by Gökçen Erkılıç “For no two successive days is the shore line precisely the same.” Rachel Carson Did you recognize that the coastline of Istanbul is slowly changing? There is an ongoing disposition of urban materials between water and earth. The urban debris, the construction sites, and infrastructures shape the coast. “This is not a […]
Is “This Is Not an Atlas” an Atlas? On the Pitfalls of Editing a Global Collection of Counter-Cartographies
Over two years ago we published “This Is Not an Atlas”. This was the starting point for a journey through the wonderful world of counter-cartographies. When we reflect on what Not-an-Atlas has become since its publication, the images (and emotions) that come to our mind are predominantly related to encounters: the diverse co-organizers and participants […]
Counterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement and Resistance
The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project’s (AEMP) work is inspiring for activist cartographers and mapping activists in a number of ways: its strategic use of maps to accuse the manifold forms of oppression in neoliberal urbanization; its commitment to local communities and underrepresented spatial subjectivities; and its involvement with multiple (artistic, scientific, tech…) means of activist action. […]
Cartography as an Instrument of Emancipation
In times of the pandemic, of social distancing and online conferences, our friend and fellow counter-cartographers at UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil,1 invited Ângela Katuta and Pablo Mansilla Quiñones to discuss “Cartography as an Instrument of Emancipation.” Watch these inciting talks and debate on indigenous cartographies, collective mapping and different ways of being in the world […]
geographic post-colonial: How maps and images make the world
The exhibition “geographic post-colonial: How maps and images make the world”, conceived and realized by the working group Critical Geographies of Global Inequalities at Hamburg University, uses six different keyholes to provide a critical insight into how Hamburg geographers* have been creating the world through maps and images since the 19th century, how these views of the world have changed again and again, and what consequences this has had and continues to have in different areas.
