Cartographic-story-telling, performance of way-finding and (e)motional mapping in the Cariri region, State of Ceará

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ID11127102
AuthorsJörn Seemann (0000-0002-7105-4335, Universidade Regional do Cariri, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume30
Issue2
Publication date2012-07-02
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueBoletim de Geografia (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0102-5198 • E-ISSN: 2176-4786
PublisherUniversidade Estadual de Maringa (PUBLISHER • BR)
DOI10.4025/bolgeogr.v30i2.12468
OpenAlexW2256062863
LanguageEN
References cited11

As a research topic, maps and mappings within a cultural perspective have become increasingly popular over the last two decades. However, studies on the authorship and human agency in mapmaking, and how mapmakers engage with place and space are still awaiting a deeper analysis. From this angle, maps can be understood as processes, as actions in motion and events in constant becoming, rather than as finished products or simple representations. This paper addresses these theoretical reflections through a case study on cartographic narratives, performance of mapping, and navigation. The partial reconstruction of the travel route of the nineteenth-century Brazilian botanist Francisco FreireAlemo through parts of Northeast Brazil is presented to show the (e)motional nature of mapping and its importance not only as a way of understanding landscapes, but also as an act of drawing out the mapmaker's own geographical self

Agency (philosophy) · Art · Art history · Cartography · Geography · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Perspective (graphical) · Social science · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · State (computer science) · Visual arts · Computer Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Philosophy · Religious Tourism and Spaces · Travel Writing and Literature

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