In November and December of 2023, we led a three weeks workshop-cycle on collective critical mapping at the University of Padova, in the frame of the Course Geographical Space: Concepts, tools and practices of the Master’s Degree in Local Development, with international students coming from various parts of the world, with different personal and academic […]
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 […]
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 […]
Untangling the Strategies of Capital
Ecuador’s Critical Geography Collective emerged in 2012 as a result of a happy encounter among geographers, social scientists and activists concerned with answering theoretical and practical questions about growing territorial tensions around the country. Even though Ecuador has had one of the most advanced constitutions in the world since 2008 pertaining to the rights of […]
Tyneside’s Skateworlds and their Transformation
Post-representation cartography is an approach to mapping which emphasizes the processes involved in map-making. The emphasis shifts from “the ‘rules’ of map design and techniques of cartographic production, and/or documenting and deconstructing the underlying ideologies and agendas of maps, to a processural perspective concerned with how mappings and cartographic design, technique and ideology emerge time […]
