This week we’ll think about ethnographies of mapping, as well as the use of cartography in ethnography and as a method in fieldwork within other scholarly disciplines and fields of practice.
TODAY’S AGENDA:
- GUEST, 6 – 7-ish: Cartographer and PhD Student David Garcia [Twitter]
- Map Critiques #1: Blake, Jason, Oscar
- Reading Discussion
TO PREPARE FOR TODAY:
Ethnographies of Navigation, Orientation, and Mapmaking:
- Cindy Lin, “How to Make a Forest,” e-flux architecture (April 10, 2020).
Mapmaking as an Ethnographic Method:
- Tim Wallace, “Kevin Lynch & The Imageable Boston,” Bostonography (December 15, 2010) [and follow Wallace’s link to the “Perceptual Forms of the City” material in the MIT Archives].
- Kevin Lynch, “The Uses of Method” in The Image of the City (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1960): 140-159 [consider also other sensory means of comprehending space!].
- Annette Kim, “Mapping the Unmapped” in Sidewalk City: Remapping Public Space in Ho Chi Minh City (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015): 84-149. See also Kim’s Spatial Analysis Lab.
- Consider non-urban applications of these approaches, too!
- Supplemental Applications [review what time allows!]:
- Perfect City Working Group, “What Do You Avoid? Where Do You Belong?” Urban Omnibus (July 5, 2017).
- Check out Dylan Moriarty, “Maps of Home” (October 22, 2020).
- Skim an excerpt of Denis Wood, Everything Sings: Maps for a Narrative Atlas (Siglio, 2010) [It’s worth noting that Wood is a complicated figure].
- Recommended Listening/Watching: Arcade Fire, “The Wilderness Downtown” (from 2010!)
Supplemental Resources:
- Ruben Anderson, “Here Be Dragons: Mapping an Ethnography of Global Danger,” Current Anthropology 57:6 (December 2016): 707-31.
- Jess Bier, Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine: How Occupied Landscapes Shape Scientific Knowledge (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2017).
- **Jess Bier, “Palestinian State Maps and Imperial Technologies of Staying Put,” Public Culture 29:1 (2016): 53-78.
- *Barry Brown and Eric Laurier, “Maps and Car Journeys: An Ethno-Methodological Approach,” Cartographica 40:3 (2005): 17-33.
- Mac Chapin and Bill Threlkeld, Indigenous Landscapes: A Study in Ethnocartography (Center for the Support of Native Lands, 2001).
- Chris Brennan-Horley, Susan Luckman, Chris Gibson, and Julie Willoughby-Smith, “GIS, Ethnography, and Cultural Research: Putting Maps Back Into Ethnographic Mapping,” The Information Society 2 (2010).
- Culture Mapping 2020 conference, NYU, April 2020: videos.
- Michel de Certeau, “Spatial Practices” In The Practice of Everyday Life (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1984): 100-134; Hand Drawn Map Association.
- Walter Dostal, “Toward Ethnographic Cartography: A Case Study,” Current Anthropology 25:3 (1984): 340-44.
- Elijah Adiv Edelman, “Mapping as Method: Articulations of Bodies in Place” in Trans Vitalities: Mapping Ethnographies of Trans, Social and Political Coalitions (Routledge, 2020).
- *David Farrier, “Desire Paths,” emergence magazine (October 13, 2020).
- Alfred Gell, “How to Read a Map: Remarks on the Practical Logic of Navigation,” Man 20:2 (1985): 271-86.
- Carolin Genz and Diana Lucas-Drogan, “Decoding Mapping as Practice: An Interdisciplinary Approach in Architecture and Urban Anthropology,” Urban Transcripts 1:4 (2017/2018).
- Neha Guta, “Maps and Myths,” Anthropology News (November 10, 2017).
- Tim Ingold, Lines: A Brief History (Routledge, 2007).
- Tim Ingold, “To Journey Along a Way of Life,” The Perception of the Environment: Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill (Routledge, 2011).
- *Kiril V. Istomin and Mark J. Dwyer, “Finding the Way: A Critical Discussion of Anthropological Theories of Human Spatial Orientation with Reference to Reindeer Herders of Northeastern Europe and Western Siberia,” Current Anthropology 50:1 (2009): 29-42.
- Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (New York: Verso, 1991): 49-54, 413-18.
- Rob Kitchin, Justin Gleeson & Martin Dodge, “Unfolding Mapping Practices: A New Epistemology for Cartography,” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 38:3 (July 2013): 480-96 [on ethnographies of making + using maps].
- Kevin Lynch, “The City Image and Its Elements” In The Image of the City (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1960): 46-90.
- Tom Martin, “Ethnographic Mapping,” in Alia R. Tyner-Mullings, Mary Gatta, and Ryan Coughlan, eds., Ethnography Made Easy (Manifold, 2020).
- Maria Teresa Nobre, Ana Karenina Arraes Amorim, and Simone Frangella, “Ethnography, Cartography, Ethnomapping: Dialogues and Compositions in the Field of Research,” Estudios de Psicologia 24:1 (2019).
- *Benjamin Orlove, “The Ethnography of Maps: The Cultural and Social Contexts of Cartographic Representation in Peru,” Cartographica 30:1 (1993): 29-46.
- Vishvajit Pandya, “Movement and Space: Andamanese Cartography,” American Ethnologist 17:4 (1990).
- *Brenda Parker, “Constructing Community Through Maps? Power and Praxis in Community Mapping,” The Professional Geographer 58:4 (2004): 470-84.
- Tristan Partridge, “Diagrams in Anthropology: Lines and Interactions,” Anthropology Off the Grid (n.d.).
- *Chris Perkins, “Cultures of Map Use,” The Cartographic Journal 45:2 (2008).
- Linda Poon, “Maps Made ‘From the Mind,’ Not from GPS,” CityLab (November 10, 2015).
- Les Roberts, ed., Mapping Cultures: Place, Practice, Performance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) – especially Cohen, Long + Collins, Andrews, Ben-Ze’ev, and Wood).
- Rydal, “Mapping Self in Society: A Personal Geography & Critical Spatial Inquiry Teaching Framework”
- Thurka Sangaramoorthy and Karen A. Kroeger, Rapid Ethnographic Assessments: A Practical Approach and Toolkit for Collaborative Community Research (Routledge, 2020).
- Rebecca Solnit, Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2010).
- Nato Thompson, Experimental Geography: Radical Approaches to Landscape, Cartography, and Urbanism (Brooklyn: Melville House, 2008).
- Janet Vertesi, “Mind the Gap: The London Underground Map and Users’ Representations of Urban Space,” Social Studies of Science 38:1 (2008): 7-33.
- *Clancy Wilmott, “‘Mapping-With’: The Politics of (Counter-)Classification in OpenStreetMap,” Cartographic Perspectives 92 (2019).