vernacular mappings
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Slides from SoTM 2010, GironaTRANSCRIPT
vernacular mapping -and the ethics of what comes next
joe gerlachschool of geography // oxford university
SoTM 2010 // Girona
Gerlach, J. (2010) Vernacular mapping and the ethics of what comes next. Cartographica. 45; 3.
doi: 10.3138/carto.45.3.165
// 1. vernacular mapping // 2. ethics
// vernacular mapping
JB Harley // Denis Wood
“More indigenous territory has been claimed by maps than by guns. This assertion has its corollary: more indigenous territory can be reclaimed and defended by maps than by guns”.
// Bernard Nietschmann (1995)
vernacular mapping as...
// mundane// shifting spaces// co-fabricated“space times of everyday life co-fabricated between
human and nonhuman practices and pathways”
// Sarah Whatmore (2003)
// ethics
...are cartographers concerned at all with howmaps could answer the Socratic question,
‘how should one live’?
// JB Harley (1993)
“Maps are never fully formed and their work is never complete. Maps are transitory and fleeting, being contingent, relational and context-dependent; they are always mappings; spatial practices enacted to solve relational problems”
// Kitchin & Dodge (2007)
// Lima Mapping Weekend// 21-22 August