The Fire These Times

87/ Counter-Cartographies: Mapping Back our World (With Boris Michel and Paul Schweizer)

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This is a conversation with Boris Michel and Paul Schweizer who helped create the ‘This Is Not an Atlas‘ book for Kollectiv Orangotango, which is available as a free PDF.

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Topics Discussed:

  • What is ‘This is Not an Atlas’?
  • What traditional cartographies erase
  • The relationship between maps and power
  • When do maps work?
  • Examples of Alarm Phone and Indigenous mapping
  • How to become an occasional cartographer
  • Discussion of: Is This Is Not an Atlas an Atlas? On the Pitfalls of Editing a Global Collection of Counter-Cartographies
  • How can cartography help us understand our relationship to nature?
  • What is hydrocartography?

    • Recommended books:

    • Manual of collective mapping by iconoclasistas
    • Counterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement & Resistance by Anti-Eviction Mapping Project
    • Weaponizing Maps: Indigenous Peoples and Counterinsurgency in the Americas by Joe Bryan and Denis Wood
    • Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability by Eyal Weizman
    • The Natures of Maps: Cartographic Constructions of the Natural World by Denis Wood and John Fels
      • ...more
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