Dilemmas of Counter-Mapping Community Resources in Tanzania
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4820488 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dorothy L Hodgson (0000-0003-0605-6745, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey), Richard A Schroeder (Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 79-100 |
| Publication date | 2002-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Development and Change (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-155X • E-ISSN: 1467-7660 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-7660.00241 |
| OpenAlex | W2127885575 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 113 |
| References cited | 18 |
Recent work has celebrated the political potential of 'counter-mapping', that is, mapping against dominant power structures, to further seemingly progressive goals. This article briefly reviews the counter-mapping literature, and compares four counter-mapping projects from Maasai areas in Tanzania to explore some potential pitfalls in such efforts. The cases, which involve community-based initiatives led by a church-based NGO, ecotourism companies, the Tanzanian National Parks Authority, and grassroots pastoralist rights advocacy groups, illustrate the broad range of activities grouped under the heading of counter-mapping. They also present a series of political dilemmas that are typical of many counter-mapping efforts: conflicts inherent in conservation efforts involving territorialization, privatization, integration and indigenization; problems associated with the theory and practice of 'community-level' political engagement; the need to combine mapping efforts with broader legal and political strategies; and critical questions involving the agency of 'external' actors such as conservation and development donors, the state and private business interests
Agency (philosophy) · Grassroots · Maasai · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Social science · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Tanzania · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact · Law · Public Administration · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
Biocultural Diversity and Indigenous Ways of Knowing
Mobile Applications to Secure Tenure in Rural Tanzania
The paradox of boundaries in Coast Salish territories
Common Property and Power
Mapping the Unmappable?
Constructing Community Through Maps? Power and Praxis in Community Mapping∗
Challenging the Master Narrative on Large-Scale Social Estates
From Exile to Homeland Return
Drivers of Archaeological Looting in the Nile Delta
Localizing Heritage
The Right not to Drown
(Re) Commoning Through Counter-Mapping, the Case of Mida Creek Area, Kilifi County, Kenya
What is carbon? Conceptualising carbon and capabilities in the context of community sequestration projects in the global South
An Australian agri-industrial landscape sublime
How do stakeholders engage with critical cartography in planning? Analysis of a decision-making process in marine governance
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Counting and Counter-mapping
A Political Ecology of Sovereignty in Practice and on the Map
This Is Not a Biodiversity Hotspot”
Environmental Justice and the Market
New Zealand’s “arc of influence”
An Argument for Action Research-Inspired Participatory Mapping
Is VGI participation? From vernal pools to video games
ICT-driven projects for land governance in Kenya
Cartography
Cultural ecology
Counter-mapping as praxis
Territoriality by Conservation in the Selous–Niassa Corridor in Tanzania
Indirect Recognition. Frontiers and Territorialization around Mount Halimun-Salak National Park, Indonesia
Reseeing Chinatown cartographic response and neighborhood reinvention
Mapping the Unmappable
Participatory Spatial Knowledge Management Tools
Cartography
Political geography - political geographies of globalization III
Empathic Projections
Collaborating in the field, working for change
O mapeas o te mapean
The Politics of Property in Land
Counter-modelling the Plantationocene
Two-dimensional maps in multi-dimensional worlds
Defining the forest, defending the forest
Creating ecotourism territories
Political ecology in the key of policy
The dominant/marginal lives of young Tanzanians
Walking the line
Sovereignty, Territory, and the Mapping of Mobility
Where would we be without them? Knowledge, space and power in indigenous politics
Mapping Deception
The making of ethnic territories
Tx’otx’ and la defensa del territorio
From Making Automated Decision Making Visible to Mapping the Unknowable Human
Aquatic Identities, Fluid Economies
Decolonizing cartography and ontological conflict
Rethinking territory and property in indigenous land claims
Artificial intelligence studies in cartography
Performing land-based knowledge through modes of sonic mapping and storytelling
Participatory Mapping and Participatory GIS for Historical and Archaeological Landscape Studies
Putting Workers on the Map
Rewiring for a GIS/2
Maps and Symbolic Power
Deconstructing the Conservancy Map
The Importance of Context
Every Bus Stop a Tomb
The politics of pixels
Maps as Coasian coordination tools
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Critical GIS as a tool for social transformation
Ripping up the Map
Constructing Connectivity
Of Intractable Conflicts and Participatory GIS Applications
Can participatory mapping activate spatial and political practices? Mapping popular resistance and dwelling practices in Bogotá eastern hills
Resisting Legibility
Data justice
Territorios de la movilidad en disputa
Where to draw the line
Feminist Participatory Methods to Center Women in African and International Research
Biofuels and the politics of mapmaking
The Protected Area as Enclave
Public Participatory GIS
All Strings Attached
Wildlife Management in Tanzania
Cultivating Crisis
Cultural diversity and conservation
Rethinking One Health
Inclusions, erasures and emergences in an indigenous landscape
Remapping the Border
Challenging the Contours
Mapping Economic Diversity in the First World
Debating the Place of Political Ecology in the First World
Contesting the Boundaries of International Justice
Partitioned Nature, Privileged Knowledge
Mapping Common Futures
The Care and Feeding of Power Structures
Third Nature
Precarious Alliances
Introduction
The map is not the territory
Once Intrepid Warriors
Maps, Metaphors, and Meanings
Maps, Metaphors, and Meanings
The Enemy Is Us
Geographies of environmental intervention in Africa
Geographies of environmental intervention in Africa
Women, men and trees
Local Challenges to Global Agendas
A Map that Roared and an Original Atlas
Making Space for Community Resource Management in Fisheries
Representing communities
Whose Woods Are These? Counter-Mapping Forest Territories in Kalimantan, Indonesia
A Thousand Years of East Africa
Mountain Farmers
Once Intrepid Warriors
Mountain Farmers
Critical interventions
| Unique citing works | 113 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,71 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2026 (25) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 109 |