa, 328
