#contre-cartographie

[Book] This is not an atlas

Attention pépite

This is not an atlas, est un bel ouvrage papier et pdf proposé en open access, qui rassemble plus de 40 documents de type « contre-cartographies » venant du monde entier.

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Ce n’est donc pas un atlas, au sens classique du terme : les projets (ou documents mis en avant) n’ont en effet pas pour vocation de restituer sous une forme cartographique formalisée une occupation de la surface terrestre, élaborée dans un contexte opérationnel.
L’objectif de cet ensemble de documents, rassemblés par le kollektiv orangotango, uniques et non comparables, est plutôt de montrer comment des représentations territoriales sont pensées, discutées et fabriquées, coproduites avec les populations concernées dans un contexte de recherche critique, mêlant des considérations artistiques à des objectifs pédagogiques, d’éducation critique.

La réflexion prend en effet souvent corps dans un contexte de lutte politique de diverses populations qui vont ainsi s’emparer de la « cartographie » pour proposer leur vision de leur territoire en s’appuyant sur des matériaux divers. Les représentations qui en découlent sont subjectives, en ce sens qu’elle parlent de leurs concepteurs-réalisateurs qu’il s’agisse d’indigène latino-américains, de femmes marocaines ou de réfugiés libanais.

Lire la suite dans une courte recension proposée sur le site de Neocarto : ▻https://neocarto.hypotheses.org/5922

Les productions étant classées par catégorie, sujet et région du monde concernée, etc. il est possible de consulter des projets ciblés. Par exemple, ceux qui relèvent (au hasard) du sujet Movement.

Voir une présentation du projet de contre-cartographie web Watchthemed sur Neocarto : ▻https://neocarto.hypotheses.org/5906

Toutes les productions sont consultables en ligne, sur le site du NonAtlas ici : ▻https://notanatlas.org/#atlas-maps

#atlas #contre-cartographie #nonatlas #géographie #représentation #territoire #critique #activisme

#Ground_Truth. Destruction and Return in al-’Araqīb

Ground Truth is an ongoing project that aims to provide historical and juridical evidence on behalf of communities in the illegalised Palestinian Bedouin villages in the northern threshold of the Negev/Naqab desert, Israel. While forced physical displacement and illegalisation render these communities non-existent on maps and aerial imaging, state-led land works and afforestation transform and erase their land and material cultural remains. The project aims to document and collate disparate legal, historical, and material evidence for the continuity of the sedentary presence of the Bedouin population on this land, as well as traces of their repeated displacement and destruction by government forces.

At the heart of the project are a community-led photographic dossier and a 3DGiS platform that utilises contemporary and historical images to map the presence and remnants of the Bedouin’s inhabitation. This first iteration of the project centres on the case of the al-’Araqīb village, which has been demolished over 116 times over the past 60 years. A second phase of the project would wish to expand the work into more unrecognised villages where establishing proof of continuity of presence would be helpful.

Through a collaborative process of DIY aerial photography with Public Lab, Zochrot, and the local families of al-’Araqīb, a kind of ’civic satellite’ is formed. We use kites and balloons equipped with simple cameras to form a methodology through which aerial and ground views can be gathered across multiple expeditions. These are assembled through photogrammetry into stacked geo-referenced 3D point-cloud photo terrains. Photographs, taken by residents and activists, document not only expulsion and destruction but also their ongoing life and resistance. These photographs, along with other media, data, and testimony, attest to an inflicted violence by connecting the history of this local land struggle to larger-scale and longer-term environmental transformations and to the conflicts that such changes have provoked.

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Et le #film :
▻https://vimeo.com/223268224

#destruction #paysage #palestine #Israël #Néguev #cartographie_radicale #contre-cartographie #cartographie_critique #Forensics_Architecture #architecture_forensique #effacement #traces #désert_du_Néguev
#al-Araqib #expropriation #bédouins
ping @sinehebdo @reka @nepthys @albertocampiphoto

#Push-back_map

Cette carte documente et dénonce des #push-backs systématiques. Ils sont une réalité quotidienne aux nombreuses #frontières de l’Europe et du monde. Renvoyer les gens à travers les frontières contre leur volonté est une pratique de l´État qui est violente, et qui doit cesser maintenant !

Veuillez noter que si un témoignage ou un rapport ne dispose pas d’une localisation GPS exacte, l’emplacement du marqueur ne sera qu’une approximation.

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#push-back #cartographie #contre-cartographie #cartographie_critique #cartographie_radicale #asile #migrations #réfugiés #cartographie_participative #violent_borders #monde
ping @reka @fil

Using Maps as a Weapon to Resist Extractive Industries on Indigenous Territories - Resilience

▻https://www.resilience.org/stories/2019-04-26/using-maps-as-a-weapon-to-resist-extractive-industries-on-indigenous-ter

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For Indigenous peoples across the Americas, urgent threats imposed by the industrial extraction of natural resources has characterized the 21st century. The expansion of industry has threatened Indigenous territories, cultures and sovereignty. These industries include: timber and pulp extraction, mining, oil and gas and hydroelectric development. As well, the extraction of human beings from their lands has real implications for the survival of communities.

The debate of territory is essential in these resource conflicts. Maps — and those who make and shape them — are central to the discussion of land rights, especially when it comes to industrial resource extraction and Indigenous peoples.

#cartographie_radicale #contre_cartographie #cartographie_participative #cartoexperiment

Counter-mapping: cartography that lets the powerless speak | Science | The Guardian
►https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2018/mar/06/counter-mapping-cartography-that-lets-the-powerless-speak

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Sara is a 32-year-old mother of four from Honduras. After leaving her children in the care of relatives, she travelled across three state borders on her way to the US, where she hoped to find work and send money home to her family. She was kidnapped in Mexico and held captive for three months, and was finally released when her family paid a ransom of $190.

Her story is not uncommon. The UN estimates that there are 258 million migrants in the world. In Mexico alone, 1,600 migrants are thought to be kidnapped every month. What is unusual is that Sara’s story has been documented in a recent academic paper that includes a map of her journey that she herself drew. Her map appears alongside four others – also drawn by migrants. These maps include legends and scales not found on orthodox maps – unnamed river crossings, locations of kidnapping and places of refuge such as a “casa de emigrante” where officials cannot enter. Since 2011, such shelters have been identified by Mexican law as “spaces of exception”.

#cartographie_radicale #contre_cartographie #cartographie_participative #cartoexperiment

GRU 111: Contracartografias

No contexto do Projeto Contracondutas, GRU-111: Contracartografias toma o AEROPORTO como objeto-ícone do contexto contemporâneo de mercadificação e globalização a ser dissecado, analisado e interpretado visual e graficamente.

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The Theft And Return Of Australian Indigenous Land 1788 To 2013

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The map above shows that between the establishment of the British penal colony of New South Wales in 1788 and the mid-1960s, Indigenous Australians were deprived and dispossessed of virtually all their land.

▻https://brilliantmaps.com/indigenous-australia
#aborigènes #contre-cartographie #cartographie_radicale #cartographie_critique #peuples_autochtones #cartographie #visualisation #Australie #géographie_du_plein #géographie_du_vide #terres #dépossession
ping @reka

« Ceci n’est pas un atlas ! » : comment contre-cartographier le monde - Nigra - Visionscarto
►https://visionscarto.net/recension-this-is-not-an-atlas

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Sous le signe des « trois c : critique, contre et cartographie » a paru en septembre 2018 chez Transcript Verlag l’impressionnant ouvrage This is Not an Atlas. Sur 346 pages, le collectif ORANGOTANGO+ et 41 autrices et auteurs ou groupes de tous pays nous montrent ce qu’est la contre-cartographie et de quelle façon elle peut contribuer à l’action politique envisagée par la base.

Une recension proposée par Nigra

Cet article est paru en allemand dans la revue Gai Dao, n°98 de février 2019
Traduction de @nepthys

#livre #cartographie_radicale #cartographie_critique #contre-cartographie

Une carte des massacres d’#aborigènes de l’ère coloniale australienne - Pacha cartographie

▻https://www.pacha-cartographe.fr/massacres-aborigenes

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Deux projets cartographiques révèlent la réalité sanglante de l’histoire coloniale australienne.

Pendant des décennies, les historiens, les politiciens et à peu près tout le monde ayant des opinions bien arrêtées sur la nationalité australienne se disputaient avec acharnement pour déterminer si les massacres des populations aborigènes avaient joué un rôle important dans la genèse de l’Australie moderne.

A ma gauche les tenant du oui pour qui la conquête européenne de l’Australie a été caractérisée par une violence systémique, de fréquentes effusions de sang et même un génocide. A ma droite les partisans d’une absence d’intention malveillante : supériorité technologique (des colons) et susceptibilité aux maladies (des indigènes) suffisant à expliquer la rapidité et l’ensemble du processus de colonisation…

En tout état de cause, l’histoire officielle ne laisse que peu de place à la possible acceptation d’un passé sanglant puisqu’il n’existe actuellement qu’une poignée de toponymes faisant référence à cette période sombre. De même, une vingtaine de monuments seulement commémore des massacres d’autochtones dans toute l’Australie. Souvent, les emplacements ne sont marqués que par une plaque ou un simple rocher.

#colonisation #australie

Appel à communication « #Contre-cartographies dans les Amériques »

▻https://www.unilim.fr/ehic/events/event/appel-a-communication-contre-cartographies-dans-les-ameriques

Encore un truc supr bien mis trop loin pour moi...

Contre-cartographies dans les Amériques, XVIème-XXIème siècles FLSH Université de Limoges, Laboratoire EHIC,
jeudi 7- vendredi 8 février 2019

L’émergence et la consolidation progressive de l’hégémonie de la cartographie en tant qu’outil de représentation de l’espace sont intimement liées au processus de colonisation européen du Nouveau Monde. La rapide expansion du « monde connu » à partir du XVIe siècle a engendré un profond renouvellement de la conception de l’espace et va en effet contribuer au rapide développement d’une science cartographique visant à traduire le monde sous la forme d’une image mobile et mobilisable (Mignolo). La carte se veut dès lors un outil stratégique, un instrument de savoir-pouvoir géopolitique fondamental : pour les Européens qui se lancent à la conquête du continent américain, cartographier ne signifie non pas seulement connaître et rendre intelligible mais aussi domestiquer, soumettre, occulter, contrôler et même contredire l’ordre de la nature. Outils de guerre, outils d’exercice de la souveraineté et d’emprise symbolique et matérielle sur l’espace national, les cartes deviennent des supports essentiels de la puissance gouvernementale des Etats modernes : elles rendent possible l’administration verticale des populations, des territoires et des ressources. Dans les Amériques, la carte, en objectivant le mythe de la terra nullius, a ainsi permis de naturaliser les opérations de dépossession, d’extraction et d’élimination qui ont accompagné l’avancée de la frontière interne et l’intégration progressive des peuples et des espaces à l’ordre de l’État-nation et à la logique du développement. (…)
Quels enjeux se trouvent derrière les dynamiques contre-cartographiques dans le contexte des Amériques ? Dans quel contexte les logiques contre-cartographiques peuvent-elles se mettre en place ? Comment se créent-elles et de quelles impulsions émanent-elles ? Quels savoirs sont mobilisés dans les processus d’élaboration contre-cartographique ? Dans quelle mesure parviennent-elles à déjouer les représentations hégémoniques de l’espace ? Ce colloque international se propose d’interroger les mécanismes de l’alliance entre cartes et domination et de sa subversion à travers la notion de contre-cartographie. Ce concept, issu de la géographie radicale (née des mouvements contre-culturels des années 1960 aux Etats-Unis), sera appliqué à d’autres disciplines et entendu dans un sens élargi, diachronique, trans- et pluridisciplinaire pour intégrer la diversité des formes cartographiques (cognitives, sonores, corporelles, artistiques, numériques, etc.) et des politiques de la représentation qui ont pour enjeu la critique des formes hégémoniques de production de l’espace. Les propositions pourront s’intégrer dans les axes suivants (liste non exhaustive) :

 Cartographie critique et radicale (militante, décoloniale, féministe, écologiste…)

 Logiques contre-étatiques et anti-impérialistes : cartographies alternatives

 Questionnements géopolitiques sur les sphères d’influence (mouvances, flux migratoires, frontières etc.)

 Remise en question et redéfinition des géographies culturelles et/ou linguistiques

 Cartographies des mondes souterrains (mafias, contrebandiers, hackers…)

 Détournement et déconstruction des cartes dans les arts et les lettres

 Contre-cartographies numériques

Les propositions devront être limitées à 500 mots et être accompagnées d’une courte biographie de leur auteur (200 mots) à envoyer avant le 15 octobre 2018 à lucie.genay@unilim.fr et diane.bracco@unilim.fr

Langues du colloque : français, anglais, espagnol. Le colloque donnera lieu à la publication d’un ouvrage en français aux Presses Universitaires de Limoges. La traduction des articles en anglais ou en espagnol devra être prise en charge par l’auteur.e.

Comité organisateur : Diane Bracco (études culturelles hispaniques) diane.bracco@unilim.fr Philippe Colin (civilisation latino-américaine) philippe.colin@unilim.fr Luis Fe-Canto (histoire espagnole) luis.fe-canto@unilim.fr Lucie Genay (civilisation des Etats-Unis) lucie.genay@unilim.fr Saïd Ouaked (civilisation des Etats-Unis) said.ouaked@unilim.fr

#cartographie_radicale

Counter Mapping

Jim Enote, a traditional Zuni farmer and director of the A:shiwi A:wan Museum and Heritage Center, is working with Zuni artists to create maps that bring an indigenous voice and perspective back to the land, countering Western notions of place and geography and challenging the arbitrary borders imposed on the Zuni world.

Jim Note :

“Maps have done a lot to confuse things for people. And I think more lands have been lost to native people probably through mapping than through physical conflits.”

"I wanted to do some maps that were both elegant, evocative and profoundly important to the Zuni people.

“I had no idea at the beginning that so much story would come out of this map making process. First I thought we would create some new kinds of maps that counter and challenge the notion of what maps are.”

"North does not have to be on the top. Scale is unnecessary. Was more important is the history described in these vignettes of experience. And now these are here

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“These maps become a thing that help families or groups to start speaking about places. Start learning from each others and talking about places in a way that is is uniquely Zuni”

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“There are maps in songs and in prayers. There are maps that are edged in stones and woven into textile and painted in ceramics.”

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“The names around here are in English and Spanish. So, they completely leave off the meaning of the place. It is replacing our language and eclypsing our language and knowledge with something different, something that starts really from here. This whole constellation of what makes up a map, to me it has always been far beyond a piece of paper.”

#toponymie

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“If my grandfa and grandma would would see the Zuni maps, I think they would have recognize quickly... ’Oh, yeah, this is what is in that song! This is what’s in those prayers! And I think as their descendents, they would have been proud”

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▻https://goprojectfilms.com/films/counter-mapping
#counter-mapping #contre-cartographie #terres #cartographie_radicale #cartographie_critique #peuples_autochtones #Jim_Note #savoirs #Zuni #film #documentaire #semences #agriculture #USA #Etats-Unis #identité
ping @reka @odilon

This Is Not an Atlas. A Global Collection of Counter-Cartographies

This Is Not an Atlas gathers more than 40 counter-cartographies from all over the world. This collection shows how maps are created and transformed as a part of political struggle, for critical research or in art and education: from indigenous territories in the Amazon to the anti-eviction movement in San Francisco; from defending commons in Mexico to mapping refugee camps with balloons in Lebanon; from slums in Nairobi to squats in Berlin; from supporting communities in the Philippines to reporting sexual harassment in Cairo. This Is Not an Atlas seeks to inspire, to document the underrepresented, and to be a useful companion when becoming a counter-cartographer yourself.

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#atlas (ou pas) #livre #cartographie #contre-cartographie
cc @reka @fil

Dee Morris & Stephen Voyce | Jacket2

▻https://jacket2.org/commentary/dee-morris-stephen-voyce

Ce site tout à fait original et passionnant propose des exemples de #contre-cartographie #cartographie_radicale #cartographie_critique mais pas seulement ...

Projet cartographie expérimentale
Tags généraux : #cartoexperiment #biblioxperiment
Tags particulier : #visualisation #complexité_visuelle

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Like the term eco-poetics, eco-mapping draws its discursive power from the oikos, whose etymological traces are manifest in both the ecological and the economic. We use it to signify a bio- rather than an anthro-pocentric approach to the complex relationships between cartography and planetary ecosystems. We agree with Donna Haraway that it is the capitalocene, and not the anthropocene, that figures the threat of mass extinction for all biotic and abiotic life. Read more

Invisible Institute Relaunches the Citizens Police Data Project
▻https://theintercept.com/2018/08/16/invisible-institute-chicago-police-data

The long effort by the Invisible Institute to gain access to internal police files is an important chapter in the struggle for civil rights in Chicago. Today the Invisible Institute, in collaboration with The Intercept, releases the Citizens Police Data Project 2.0, a public database containing the disciplinary histories of Chicago police officers. The scale of CPDP is without parallel : It includes more than 240,000 allegations of misconduct involving more than 22,000 Chicago police (...)

#police #surveillance #discrimination

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Ecological citizenship encourages transcending of territory, says expert
▻http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/chandigarh/ecological-citizenship-encourages-transcending-of-territory-says-expert/558552.html

The Chandigarh Social Science Congress (CHASSCONG) started today at Panjab University (PU) with Prof Sanjay Chaturvedi of the Political Science Department delivered the keynote address on ‘Denizens of Anthropocene: Climate refugees’.

Prof Chaturvedi dilated on various theoretical perspectives associated with citizens in the state-centric and realistic dialogues; the ‘climate refugee’ as a forced migrant, as victims of environmental disruptions and state-centered cartography — how contours of population and geography were mapped rather than recorded as they exist.

#cartographie_participative #contre-cartographie #cartographie_critique #cartoexperiment #inde #climat

Counter-mapping: cartography that lets the powerless speak | Science | The Guardian

►https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2018/mar/06/counter-mapping-cartography-that-lets-the-powerless-speak

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Sara is a 32-year-old mother of four from Honduras. After leaving her children in the care of relatives, she travelled across three state borders on her way to the US, where she hoped to find work and send money home to her family. She was kidnapped in Mexico and held captive for three months, and was finally released when her family paid a ransom of $190.

Her story is not uncommon. The UN estimates that there are 258 million migrants in the world. In Mexico alone, 1,600 migrants are thought to be kidnapped every month. What is unusual is that Sara’s story has been documented in a recent academic paper that includes a map of her journey that she herself drew. Her map appears alongside four others – also drawn by migrants. These maps include legends and scales not found on orthodox maps – unnamed river crossings, locations of kidnapping and places of refuge such as a “casa de emigrante” where officials cannot enter. Since 2011, such shelters have been identified by Mexican law as “spaces of exception”.

#cartographie_participative #contre-cartographie #cartographie_critique #cartoexperiment

Colonial and Redfern collaborate on community mapping project | Local News | sentinelsource.com

▻http://www.sentinelsource.com/news/local/colonial-and-redfern-collaborate-on-community-mapping-project/article_ea1c21a3-726f-5aa1-854d-6dc93ca75e71.html

▻https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeGAhU3HJKGTxRMIYTPEuROZQaDyHgT1sQRioKv_kjN5pLr_g/viewform

A physical education teacher at Springfield High School and an adjunct instructor at the Community College of Vermont, he incorporates counter-cartography — a process of mapping that challenges dominant power structures — into his courses. In his artwork, he is particularly interested in using maps to effect positive social change, he said.

#cartographie_participative #contre-cartographie #cartographie_critique #cartoexperiment #justice_sociale

Mapping Back : A workshop on counter mapping resource conflicts on Indigenous homelands | Transformations to Sustainability

▻https://transformationstosustainability.org/magazine/mapping-back-workshop-counter-mapping-resource-conf

Petite synthèse d’un atelier de cartographie participative à l’universite concordia de Montréal avec des représentants des #premières_nations.

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If I were to ask you to close your eyes and recall your favourite place, where would you travel behind closed eyes? What are the associated images, memories, emotions and sentiments that your mind’s journey evokes? If you live in the totality of the experience that this exercise has created, you begin to understand the meaning of a place. According to the geographer and researcher Sébastien Caquard, “A place is a location comprising both the material and the immaterial. The material comprising the landscape, geographical location and the topological characteristics, and immaterial comprising the human dimension of emotions, memories, reminiscences and recollections.”

#canada #peuples_autochtones

Paraguay’s first digital indigenous map aims to reduce land conflicts

BOGOTA, Nov 28 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Indigenous groups in #Paraguay, battling to protect their ancestral lands from expanding agriculture and cattle ranching, launched the first online map of their territory on Tuesday.

▻https://www.zilient.org/article/paraguays-first-digital-indigenous-map-aims-reduce-land-conflicts?cid=socia
#contre-cartographie #cartographie_critique #peuples_autochtones #cartographie #terres #territoire_ancestral #agriculture #conflits #forêts #déforestation

Mais je ne trouve pas la carte...

How indigenous nomadic pastoralists in Iran are using GIS maps to defend and conserve their territories
▻https://intercontinentalcry.org/indigenous-nomadic-pastoralists-iran-gis-maps-conserve

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These days, GIS digital maps are proving a really useful tool for Indigenous Peoples to delineate their own customary territories, which are often different from official maps. Many local communities are learning how to use the technology and working with experts in participatory mapping activities. Participatory GIS has turned into a sort of “counter mapping” enabling local communities to make their own maps and models, and using these for their own research, analysis, assertion of rights and resolution of conflicts over land. Such mapping exercises also motivate community members to keep on defending and conserving nature and their territories as they have done for thousands of years, in spite of the difficulties they encounter.

The Centre for Sustainable Development (CENESTA), a Civil Society Organization working in Iran and a founding member of IUCN, has been advocating for ICCAs for decades. This photo-essay captures CENESTA’s experience supporting Iranian Indigenous communities in mapping out their territories.

#pastoralisme #nomadisme #cartographie #territoire #Iran

Counter-Mapping Surveillance: A Critical Cartography of Mass Surveillance Technology After Snowden | van der Vlist | Surveillance & Society
▻http://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society/article/view/countermapping

Abstract

This article critically examines mass surveillance technology revealed by Snowden’s disclosures. It addresses that we do not only live in a society where surveillance is deeply inscribed but more urgently, that it is increasingly difficult to study surveillance when its technologies and practices are difficult to distinguish from everyday routines. Considerably, many of the technologies and systems utilised for surveillance purposes were not originally designed as proper surveillance technologies. Instead, they have effectively become surveillance technologies by being enrolled into a particular surveillant assemblage. Three contributions are made towards critical scholarship on surveillance, intelligence, and security. First, a novel empirical cartographic methodology is developed that employs the vocabularies of assemblages and actor–networks. Second, this methodology is applied to critically examine global mass surveillance according to Snowden. Multiple leaked data sources have been utilised to trace actors, their associations amongst each other, and to create several graphical maps and diagrams. These maps provide insights into actor types and dependence relations described in the original disclosed documents. Third, the analytical value of three ordering concepts as well as the logistics of surveillance are explored via notable actors and actor groups. In short, this contribution provides empirical cartographic methods, concepts, and analytical targets for critically examining surveillance technology and its particular compositions. It addresses challenges of resisting mass surveillance and some forms of data activism, and calls for the continuing proliferation of counter-maps to facilitate grounded critique, to raise awareness, and to gain a foothold for meaningful resistance against mass surveillance.

(article accessible)

▻http://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society/article/downloadSuppFile/countermapping/283
Fig. 1 Network diagram of the entire actor–network. Nodes represent distinct actors; edges are associations between those actors, based on traces found in the NSA/CSS Manual and ACLU’s NSA Documents database. Nodes: 240; edges: 378; type: directed graph; filter: none. Node ranking: by degree; colour-coding: by actor type; layout: ForceAtlas2 (Jacomy 2011; Jacomy et al. 2012).

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We understand the role of cartography as a tool of imperialism. However, in this edition of the Chronic, we ask: what if maps were made by Africans for their own use, to understand and make visible their own realities or imaginaries? How does it shift the perception we have of ourselves and how we make life on this continent? We don’t have an easy answer, nor will we find one alone. Together with Kwani? we’ve invited writers and artists to produce this new language, in words and images.

►http://www.chimurenga.co.za/product/the-chronic-new-cartographies-march-2015

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À Bornéo, des drones cartographiques contre l’accaparement des terres
►http://visionscarto.net/a-borneo-des-drones-cartographiques

Quand les cartes sont produites par des consultants privés et par des services de l’État qui privilégient un « développement » agro-industriel aveugle, les victimes sont les villageois qui se voient spoliés de leurs vergers et de leurs terres communes. Mais certains résistent, et parmi leurs armes figurent les photos aériennes prises par des drones qu’ils ont eux-mêmes construits. À Bornéo, partons à la découverte de deux initiatives de contre-cartographie. Tout d’abord, dans le Kalimantan, la partie (...)

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