+ Other Cartographies
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La #cartographie par les #femmes
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Other Cartographies
►https://othercartographies.comThroughout history, women have been recognized for their achievements at a precise moment, but written off in the historical context. Although equal rights movements have prospered since the 20th century in the interdisciplinary division, female cartographers fall into this kind of invisibility. Many have written about the oblivion of women in different disciplines but this website highlights the contributions of women in the Cartography world.
Cartography has been fundamental to understand the territory and the spaces within it. The fact that female cartographers’ work has been overshadowed by the Patriarchy has helped them formalize a new approach where subaltern groups are noticed and represented in the maps. This powerlessness gave women the courage to express geography in a different perspective; theirs.
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Mapping Out the Hidden World of Women Cartographers – News Watch
►http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2014/01/30/shining-a-light-on-the-hidden-world-of-women-cartograp
“Oftentimes the world of women cartographers seems to be hidden, much like the so-called dark side of the moon,” says Will C. Van Den Hoonaard in Map Worlds: A History of Women in Cartography, newly published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press. As it turns, a woman—the Russian-born cartographer Kira Shingareva—was one of the first mapmakers to plot the dark side of the moon in 1965. We asked Van Den Hoonaard, a professor emeritus of sociology at the University of New Brunswick, to tell us more about what he calls “cartography from the margins.”
What provoked your interest in the subject of women cartographers?
I started out as a cartographic editor, at one point served on a committee, and noticed how happy a colleague was. I asked why and she told me she had just been named chair of the International Cartographic Association’s Commission on Gender and Cartography. That started me thinking…
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Other cartographies
Throughout history, women have been recognized for their achievements at a precise moment, but written off in the historical context. Although equal rights movements have prospered since the 20th century in the interdisciplinary division, female cartographers fall into this kind of invisibility. Many have written about the oblivion of women in different disciplines but this website highlights the contributions of women in the Cartography world.
Cartography has been fundamental to understand the territory and the spaces within it. The fact that female cartographers’ work has been overshadowed by the Patriarchy has helped them formalize a new approach where subaltern groups are noticed and represented in the maps. This powerlessness gave women the courage to express geography in a different perspective; theirs.
►https://othercartographies.com
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@reka, le lien que tu as mis ne semble pas valable, voici le lien qui marche chez moi :
▻https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2014/01/30/mapping-out-the-hidden-world-of-women-cartographers
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