Open AccessLines, contours and legends
Author(s) -
Joe Gerlach
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
progress in human geography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.283
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1477-0288
pISSN - 0309-1325
DOI - 10.1177/0309132513490594
Subject(s) - vernacular , indigenous , legend , politics , vocabulary , sociology , everyday life , cartography , geography , epistemology , linguistics , political science , philosophy , law , archaeology , biology , ecology
Harnessing the cartographic attributes of line, contour and legend, this paper generates a conceptual vocabulary attentive to the proliferation in everyday mapping. By developing theoretical work that questions the representational certitude of cartography, the paper argues that attention needs to be focused on the non-representational vectors of mapping. This is to establish the grounds for future empirical research into quotidian cartographies and their politics. Instead of categorizing these variegated, mapping practices as either 'counter' or 'indigenous' movements, the notion of ‘vernacular mapping’ is proposed as one way in which geographers might begin to encounter the vibrant micropolitics of contemporary cartography.
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