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.
Table of content
Introduction
Editorial – This Is Not an Atlas
Counter-Cartographies – The Insurrection of Maps
Counter-Cartographies as a Tool for Action
Mapping the Anti-Eviction Struggle in the San Francisco Bay Area
A New Social Cartography – Defending Traditional Territories by Mapping in the Amazon
A View from Above – Balloon Mapping Bourj Al Shamali
Mapping Safe Passages Real – Time Interventions at the Maritime Borders of Europe
Political Action Maps – Finding your Way in Demonstrations and Protests
This Land Is Your Land – Strategies for Making the Potential Commons Visible and Actionable
Counter-Cartographies Tie Networks
X-Ray of Soy Agribusiness in the Pampa and Mega-Mining in the Andes
Mapping Global Environmental Conflicts and Spaces of Resistance
Collaborative Cartography in Defense of the Commons
Counter-Cartographies Build Political Pressure
Indigenous Cartography in Acre – Influencing Public Policy in Brazil
Making Cartographies of Ourselves
Mapping Sexual Harassment in Egypt
Untangling the Strategies of Capital – Towards a Critical Atlas of Ecuador
A Students’ Map for a Students’ Building – Working from within and beyond the Map
Counter-Cartography Is Education
Counter-Mapping for Resistance and Solidarity in the Philippines Between Art, Pedagogy and Community
Mapping Inside (and Outside) the Classroom
Protest Map, Cartoon and Propaganda – The Hidden Object Map Right to the City
How to Become an Occasional Cartographer
Making Maps – A Visual Guide to Map Design with GPS
Manual of Collective Mapping
A Guideline for Solidary Mapping
Counter-Cartographies Create Visibility
Counter-Mapping Militant Research
Mapping the Squatting Movement
Emancipatory Mapmaking – Lessons from Kibera
Mapping Postkolonial – An Archive of Post/Colonial Traces, Layers and Spectres in Munich
Open-Source Aerial Imagery as a Critique Tool – The Extractive Geopolitics Project
You Must Buy before You Can Fly – The Airport Malls
Counter-Cartographies Show Spatial Subjectivity
Visualizing the Counter-Narratives of Port Said – An Experiment of Mapping Social History
Counter-Cartographies of Exile
Imaging Homelessness in a City of Care – Participatory Mapping with Homeless People
Far Rock – AnneMarie’s Mental Map of New York
Counter-Cartographies as Self-Reflection
Information Overload – From the Map to the Ground and Back
C/Artographies of Positionality – Or How We Try to Situate Ourselves as a Working Group in Academia
Counter-Cartographies as Critique
Uneven Digital Geographies … and Why They Matter
From Data Commons to (Critical) Cartography – Linking Data Sources for a Gender Street Map
Towards unMaking maps – A Guide to Experiments in Paracartography
This Is Not a Conclusion
Discussing Counter-Cartographies
