vernacular mapping -and the ethics of what comes next

joe gerlachschool of geography // oxford university

SoTM 2010 // Girona

Gerlach, J. (2010) Vernacular mapping and the ethics of what comes next. Cartographica. 45; 3.

doi: 10.3138/carto.45.3.165

// 1. vernacular mapping // 2. ethics

// vernacular mapping

JB Harley // Denis Wood

“More indigenous territory has been claimed by maps than by guns. This assertion has its corollary: more indigenous territory can be reclaimed and defended by maps than by guns”.

// Bernard Nietschmann (1995)

vernacular mapping as...

// mundane// shifting spaces// co-fabricated“space times of everyday life co-fabricated between

human and nonhuman practices and pathways”

// Sarah Whatmore (2003)

// ethics

...are cartographers concerned at all with howmaps could answer the Socratic question,

‘how should one live’?

// JB Harley (1993)

“Maps are never fully formed and their work is never complete. Maps are transitory and fleeting, being contingent, relational and context-dependent; they are always mappings; spatial practices enacted to solve relational problems”

// Kitchin & Dodge (2007)

// Lima Mapping Weekend// 21-22 August