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michielvanmeeteren.bsky.social
The Scientific Committee of the BeNeLux Geography Conference has curated a first set of proposed sessions to kickstart our intellectual exchange. From countermapping and the governance of AI infrastructure, to bridging the natural and social perspectives within our discipline.
October 2, 2025 at 7:51 AM
carceralabolition.bsky.social
Countermapping the Carceral Security State: Beyond the Imperial Boomerang academic.oup.com/isq/article/...
Countermapping the Carceral Security State: Beyond the Imperial Boomerang
Abstract. As part of a burgeoning interest in analyses of the colonial roots of contemporary state practices, scholars in the field of International Relati
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September 30, 2025 at 1:34 PM
pact-costaction.bsky.social
🎨 Midday creativity! Small artistic projects including counter maps and the sounds of port remind us that energy transitions are also cultural transitions. Interdisciplinarity at its best. 💡

#CulturalHeritage #SustainablePorts #PACT #COST #CounterMapping #PortSound
September 26, 2025 at 12:39 PM
gregoryrupik.bsky.social
Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther's *When Maps Become the World* profoundly inspired my philosophical approach in my book, especially his notions of countermapping, pernicious reification, and contextual objectivity. I'm so grateful for his enthusiastic support of my project to Romanticize evolution! 🐋🌱
September 26, 2025 at 10:35 AM
uvahumanities.bsky.social
Kaarten kunnen mensen rechten teruggeven, weet ook UvA-promovendus Jochem Kootstra. Hij doet onderzoek naar ‘countermapping’: het maken van alternatieve kaarten die onderbelichte groepen helpen hun doelen te bereiken. www.uva.nl/shared-conte...
Countermapping: hoe nieuwe kaarten de wereld herschrijven
Afrika wil in juiste formaat op de wereldkaart, zo was onlangs te lezen op NOS.nl. Kaarten kunnen mensen rechten teruggeven, weet ook UvA-promovendus Jochem Kootstra. Hij doet onderzoek naar ‘counterm...
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September 17, 2025 at 10:53 AM
mecila.bsky.social
At Mecila, her project “Countermapping Lusofonia: Brazil, Cinema and the Black Atlantic” investigates how Afro-Brazilian film culture challenges the absence of Black voices and images in the Lusophone world and the Eurocentrism perpetuated by Portuguese agency in cultural production. (2/2)
August 20, 2025 at 1:03 PM
geema25.bsky.social
Blue CounterMapping😚
August 7, 2025 at 6:42 PM
christinahicks.bsky.social
3-year postdoc @lancasteruni.bsky.social w/ Dr's John Childs & Nicola Firth

Decolonising the Deep Seabed: Countermapping Territory, Heritage & Knowledge

Offering an alternative t0 mainstream approaches to understanding the political geography of the deep seabed

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Job Opportunity at Lancaster University: Senior Research Associate - Decolonising the Deep Seabed: Countermapping Territory, Heritage and Knowledge
Lancaster Environment Centre (LEC) is pleased to announce a Senior Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA) position as part of a Leverhulme Trust-funded project ‘Decolonising the Deep Seabed: Counterma...
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August 1, 2025 at 3:49 PM
tenuretracker.bsky.social
Lancaster University is hiring:
Senior Research Associate - Decolonising the Deep Seabed: Countermapping Territory, Heritage and Knowledge
July 29, 2025 at 5:03 AM
devgeogsrg.bsky.social
Senior Research Associate Position on "Decolonising the Deep Seabed: Countermapping Territory, Heritage and Knowledge" - hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at Lancaster University: Senior Research Associate - Decolonising the Deep Seabed: Countermapping Territory, Heritage and Knowledge
Lancaster Environment Centre (LEC) is pleased to announce a Senior Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA) position as part of a Leverhulme Trust-funded project ‘Decolonising the Deep Seabed: Counterma...
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July 22, 2025 at 12:34 PM
arl.org
📚 The Ends of Research sheds light on how researchers in remote regions navigate institutional upheaval. Through innovative techniques like transect and GIS countermapping, researchers preserve knowledge and adapt to changing funding landscapes.

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#ARLRepertoires
Repertoires: How Forest Research Outlives Its Institutions — Association of Research Libraries
A mature forest can take decades to regenerate after it is harvested for timber. But what happens when the human institutions charged with its management change course or even disappear...
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July 8, 2025 at 3:35 PM
zeichenmine.bsky.social
In this project, people have shared how they feel in the city during the heat. What they do to escape it, where it is particularly bad and what they wish for a more liveable Mainz. The interviews were anonymized and compiled in a brochure and a digital map.
#sciencecommunication #countermapping
Eine Karte von Mainz liegt auf Betonboden. marker in verschiedenen Farben liegen auf dem Boden. Sie sind orange, blau oder transparent und haben verschiedene Zahlen. Ein Handy liegt auf zwei Gehwegplatten. Darauf ist eine Karte mit verschiedenen Markierungen zu sehen. Eine aufgeschlagene Broschüre liegt auf Betonboden. In ihr sind in Blau, Orange oder Schwarz Texte und Bilder abgedruckt.
June 29, 2025 at 12:04 PM
kontinentalist.bsky.social
2) Mapping (and countermapping) is an important way to storytell

We prepared three activities, but found that people were most drawn to our map of Singapore’s 77 islands and surrounding regions.
A small crowd gathering around our maps. There was an impromptu discussion between a group of academics and Abang Jeffri, an islander and panelist who shared stories about the islands he lived in. One of the Kontinentalist team members assisting a participant to put stickers on the map. A note clipped on the activity panel, featuring a sketch of who seems to be the participant themselves, and a note that says "I'm a foreigner, nor Singaporean, nor Islander". This refers to one of the instructions we provided, which is to pick colour-coded stickers and papers based on their perceived identity: A mainland Singaporean, an Orang Laut or Orang Pulau or islander, a descendant of islanders, and others.
June 23, 2025 at 4:52 AM
terminalias.bsky.social
This terrain isn’t about countermapping or transcendence—it's about contesting the worldmaking nature of borders from within -through embodied, situated, and relational struggles by migrants and non-migrants alike. This is the worldmaking force of placemaking practices.
June 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
divyampersaud.com
countermapping 🤌🏾
June 13, 2025 at 6:10 PM
democracyatwork.bsky.social
Listen to @msafri.bsky.social speaking with @profwolff.bsky.social on #gentrification, #countermapping and #SolidarityCities on #EconomicUpdate! Hear the rest on our #democracyatwork @youtube channel here: tinyurl.com/5n9864cy
May 26, 2025 at 7:14 PM
wyman10.bsky.social
Map a-day-in May (a thirty-one cabinet display)
Phoebe Nahanni A Slavey-Dene geographer & cartographer who played a central role in the Dene Nation mapping project
For more info/links: #cartobibliography tinyurl.com/34hn54c3
#PhoebeNahanni #CounterMapping #DeneMapping #MapDayMay25 #WCWMC
Map a-day-in May (a thirty-one cabinet display) Phoebe Nahanni Phoebe Rose Nahanni was a Slavey-Dene geographer and cartographer. She played a central role in the Dene Nation mapping project, which constructed a map of how the Dene Nation actively used about 450,000 square miles of land. This information was one of the factors in the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry's recommendation not to construct a pipeline through the Mackenzie River Valley. Nahanni was also active in the social scientific study of arctic and subarctic communities, and is thought to have been the first Slavey-Dene woman to hold a master's degree. To prepare for the Berger Commission, the Dene conducted a comprehensive study. Phoebe Nahanni, led a team of twenty Dene researchers. Their first decision was to manage the research process themselves, choosing not to rely on external white experts. Using hardcopy maps and audiotapes, they interviewed 546 individuals about their hunting, trapping, and other livelihood practices on the land. They then brought the maps back to the communities for re-verification, ensuring greater accuracy and broadening the collaboration for the overall project. During each of the Hearings, a Dene field worker presented the maps, documenting the historical and current land use in the respective community. The evidence they provided to the Inquiry directly challenged the colonial narrative of terra nullius—the false belief that the land was uninhabited. As Nahanni stated: "The maps clearly demonstrate what we've always said before your legal institutions—that we've been here for countless generations; this is our land and our way of life. The proposed oil and gas pipeline routes and construction sites interfere with our land-based activities. The impacts of such intrusions not only disrupt our travel routes and trap lines but also harm the animals, fish, lakes, and environment that are integral to our way of life." (Phoebe Nahanni, 1977). Map a-day-in May (a thirty-one cabinet display) Phoebe Nahanni Map showing: Sahtu Dene and Metis Traditional Trail Network Text around the map states: TRADITIONAL TRAVEL The land itself is of particular importance in transmitting knowledge from one generation to the next. The Sahtu Dene and Métis landscape is known intimately to elders. Trails, used year-round, provide access to a vast harvesting region. The trails link thousands of place names, each with a story, sometimes many, bound to the place. Names and narratives convey knowledge, and in this way Sahtu Dene and Metis culture is tied directly to the landscape. The network of interconnecting trails provides access to a Sahtu land use area encompassing some 300,000 km. This map shows patterns of land use derived through the Sahtu Dene and Métis trails mapping project. The trails may be water routes or land routes or both depending on the season, and many extend beyond the Sahtu boundary to connect with other major routes of the north. While cutlines and winter roads have opened up further travel routes within the Sahtu, some traditional routes are still used for travel to and from settlements, hunting grounds and camps. When you put out these maps it brings back memories of long time ago. I remember one time we travelled to town walking, no dogs or skiddoo from Aubry Lake. We camped once. The next day we made it to the Hare Indian River. At that time there were no maps. There were people that were smart that made trail from Colville Lake to Fort Good Hope. (Anonymous, Dene Nation mapping project) Source: Kershaw, R., & Auld, J. (2005). The Sahtu atlas. Sahtu GIS Project. Map a-day-in May (a thirty-one cabinet display) Phoebe Nahanni A map titled: Denendeh Trails of our Ancestors. Map shows trails and is annotated with photo insets. Map a-day-in May (a thirty-one cabinet display) Phoebe Nahanni Caption reads: ENDURANCE "The stories I've picked up From the older men are really, really incredible. This long trip up here was done by Charles Yohin. He travelled with three or four families. They stayed at Rabbit Kettle. They met sone people from Tulita who were travelling through south Nahanni. They were hunting or trapping for marten. Rather than continuing on to Tulita on their way to North Nahanni, back to Tulita the men went back to Watson Lake with the families. Charles Yohin said he spent about ten years in the whole area." Phoebe Nahanni, Nahanni Butte, 1975
May 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
bplmaps.bsky.social
How important is a name really? 🤷🏽‍♀️

Map: Institute for Infinitely Small Things, The people's republic of Cambridge (2008)

#bpl #LMEC #maps #bostonmaps #localhistory #bostonhistory #bostonmuseum #thingstodoinboston #bostontourism #cambridge #countermapping
May 23, 2025 at 10:34 AM
wyman10.bsky.social
Map a-day-in May (a thirty-one cabinet display)
With the long weekend unfolding a selection of University of Alberta Mapping Projects
More info #cartobibliography tinyurl.com/y5cv3vuz #Cartography #Mapping #GIS #Indigenous #Geographies #CounterMapping #DesirePaths #LostRivers #MapDayMay25 #WCWMC
Map a-day-in May (a thirty-one cabinet display) A selection of University of Alberta Mapping Projects: Haines, Emily. (2024). Counter-Mapping the Lands and Material Heritage of Nineteenth-Century Métis in amiskwaciy-wâskahikan (Edmonton, Alberta) Using Historical Documents. A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts Department of Anthropology University of Alberta. [Thesis] Howse, Robin. (2020). pîtos-mâmitoneyihtamowin (reimagine) UAlberta (2020). Alternate perspectives on the University of Alberta North Campus. [Map] Luckert, Erika (2012). Drawings We Have Lived: Mapping Desire Lines in Edmonton. Constellations Vol. 4 Noi. 1 pp. 318-326. [Article] Martell, Kathryn A., Dammeyer, Henry. (2001) Lost creeks and wetlands of Edmonton. [Map] McMillan, Bethany. (2023). Conceptions of the Rocky Mountains: A Comparison of Peter Fidler and David Thompson and Their Mapping Strategies. A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in History. [Thesis]
May 20, 2025 at 12:49 AM
tomwestern.bsky.social
Our next anti-genocide university workshop is this afternoon – countermapping campus through layered histories of student-staff movements.
UCL Common Ground, 2-5pm
May 14, 2025 at 9:26 AM
wyman10.bsky.social
Map a-day-in May (a thirty-one cabinet display)
Louise E. Jefferson Represents the intersection of two neglected cartographies, Women and African Americans. More info/links: #cartobibliography tinyurl.com/34hn54c3 #LouiseJefferson #PictorialMaps #AfricanAmerican #CounterMapping #MapDayMay25 #WCWMC
Map a-day-in May (a thirty-one cabinet display) Louise E. Jefferson Louise Jefferson represents the intersection of two neglected cartographic cultures, women and African Americans, in the mid-twentieth century. Louise Jefferson’s journey through sexism and racism to become a leading member of the artistic and publishing scene gives visibility to the disadvantaged communities from which they emerged and maps this conversion. Their work as an artist, illustrator, photographer, and cartographer demonstrates that maps are more than the objects or things we have conventionally defined them to be. Rather, they are practices and representational images as well as systems of ordering social and spatial identity that connect and empower a people through time and space, and allow African American women to “talk back” against their oppression” From: Yessler, R., & Alderman, D. H. (2021). Art as “talking back”: Louise Jefferson’s life and legacy of counter-mapping. Cartographica, 56(2), 137-150–150. Map a-day-in May (a thirty-one cabinet display) Louise E. Jefferson A collection of maps from the David Rumsey Map Collection https://tinyurl.com/yeywn6sc Includes: (1945). Africa. (1945). Arica. A Friendship Map. (1946). Americans of negro lineage. (1943) Makers Of The U.S.A. (1948) China : a friendship map. (1944) Indians of the U.S.A. (1944) Southeast Asia and the Southwest Pacific. Map a-day-in May (a thirty-one cabinet display) Louise E. Jefferson Illustrations by Louise E. Jefferson. In: Jefferson, Louise. E. (1974). The decorative arts of Africa. Collins. Illustrations (b/w) show Africa's Topography, sketch of an individual hands raised standing atop Africa, a globe view with Africa shaded, and Chapter 5 titled Europe Discovers Africa: The colonial conquest with an illustration of the pyramids. Map a-day-in May (a thirty-one cabinet display) Louise E. Jefferson [portion] of a map showing the lower left edge and includes the title and a cartouche that includes plants, an elephant and a zebra. From: Jefferson, Louise E. (1945). Arica. A Friendship Map. Friendship Press, Inc. [David Rumsey Map Collection]. This is a pictorial map promoting peaceful relations with Africa and advocating for African self-determination, independence, and self-rule as the era of colonization approached its conclusion.
May 9, 2025 at 6:03 PM
misterhayes.bsky.social
For the past few weeks I have been working on a project counter-mapping queer men's use of public sexual environments - cottages and cruising gounds - between 1988 and 1993. Here's a blog post about it.

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#cottaging #cruising #queerhistory #countermapping #queerart
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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · I have finally submitted this project. Initially, I was going to use this Tumblr to try out pieces of writing to go with the project, but I found the writing didn't present itself…
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May 1, 2025 at 2:40 PM
tibg.bsky.social
📢March Issue of TIBG📢

The latest issue of TIBG brings together a collection on 'Mapping' curated by @stephenlegg11.bsky.social ahead of the 2024 RGS-IBG Annual Conference.

12 of the 17 papers are #OpenAccess - read them here ⬇️
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14755661... #geosky
A graphic showing the title page of Transactions on a read background with TIBG in large letters on the right hand page. On the left hand page are nine tiles with the names of papers in a Themed Intervention titled 'Mapping'. The papers are: 1) Mapping Geography Stephen Legg 2) The joy of maps James Cheshire 3) Making a Subjective Atlas of Palestine: On participative design and situated mapping Annelys de Vet 4) Mapping and countermapping dispossession in Palestine Hashem Abushama 5) Mapping as a collective and southern practice Gautam Bhan 6) Seeing culture from below: Counter-curating, counter-ethnography, counter-mapping Gavin Grindon & Duncan Hay 7) Mapping Black geographies Camilla Hawthorne 8) Mapping COVID-19 at home Georgina Endfield & Jacqueline Waldock 9) To save lives: Lessons of a pandemic cartographer John Hessler A graphic showing the title page of Transactions on a read background with TIBG in large letters on the right hand page. On the left hand page are two tiles in the Mapping collection and six tiles with standard articles, with the names of papers in the issue. 1) Digital twins and deep maps Rob Kitchin & Oliver Dawkins 2) Mapping collections Katherine Parker 3) Towards liminal balance: unpacking the UK's urban canal space Maarja Kaaristo, Dominic Medway, Steven Rhoden, Jamie Burton & Helen Bruce 4) Locked out? Navigating the geographies of precarity on Britain's waterways Agatha Herman & Richard Yarwood 5) Mobile Keynesianism: Linking policy mobility and state transformation in New Zealand: 1930-70 Russell Prince 6) Panic activism or crisis solidarity? Reworking crisis narratives in climate activism through the COVID-19 pandemic Sylvia Nissen & Raven Cretney 7) An economy of immunity: The racial-spatial lives of antibodies in the American blood plasma economy from 1960s prisons to COVID-19 Kelsey Johnson 8) Creative fictions: Incentive work and humanitarian labour in South Sudan Leonie Newhouse
April 29, 2025 at 9:26 AM
bigbrotherteej.bsky.social
I also learned a lot from my colleagues in the UP Department of Geography and from other organizations about countermapping, the ethics of mapping, and conducting fieldwork. :))
April 13, 2025 at 8:46 AM
manuelaz.bsky.social
Dear Schland, am Montag geb ich in Koblenz einen Workshop zu "Countermapping care and collectivity: macro,
micro und co." am Methodenfestival der @hfgg.bsky.social. Es geht drum, sozial-ökologische Reproduktion und Beziehungsgeflechte situiert anders zu denken. 2 Plätze frei! hfgg.de/events/event...
Spring School 2025 | Hochschule für Gesellschaftsgestaltung
In einer spannenden Woche voller fundierter Workshops werden wir lernen, transdisziplinär zu forschen und transformative Veränderungen zu bewirken.
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April 2, 2025 at 11:21 AM