This is a conversation with Boris Michel and Paul Schweizer who helped create the ‘This Is Not an Atlas‘ book for Kollectiv Orangotango, which is available as a free PDF. This is episode 87 of The Fire These Times.
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Music by Tarabeat.
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 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
- How can cartography help us understand our relationship to nature?
- What is hydrocartography?
Recommended books:
- Manual of collective mapping by iconoclasistas
- Counterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement & Resistance by Anti-Eviction Mapping Project
- Weaponizing Maps: Indigenous Peoples and Counterinsurgency in the Americas by Joe Bryan and Denis Wood
- Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability by Eyal Weizman
- The Natures of Maps: Cartographic Constructions of the Natural World by Denis Wood and John Fels
If you like what I do, please consider supporting this project with only 1$ a month on Patreon or on BuyMeACoffee.com. You can also do so directly on PayPal if you prefer.
Patreon is for monthly, PayPal is for one-offs and BuyMeACoffee has both options.
You can follow on Twitter or Instagram @ firethesetimes too.
If you can’t donate anything, you can still support this project by sharing with your friends and leaving a review wherever you get your podcasts!
Music by Tarabeat.
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