Full Description
Cartography has a troubled history as a technology of power. The production and distribution of maps, often understood to be ideological representations that support the interests of their developers, have served as tools of colonization, imperialism, and global development, advancing Western notions of space and place at the expense of Indigenous peoples and other marginalized communities. But over the past two decades, these marginalized populations have increasingly turned to participatory mapping practices to develop new, innovative maps that reassert local concepts of place and space, thus harnessing the power of cartography in their struggles for justice.
In twelve essays written by community leaders, activists, and scholars, Radical Cartographies critically explores the ways in which participatory mapping is being used by Indigenous, Afro-descendant, and other traditional groups in Latin America to preserve their territories and cultural identities. Through this pioneering volume, the authors fundamentally rethink the role of maps, with significant lessons for marginalized communities across the globe, and launch a unique dialogue about the radical edge of a new social cartography.
Contents
Introduction: Radical Social Cartographies (BjØrn Sletto)
Part I
1. Oral Narratives in the RincÓn Zapoteco: A Cartography of Processes (Melquiades (Kiado) Cruz)
2. Social Polygraphy: Territory as a Living Memorial to Culture and Nature (Álvaro CÉsar Velasco Álvarez)
3. Emulating Kuyujani: Boundary Making in the Caura River Basin, Venezuela (NalÚa Rosa Silva Monterrey)
Part II
4. Revealing Territorial Illusions and Political Fictions through Participatory Cartography (Wendy Pineda)
5. Mapuche Cartography: Defending Ixofillmogen (Pablo Mansilla QuiÑones and Miguel Melin Pehuen)
6. The Ethnocartography of Sumak Allpa: The Kichwa Indigenous Community of Pastaza, Ecuador (Alfredo Vitery and Alexandra LamiÑa)
7. Social Cartography and Territorial Planning in Robles, Colombia (Carlos Alberto GonzÁlez)
Part III
8. New Social Cartography and Ethnographic Practice (Alfredo Wagner Berno de Almeida)
9. Social Cartography and the Struggle for Multiethnic, Urban Indigenous Lands: The Case of the Beija-Flor Aldeia in Rio Preto da Eva, Brazil (Emmanuel de Almeida Farias JÚnior)
10. Participatory Cultural Mapping in Nvwken, Mapuce Territory, Argentina: Exploring Other Forms of Territorial Representation (MarÍa Laura Nahuel)
11. Political Appropriation of Social Cartography in Defense of Quilombola Territories in AlcÂntara, MaranhÃo, Brazil (Davi Pereira JÚnior)
Commentary: What Sort of Territory? What Sort of Map? (Joe Bryan)
Afterword (Charles R. Hale)
Contributors
Index
