A disturbing silence Knowledge is power and the power to conceal property relations in housing is widely practiced in Switzerland, despite laws supposedly guaranteeing transparency. The housing sector and its attached real-estate industry cement inequalities and present a well-hidden secret in plain sight. Real Estate is the place to sink the “gold” of overburdening wealth […]
Information Overload
1-2-3 – it looks so harmless on the map: a thin line that runs eastwards, then takes a sharp 90-degree turn northwards and again 90-degrees eastwards up to the edge. Yet on the ground, the line is a concrete wall, built to demarcate the boundary between two worlds, the “legal” and the “illegal”, the accepted […]
Counter-Mapping for Resistance and Solidarity in the Philippines
Mapping is a deeply political practice. Especially when considering how it is embedded in the reproduction of power in the Philippine context. Historically, mapping can be linked to colonial exploits and imperial pursuits as it attempts to represent colonized populations and places within a legible territory conducive for exploitation and control (see Harris & Hazen, […]
Emancipatory Mapmaking: Lessons from Kibera
Modern mapmaking in the global South has been deeply entwined with the colonial endeavor of producing legible spaces. Critical Geography has emphasized the role of maps in governing populations and their politics of in/visibility, especially concerning marginalized communities. What else can maps do? How can communities and activists deploy mapping technologies as tools that support […]
C/Artographies of Positionality
“This is a map! Is it? It’s a drawing! Is it really a map? It is!” Welcome Confusion! Confusion helps us to get our thoughts, emotions and boundaries moving and opens spaces for discussions and reflections on multiple levels. Being engaged as scholars in a neoliberalizing academy, we participate in the production and distribution of […]
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