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Introduction
Paul Schweizer is a geographer and popular educator. As part of kollektiv orangotango he co-conducts collective art processes in public space, co-edited ‘Beyond Molotovs – a Visual Handbook of Anti-Authoritarian Strategies’ and ‘This Is Not an Atlas – a Global Collection of Counter-Cartographies’. He currently researches methods of militant mapping with social movements in Euro-pa and Brazil.
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Authoritarianism operates on a visceral level rather than relying on arguments. How can we counter authoritarian affects? This publication brings together more than 50 first-hand accounts of anti-authoritarian movements, activists, artists, and scholars from around the world, focusing on the sensuous and emotional dimension of their strategies. Fro...
Karten erzählen Geschichten und formen unser räumliches Verständnis von Welt. Sowohl das Lesen als auch das Erstellen von Karten bedeutet, die Welt auf eine bestimmte Weise zu erzeugen, zu beschreiben und wahrzunehmen. Dahingehend hinterfragen kritische Kartograph*innen die Macht der Karte und eignen sich die Praxis der Kartographie an. In über 20...
Karten erzählen Geschichten und formen unser räumliches Verständnis von Welt. Sowohl das Lesen als auch das Erstellen von Karten bedeutet, die Welt auf eine bestimmte Weise zu erzeugen, zu beschreiben und wahrzunehmen. Dahingehend hinterfragen kritische Kartograph*innen die Macht der Karte und eignen sich die Praxis der Kartographie an. In über 20...
Neste artigo apresentamos algumas práticas desenvolvidas pelo Kollektiv Orangotango, um círculo de geógrafos críticos e amigos, em coevolução desde os anos 2000. Além das intervenções artísticas no espaço público, a cartografia crítica é parte crucial de nosso trabalho, temos co-conduzido vários mapeamentos coletivos, publicado materiais educaciona...
Karten erzählen Geschichten und formen unser räumliches Verständnis von Welt. Sowohl das Lesen als auch das Erstellen von Karten bedeutet, die Welt auf eine bestimmte Weise zu erzeugen, zu beschreiben und wahrzunehmen. Dahingehend hinterfragen kritische Kartograph*innen die Macht der Karte und eignen sich die Praxis der Kartographie an. In über 20...
Karten erzählen Geschichten und formen unser räumliches Verständnis von Welt. Sowohl das Lesen als auch das Erstellen von Karten bedeutet, die Welt auf eine bestimmte Weise zu erzeugen, zu beschreiben und wahrzunehmen. Dahingehend hinterfragen kritische Kartograph*innen die Macht der Karte und eignen sich die Praxis der Kartographie an. In über 20...
Depicting the world, territory, and geopolitical realities involves a high degree of interpretation and imagination. It is never neutral. Cartography originated in ancient times to represent the world and to enable circulation, communication, and economic exchange. Today, IT companies are a driving force in this field and change our view of the wor...
Décolonizer l´atlas ? Éditer une collection mondiale de contre-cartographies: écueils et rencontres.
Contre-carographier le monde. Dirigé par Diane Bracco & Lucie Genay. France: Pulim - Collection Espaces Humains.
Severín Halder
Pablo Mansilla
Borís Michel
Paul Schweizer
Laurenz Virchow
Im Unterschied zu angelsächsischen und lateinamerikanischen Debatten findet die partizipative Aktionsforschung (PAF) in
der Humangeographie im deutschsprachigen Raum bisher nur wenig Beachtung. Dabei adressiert PAF mehrere Kernanliegen transformativer Lern- und Forschungskontexte und verspricht daher, wertvolle Impulse in diesen Bereichen zu setze...
Depicting the world, territory, and geopolitical realities involves a high degree of interpretation and imagination. It is never neutral. Cartography originated in ancient times to represent the world and to enable circulation, communication, and economic exchange. Today, IT companies are a driving force in this field and change our view of the wor...
„2020 – ein Atlas“ präsentiert in sechs Karten die visuellen Ergebnisse des Seminars "Kritische Kartographie" im WiSe 20/21 (Insitut für Geographie/Universität Hamburg). Begleittexte ermöglichen Einblicke in die Kartierungsprozesse, aus denen sie entstanden sind. Dieses vielfältige Kartensammelsurium blickt kritisch auf Emotionen, Körper, Straßenna...
Nel 2020, in occasione di un talk sulle nostre pratiche di mappatura19 ci siamo chiestə come « diventare corpi d’acqua».20 Intendiamo la nostra pratica, creata dal dialogo multiscalare e, recentemente, dall’impegno in campagne di solidarietà legate alla pandemia Covid-19, una forma di « mappatura con l’acqua »: una idrocartografia. Pur vivendo in c...
This article deals with the relationship between political activism and critical research. We introduce the methodological approaches of action research and militant investigation as well as discussions on activist or action-oriented geography, which have received little attention in the field of German-language geography so far. We supplement thes...
As part of kollektiv orangotango+, we co-edited an international collection of activist, academic, and artistic “counter- mappings.” Because counter-mapping is historically closely connected with, and indebted to, anti-colonial struggles and decolonial politics, we hoped to locate our work within the wider debates about decolonial cartography and t...
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...
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...
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In recent years, Brazil has been discussed as an emergent or booming economy. São Paulo plays a central role in these development narratives, being presented as the country’s economic powerhouse and an island of modernity within Brazil and Latin America. Policies aiming to consolidate São Paulo’s global or world city-ness deepen inequalities and ex...
In this article we discuss pixação as one of the many manifestations of
Brazilian popular culture in the specific context of the metropolis at
the passage from the 20th to the 21st century. Conceptualizing pixo as
popular culture we call in mind some aspects of the criminalization of
some expressions of popular culture in the early 20th century. In...
This paper asks to what extent urban agriculture projects based on principles of Solidarity Economics are in a position to develop new economic forms based on solidarity—rather than competition—thereby posing an alternative model to neo-liberal capitalism. It seeks to understand how solidarity economies function concretely, what motivations, intere...
