Talking Maps : Arctic atlas reads out Inuit names | Toronto Star
Voilà une initiative qui mérite qu’on s’y arrête... C’est de la cartographie radicale : ils cartographient les territoires du Nunavut en le décolonisant complètement et en réhabilitant la toponymie inuit. Le résultat est surprenant pour ne pas dire époustouflant
▻http://arcticbayatlas.ca/names.html
▻http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/03/21/talking_maps_arctic_atlas_reads_out_inuit_names.html
Fraser Taylor’s atlas of Canada’s high Arctic reads out the names of the towns to you. The real names.
Cape Strathcona is Arvaaqtuuq. Peter Richards Island is Qikiqtatannak
It is, the eminent Carleton University geographer explains, a decolonization of the Nunavut map and a repatriation of the Inuit names.
Taylor, who coined the term cybercartography, doesn’t stop with simple renaming. The Arctic Bay Atlas, the latest of his life’s work to remap the land according to the people who live on it, includes oral histories, photographs, slide shows, artists’ depictions and videos.
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