Checking in on Critical Cartography

Abstract

For many geographers and cartographers, the term "critical cartography" evokes a particular period of geographical discourse.What began with a series of appeals to consider the aporias and silences in maps, and to situate them within the cultures that produce and interpret them (Harley 1989), became the strong polemics of what's now referred to as the GIS wars (Schuurman 2000).Interpreting maps to show their social, political foundations using linguistic and discursive concepts undoubtedly is and has been a productive form of critical cartography, particularly with the inclusion of theoretical concepts beyond the limited English-language translations of Foucault available in the late 1980s (Rose-Redwood 2015).However, focusing on that period, those tools, and those sources limits our view of what critical cartography can be, and more significantly, what it can do.

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