MAPS

Question 1

What is cartography?

Answer 1

The practice of making maps

Question 2

What is critical cartography?

Answer 2

The study of the relationships between maps and power

Question 3

Maps as? PPIITT

Answer 3

Performative 
Propositions 
Inscriptions
Truths
Texts

Question 4

Why are maps performative?

Answer 4

They are a constant negotiation between realities as the landscape changes

Question 5

How are maps truths?

Answer 5

‘They represent the world as it really is with a known degree of precision’

Dodge 2006

Question 6

How are maps texts?

Answer 6

They can be ready, have contexts and use language to communicate concepts and ideas. This is shaped by politics, beliefs and culture

Hereford’s Mappa Mundi, 1300

Question 7

How are maps propositions?

Answer 7

They propose how we should see the world, regardless of reality

Military bases are hidden, Area 51

Question 8

How are maps inscriptions?

Answer 8

They are tools that draw conceptual power into the real world, with borders and claims

‘They are an inscription that does, or sometimes does not work in the world’ - Pickles 2004

South China Sea, 6 country claims currently