This is not an atlas

An Atlas of countercartography

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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

Severin Halder, Boris Michel / Berlin

Counter-Cartographies – The Insurrection of Maps

André Mesquita / São Paulo

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

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

A View from Above – Balloon Mapping Bourj Al Shamali

Claudia Martinez Mansell, Mustapha Dakhloul, Firas Ismail / New York & Bourj Al Shamali

Mapping Safe Passages Real – Time Interventions at the Maritime Borders of Europe

Stephan Liebscher, Ina Fisher / Berlin

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

Political Action Maps – Finding your Way in Demonstrations and Protests

Kartographische Aktion / Germany

This Land Is Your Land – Strategies for Making the Potential Commons Visible and Actionable

596acres – Paula Z. Segal, Mara Kravitz / New York

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

Mapping Global Environmental Conflicts and Spaces of Resistance

Environmental Justice Atlas – Leah Temper / Barcelona

Collaborative Cartography in Defense of the Commons

Geo Communes / Mexico

Knitted Flood Wall

Martina O’Brien / Dublin

Counter-Cartographies Build Political Pressure

Indigenous Cartography in Acre – Influencing Public Policy in Brazil

Comissão Pró-Índio do Acre – Renato Antonio Gavazzi / Rio Branco

Making Cartographies of Ourselves

CRAC Valparaiso – Paulina E. Varas, José Llano Loyola / Valparaiso

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

Mapping Sexual Harassment in Egypt

HarassMap / Cairo

Untangling the Strategies of Capital – Towards a Critical Atlas of Ecuador

Colectivo de Geografía Crítica del Ecuador / Quito

A Students’ Map for a Students’ Building – Working from within and beyond the Map

Geoide en Revolución / Buenos Aires

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

Mapping Inside (and Outside) the Classroom

Nicolás Frank, Fernanda García / Uruguay

Protest Map, Cartoon and Propaganda – The Hidden Object Map Right to the City

Marc Amann, Markus Wende / Tübingen & Berlin

How to Become an Occasional Cartographer

Making Maps – A Visual Guide to Map Design with GPS

Denis Wood, John Krygier / Raleigh & Delaware

Manual of Collective Mapping

Iconoclasistas – Julia Risler, Pablo Ares / Buenos Aires

A Guideline for Solidary Mapping

Anna Hirschmann, Raphael Kiczka, Florian Ledermann,
participants of the Solidary Mapping Workshop / Vienna

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

Mapping the Squatting Movement

Pappsatt-Kollektiv – Tobias Morawski / Berlin

Emancipatory Mapmaking – Lessons from Kibera

Erica Hagen, Julian Stenmanns, Till Straube / Washington D.C. & Frankfurt

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

Open-Source Aerial Imagery as a Critique Tool – The Extractive Geopolitics Project

Imaginando Buenas / Montevideo

You Must Buy before You Can Fly – The Airport Malls

Philippe Rekacewicz / Eydehavn

Counter-Cartographies Show Spatial Subjectivity

Visualizing the Counter-Narratives of Port Said – An Experiment of Mapping Social History

Nermin Elsherif / Cairo

Counter-Cartographies of Exile

Sarah Mekdjian, Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary / Grenoble

The Materiality Language of Cartography – Textile Maps of Morrocan Working-Class Neighbourhood in Marrakech

Elise Olmedo / Marseille

Imaging Homelessness in a City of Care – Participatory Mapping with Homeless People

Oliver Moss, Adele Irving / NewcastleGateshead

Tyneside’s Skateworlds and Their Transformation – Production and Consumption of Participatory Post-Representational Cartographies

Jon Swords, Mike Jeffries / Newcastle

Far Rock – AnneMarie’s Mental Map of New York

Aaron Reiss / San Francisco

Counter-Cartographies as Self-Reflection

Information Overload – From the Map to the Ground and Back

Elisa T. Bertuzzo, Günter Nest / Berlin

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

Deep Maps

Brett Bloom / Chicago

Counter-Cartographies as Critique

Uneven Digital Geographies … and Why They Matter

Mark Graham, Stefano De Sabbata, Ralph Straumann, Sanna Ojanperä / London, Leicester, Oxford, Zürich

From Data Commons to (Critical) Cartography – Linking Data Sources for a Gender Street Map

Florian Ledermann / Vienna

Towards unMaking maps – A Guide to Experiments in Paracartography

John Krygier, Denis Wood / Raleigh & Delaware

This Is Not a Conclusion

Discussing Counter-Cartographies

with Denis Wood, Iconoclasistas, Andre Mesquita, Francis Harvey, Lize Mogel, Counter Cartographies Collective and Felipe Martín Novoa

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