Compass to #cartopolitics
The Nijmegen Centre for Border Research (NCBR) is fascinated by the duality that makes borders the arenas of suffering, death, and oppression but also the theaters of desire, adventure, and freedom. Persuaded that maps create borders in minds before they create them in space, this blog aims at exploring alternative ways of representing those borders. Our intention is to inspire the development of new cartographies that assume the political responsibility of the discourses they promote. We have crafted the following manifesto on the conviction that any enterprise to liberate mapmaking would be greatly helped by a compass of guidelines. Its directions ought to be precise enough to provide a sense of orientation, yet loose enough to allow creativity to embark on bold journeys:
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