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Cartography: performative, participatory, political

Department of Geosciences, Georgia State University, PO Box 4105, Atlanta, GA 30302, USA

^* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: jcrampton{at}gsu.edu.

	Abstract

This report examines the ways in which mapping is performative, participatory and political. Performativity has received increasing attention from scholars, and cartography is no exception. Interest has shifted from the map as object to mapping as practice. Performativity is a cultural, social and political activity; maps as protest and commentary. The internet both facilitates and shapes popular political activism, but scholars have been slow to grasp amateur political mappings, although analysis of political deployments of mapping in state, territorial and imperial projects remains rich. Finally, some authors suggest that cartography be understood as existence (becoming) rather than essence (fixed ontology).

First published on May 21, 2009, doi:10.1177/0309132508105000

Progress in Human Geography 2009;33:840.

A more recent version of this article appeared on December 1, 2009


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