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87/ Counter-Cartographies: Mapping Back our World (With Boris Michel and Paul Schweizer)

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This is a conversation with Boris Michel and Paul Schweizer who helped create the ‘This Is Not an Atlas (https://orangotango.info/this-is-not-an-atlas/) ‘ book for Kollectiv Orangotango, which is available as a free PDF.



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Topics Discussed:




• What is ‘This is Not an Atlas’?


• What traditional cartographies erase


• The relationship between maps and power


• When do maps work?


• Examples of Alarm Phone (https://alarmphone.org/en/) and Indigenous mapping


• How to become an occasional cartographer


• Discussion of: Is This Is Not an Atlas an Atlas? On the Pitfalls of Editing a Global Collection of Counter-Cartographies (https://www.utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.3138/cart-2019-0011?journalCode=cart)


• How can cartography help us understand our relationship to nature?


• What is hydrocartography?




Recommended books:




• Manual of collective mapping (https://issuu.com/iconoclasistas/docs/manual_mapping_ingles) by iconoclasistas


• Counterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement & Resistance (https://antievictionmap.com/) by Anti-Eviction Mapping Project


• Weaponizing Maps: Indigenous Peoples and Counterinsurgency in the Americas (https://www.amazon.com/Weaponizing-Maps-Indigenous-Counterinsurgency-Americas/dp/1462519911) by Joe Bryan and Denis Wood


• Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability (https://www.amazon.com/Forensic-Architecture-Violence-Threshold-Detectability/dp/1935408860) by Eyal Weizman


• The Natures of Maps: Cartographic Constructions of the Natural World (https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo5896623.html) by Denis Wood and John Fels
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