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
Militarization of Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas – Measuring Impacts on the
Lives of Young Black Men and Women through Social Cartography
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
Knitted Flood Wall
Counter-Cartographies Build Political Pressure
Indigenous Cartography in Acre – Influencing Public Policy in Brazil
Making Cartographies of Ourselves
A Civic Mapping Project in an Indian Megacity
The Uses and Challenges of Spatial Data for Critical Research
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
The Materiality Language of Cartography
Textile Maps of Morrocan Working-Class Neighbourhood in Marrakech
Imaging Homelessness in a City of Care
Participatory Mapping with Homeless People
Tyneside’s Skateworlds and Their Transformation – Production and
Consumption of Participatory Post-Representational Cartographies
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
Deep Maps
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
Glossary
