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

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.

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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 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