Week 7: Tuesday, March 2: OTHER CARTOGRAPHIC GENEALOGIES + SPATIAL ONTOLOGIES

Kalaallit Nunaat Driftwood “Map,” via Decolonial Atlas

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” 

Teozacoalco, 1580, via University of Texas at Austin

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