Critical cartography as anarchist pedagogy? Ideas for praxis inspired by the 56a infoshop map archive
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Firth, R. 2014. Critical cartography as anarchist pedagogy? Ideas for praxis inspired by the 56a infoshop map archive. Interface : a journal for and about social movements. 16 (1), pp. 156-184.
Authors | Firth, R. |
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Abstract | Critical cartography is a methodology and pedagogy that begins from the premise that maps are embodiments of power. It advocates utopian possibilities for other mapping practices, providing tools for communities to spatially illustrate their struggles whilst reconstituting social bonds through collective knowledge production. Whilst critical cartographers gesture towards activist initiatives, a lot of the literature focuses mainly on theory and is light on alternative practices, failing to explore their pedagogical and transformative value. Furthermore, those literatures that do study practice tend to focus on ‘counter-mapping’, for example enabling indigenous communities to make resource claims. Such practices undoubtedly have progressive uses but have also been criticized for investing in dominant spatial practice and for perpetuating exclusions and hierarchies. This paper argues for a critical cartographic practice based on an anarchist ethos of anti- rather than counter-hegemony, drawing ideas of cartographic pedagogy as affect, |
Keywords | cartography; pedagogy; anarchism |
Journal | Interface : a journal for and about social movements |
Journal citation | 16 (1), pp. 156-184 |
ISSN | 2009 – 2431 |
Year | 2014 |
Publisher | National University of Ireland Maynooth |
Publisher's version | License CC BY-NC-SA |
Web address (URL) | http://www.interfacejournal.net/2014/06/interface-volume-6-issue-1-movement-pedagogies/ |
Publication dates | |
01 May 2014 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 07 Jul 2014 |
https://repository.uel.ac.uk/item/85q12
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