This week we’ll think about non-Western cartographic traditions and how they manifest different ontologies, epistemologies, and politics.
TODAY’S AGENDA:
- Map Critiques #3: Daniel, Anna, Galen, Zhibang
- Reading Discussion
- GUEST, 7:30 – 8:30pm EST (2:30 – 3:30 HAST): Candace Fujikane, Ph.D., Professor of English at the University of Hawai’i and Author of Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future: Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartographies in Hawai’i (Duke University Press, 2021).
TO PREPARE FOR TODAY:
- Candace Fujikane, “Introduction: Abundant Cartographies for a Planetary Future” in Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future: Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartographies in Hawai’i (Duke University Press, 2021): 1-30.
- Adam Loften and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, “Counter Mapping,” emergence magazine (December 2019).
- Explore some sample projects (which embody quite disparate politics!) in our “Indigenous Maps” Arena channel, and check out this Twitter thread on the risks of using Google Maps to chart indigenous terrains.
- As you can see below, there are a wealth of fabulous resources about indigenous mapping. Please find and read one that pertains to your interests – whether inclusive participatory mapping workshops (Chari), graphic means of capturing indigenous ontologies (Wickens Pearce and Pualani Louis), place names (Cogos et al., Leonard, or Wickens Pearce’s “Coming Home”), or something else!
- Recommended Listening: Luke Howard, “The Map Is Not the Territory”
Supplemental Resources:
- Nabil Ahmed, “Land Rights: Counter-Mapping West Papua,” continent. 4:4 (2015).
- Clayton Aldern, “Cartographers Without Borders,” LOGIC 4 (2018) [indigenous drone mapping].
- Penelope Anthias, “Ambivalent Cartographies: Exploring the Legacies of Indigenous Land Titling Through Participatory Mapping,” Critique of Anthropology 39:2 (2019).
- *Ivana Bevilacqua, “Re/composing Autonomous Cartographies of Indigenous Resistance,”Arts Cabinet (December 17, 2020).
- Tiffany Camhi, Jenn Chávez, and Crystal Ligori, “Indigenous People, in Oregon and Beyond, Are Decolonizing Maps,” Oregon Public Broadcasting (November 28, 2020) < radio >.
- *Sunitha Chari, “Mapping Back: A Workshop on Counter Mapping Resource Conflicts on Indigenous Homelands,” Transformations to Sustainability (December 4, 2017).
- Sarah Cogos, Marie Roué, and Samuel Roturier, “Sami Place Names and Maps: Transmitting Knowledge of a Cultural Landscape in Contemporary Contexts,” Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 49 (2017).
- Decolonial Atlas.
- Ceridwen Dovey, “The Mapping of Massacres,” The New Yorker (December 6, 2017).
- **Gwilyn Lucas Eades, Maps and Memes: Redrawing Culture, Place, and Identity in Indigenous Communities (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2015).
- Mishuana Goeman, Mark My Words: Native Women Mapping Our Nations (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013).
- *Google Earth, “Creating Map Icons that Reflect the Culture and Traditions of Indigenous Australians” (2019) < video: 2:45 >.
- Julianna A. Hazlewood and the Communities of La Chiquita and Guadualito, “Court Issues Ruling in World’s First ‘Rights of Nature’ Lawsuit,” Intercontinental Cry (February 16, 2017).
- Werner Herzog, Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin (2020): 28:00 > 44:00 [all the typical Herzogian caveats apply 😉].
- John Hessler, “A Curator’s Look at Indigenous Mapping in the Early Americas,” Rare Book School (2020): Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.
- History of Cartography Volume 2: three volumes on traditional cartographies.
- Dallas Hunt and Shaun A. Stevenson, “Decolonizing Geographies of Power: Indigenous Digital Counter-Mapping Practices on Turtle Island,” Settler Colonial Studies (2016).
- **Karin Amimoto Ingersoll, Waves of Knowing: A Seascape Epistemology (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016).
- Tara L. Joy, Hereward Longley, Carmen Wells, and Jenny Gerbrandt, “Ethnographic Refusal in Traditional Land Use Mapping: Consultation, Impact Assessment, and Sovereignty in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region,” The Extractive Industries and Society 5:2 (2018): 335-43.
- Kelsey Leonard, “Putting Indigenous Place Names and Languages Back on Maps,” ESRI (Winter 2021).
- G. Malcolm Lewis, Ed., Cartographic Encounters: Perspectives on Native American Mapmaking and Map Use (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998).
- **Renee Pualani Lois, with Moana Kahele, Kanaka Hawai’I Cartography: Hula, Navigation, and Oratory (Portland: Oregon State University, 2017).
- Andrés Luque-Ayala and Flávia Neves Maia,”Digital Territories: Google Maps a a Political Technique in the Remaking of Urban Informality,” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 37:3 (2019).
- **Thomas J. McGurk and Sébastian Caquard, “To What Extent Can Online Mapping Be Decolonial? A Journey Throughout Indigenous Cartography in Canada,” The Canadian Geographer 64:1 (2020).
- Ray P. Norris & Bill Yidumduma Harney, “Songlines and Navigation in Wardaman and Other Australian Aboriginal Cultures,” Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage 17:2 (2014): 141-8.
- *Rachel Olson, Jeffrey Hackett & Steven DeRoy, “Mapping the Digital Terrain: Towards Indigenous Geographic Information and Spatial Data Quality Indicators for Indigenous Knowledge and Traditional Land-Use Data Collection,” The Cartographic Journal 53:4 (2016).
- *Jason Pellegrino, “Experience the Songlines of Uluru with Google Maps Street View and Story Spheres,” Google Maps Blog (June 7, 2017) + Rob Beschizza, “Uluru ‘Removed’ From Google Street View,” BoingBoing (September 25, 2020).
- Lisa Poggiali, “Seeing (from) Digital Peripheries: Technology and Transparency in Kenya’s Silicon Savannah,” Cultural Anthropology 31:1 (August 2016).
- *Julie Raymond-Yakoubian, “Mapping and Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic,” in Oran R. Young, Paul Arthur Berkman, and Alexander N. Vylegzhanin, eds., Governing Arctic Seas: Regional Lessons from the Bering Strait and Barents Sea, Vol. 1 (Springer Nature, 2020): 293-319.
- *Geneviève Reid and Renée Sieber, “Do Geospatial Ontologies Perpetuate Indigenous Assimilation?” Progress in Human Geography 44:2 (2020).
- Gina Dawn Richard, “Radical Cartographies: Relational Epistemologies and Principles for Successful Indigenous Cartographic Praxis,” Dissertation, University of Arizona, 2015.
- **Reuben Rose-Redwood, Natchee Blu Barnd, Annita Hetoevėhotohke’e Lucchesi, Sharon Dias, and Wil Patrick, “Decolonizing the Map” Special Issue, Cartographica 55:3 (Fall 2020).
- Ana Pulido Rull, Mapping Indigenous Land: Native Land Grants in Colonial New Spain (University of Oklahoma Press, 2020).
- Ana Pulilo Rull, “Mapping Indigenous Land,” David Rumsey Map Center (November 6, 2020) < video: 1:53:40 >.
- Eva Salinas, with Sébastien Caquard, “The Politics of Making Maps,” Canadian International Council (November 12, 2014).
- Teresa Scassa, Nate J. Engler & D.R. Fraser Taylor, “Legal Issues in Mapping Traditional Knowledge: Cartography in the Canadian North,” The Cartographic Journal 52:1 (2015): 41-50.
- “Seeing the Song,” ABC Indigenous (2019) < video: 7:36 >.
- **Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom Through Radical Resistance (University of Minnesota Press, 2021).
- “Singing the Country to Life,” ABC (July 3, 2016).
- *“Songlines Explained,” Sydney Opera House (2016) < video: 4:55 >.
- Jota Stamper, “Toward an Epistemology of the Form of the Informal City: Mapping the Process of Informal City-Making,” Informal Settlements Research ISR (July 7, 2012).
- Sam Sturgis, “Kids in India are Sparking Urban Planning Changes by Mapping Slums,” The Atlantic’s CityLab (February 19, 2015).
- **Tony Syme, “Localizing Landscapes: A Call for Respectful Design in Indigenous Counter Mapping,” Information, Communication & Society 23:8 (2020).
- Brian Thom, “Ethnographic Mapping and Indigenous Cartographies,” Center for Digital Scholarship & Curation (2019) < video: 55:05 >.
- UCLA, Mapping Indigenous LA.
- Judith van der Elst, “Investigating Epistemological Implications of Geospatial Representation in the Making of Histories of the Pueblos, Using an Exploratory Mixed Methods Approach,” Dissertation, University of New Mexico (2012).
- Patricio González Vivo and Jen Lowe, “Guayupia,” The Map Is Not IV (2017).
- Helen Watson, “Aboriginal-Australian Maps,” Maps Are Territories.
- Jeffrey Yoo Warren, “Grassroots Mapping: Tools for Participatory and Activist Cartography,” Masters Thesis, MIT, 2010.
- Margaret Wickens Pearce, “Coming Home,” University of Maine.
- Margaret Wickens Pearce, “The Last Piece Is You,” The Cartographic Journal 51:2 (2014): 107-22.
- **Margaret Wickens Pearce and Renee Pualani Louis, “Mapping Indigenous Depth of Place,” American Indian Culture and Research Journal 32:3 (2008): 107-26 [you’ll find some repetition with Peluso’s piece but the major part of this article focuses on graphic applications]
- Denis Wood, “The Outside Critique: Indigenous Mapping” In Rethinking the Power of Maps (New York: Guilford Press, 2010): 129-142.