Deconstructing the Conservancy Map
Hxaro , N!ore , and Rhizomes in the Kalahari
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14701059 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Saskia Vermeylen (0000-0001-7284-9028, Lancaster Environment Centre / Lancaster University / UK, corresponding author), Gemma Davies (0000-0002-7420-2479, Lancaster Environment Centre / Lancaster University / UK), Dan Van Der Horst (0000-0002-9454-9664, University of Birmingham) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 121-134 |
| Publication date | 2012-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cartographica The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0317-7173 • E-ISSN: 1911-9925 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/carto.47.2.121 |
| OpenAlex | W1980858921 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 40 |
To stand a chance of reclaiming their pre-colonial rights, indigenous peoples often have to deploy the tools and logic of the colonial state. Through a case study of community conservancy in Namibia, we demonstrate that the same holds for the practice of participatory mapping. We engage with J.B. Harley's deconstruction of maps and use our ethnographic data to reveal the silences and lies inherent in the rigid cartographic representations of conservancy maps. The indigenous peoples in our case study are the San, who have been marginalized and displaced from their land. We highlight how these people, once perceived by the colonialists as “rootless,” do have strong relational connections across the landscape. We argue that the practice of counter-mapping, along with its critique, is incomplete without full attention to the silences of the map and the relational rhizomes (across boundaries) of the peoples involved
Archaeology · Citizen journalism · Colonialism · Deconstruction (building · Ethnography · Geography · Indigenous · Political science · Sociology · State (computer science · Anthropology · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Computer Science · Geographic Information Systems Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Ecology
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| Unique citing works | 14 |
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| Citations per year | 1,08 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2025 (13) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |