Journal articles: 'Alternative cartography'

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Seemann, Jorn. "Does cartographic education need an epistemology? Traditions and transitions in Brazilian school cartography." Perspectiva 40, no. 4 (November 10, 2022): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-795x.2022.e83989.

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Knowledge philosophies have been a constant theme in cartography for the last three decades and have resulted in a lively debate on a variety of approaches (modern, postmodern post-processual and post-representational) in the field. These discussions have not had a significant impact on theories and methodologies in cartographic education. Teaching about and with maps embraces well-established ideas, but is reticent to accept alternative modes. This article seeks to analyze cartographic views and epistemologies in the context of school cartography in Brazil in order to point out traditions, transitions and trends that consolidate easy-to-follow principles, but may curb a diversity of approaches in the subfield at the same time. I argue that teaching with maps requires a broader debate about adjustments and innovations beyond the taken-for-granted standards. For this purpose, I will briefly discuss epistemologies in the context of scientific cartography and then, based on the existent substantial bibliography on cartographic education in Brazil, outline specific traditions that have laid the foundations for today’s school cartography in the country. Obstacles and challenges for the development and improvement in teaching are identified, with the intention to rethink common practices and experiment alternative or complementary forms and modes in the classroom. The revision and reformulation of specific principles, concepts and themes can strengthen an inclusive, diversified and pluralistic vision in cartographic education that can serve as a useful tool for citizenship cartography in Brazil.

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Alves, Cristiano Nunes. "Buscando alternativas cartográficas: uma metodologia de subversão do sistema de informação geográfica." RUA 22, no. 1 (June 16, 2016): 108. http://dx.doi.org/10.20396/rua.v22i1.8646072.

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Parte da construção de uma geografia renovada, amparada numa metodologia de pesquisa maleável, indaga sobre as possibilidades de subverter as funções técnicas do sistema de informação geográfica (SIG), utilizando-se de suas bases cartográficas, todavia, buscando uma produção alternativa ao sugestionado por meio de softwares de mapeamento. Para tanto, a proposta metodológica aqui apresentada, conduz a uma produção cartográfica subsidiada por programas gratuitamente disponíveis e de fácil manipulação, tais quais: Google Earth, editores de slides e editores de figuras. Procura-se, desse modo, conferir autonomia a geógrafos e demais pesquisadores, buscando contribuir para a discussão acerca da produção de cartografias mais flexíveis, menos ancoradas nas certezas que apenas o espaço euclidiano pode abrigar.Abstract: Part of building a renewed geography, supported in a flexible methodology research, we ask for possibilities to subvert the technical functions of geographic information system (GIS), using their cartographic databases, although, looking for an alternative way to the cartographic production that is usually induced by the standard of mapping software’s. Due this, the methodology introduced in this article comes to subsidize a cartographic production by the use of programs that have free access and are easy to handle, as such: Google Earth, editor of figures and editor of slides. Therewith we intend empower geographers and other researchers expecting that this proposal contribute to the discussion about producing a flexible cartography, less rooted in the certainty that only the Euclidean space can shelter.Keywords: medium-technical-scientific-informational; cartography; alternative methodology; geographic information system.

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Caquard, Sébastien, and Claire Dormann. "Humorous Maps: Explorations of an Alternative Cartography." Cartography and Geographic Information Science 35, no. 1 (January 2008): 51–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1559/152304008783475670.

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Alavez, José. "Mapping Intimate Geographies of Grief and Loss." Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization 57, no. 4 (December 1, 2022): 270–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/cart-2021-0024.

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Cartography has been pivotal in making visible the number of people who die in the context of migration. In this article, the author explores the potential of mapping to study and develop another dimension of the geography of death within exile: the more intimate dimensions of post-mortem geographies as experienced by those who survive a loved one. Inspired by Avril Maddrell’s call for developing new cartographic representations to share difficult emotions and memories associated with death, the author mobilized two alternative mapping practices—inductive visualization and sensibility mapping—to chart the emotional and intimate geographies embedded in the stories of two migrants who lost a close friend with whom they lived while in exile. The mapping process that led the author to represent these intimate post-mortem geographies brought me to reflect on the importance of developing alternative cartographic forms of expression that focus on the experiential and the emotional, rather than on the factual and the measurable. By steering this cartographic shift away from the fact of death as the end of a journey to death as a lingering event in the life of those who survive, the author proposes a cartography of grief and mourning that aims to contribute to individual and collective remembering.

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Fairbairn, David. "Contemporary challenges in cartographic education." Abstracts of the ICA 1 (July 15, 2019): 1–3. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/ica-abs-1-72-2019.

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Abstract. This paper is focussed on the work and remit of the ICA’s Commission on Education and Training (CET), presenting a reflection by the retiring chair of the current issues which affect the work of Commission members and all engaged in current education and training of students of cartography around the world. The nature and development of cartography as an academic and professional discipline has been discussed through many presentations, both conceptual and applied, and in various arenas and communities, over the past half century. As cartographic practice became standardised in the 20th century, so educational and instructional materials describing and analysing the discipline conveyed a relatively uniform message, ensuring that the audience of learners were educated and trained positively to an agreed agenda. In effect, a subtle, as yet unwritten, ‘Body of Knowledge’ was developed and elucidated in educational materials, notably textbooks on cartography, in the last few decades of the last century (Kessler, 2018). It was during these years, however, that cartography developed as a discipline far beyond its initial roots as a map-making technology. The technology of map-making certainly changed completely, and a host of other aspects were incorporated, from metrical analysis of historical map documents to gender-oriented investigations of mapping activity; from the integration and importance of cartography in contemporary geospatial data handling to the role of volunteer map-making; from the psychology of map interaction and decision making to the mathematics of map projections and multi-dimensional data representation; and many, many other activities and issues which must be included in educational programmes in cartography. It is the establishment, adoption and maintenance of a Body of Knowledge (BoK) which is one of the main challenges (this paper presents 11, in bold below) and, if successfully met, it can assist in ensuring that cartographic education and training develops as required in the next few decades (Fairbairn, 2017). The further challenges highlighted in this paper can form the basis for further investigation by the CET in the future. This listing of issues is informed by a number of contemporary changes in technology, by closer integration of cartography with other geospatial sciences, by research achievements and investigations in the field, by advances in educational praxis, by demands on cartography by a host of other activities, and by consequent recognition of the discipline by learned and professional bodies. One of the main purposes in developing a Body of Knowledge is to encompass and facilitate curriculum design. As the widening scope of cartography will be reflected in the developing BoK (most notably in cartography’s contribution to GIS), curriculum design must be flexible and innovative enough to cope with more numerous and wider, though focussed and integrated, topics. The admirable, existing BoK in Geographic Information Science and Technology, already being reviewed and enhanced, but omitting many specific cartographic principles, is a possible framework for incorporating these. Alternatively there are sound arguments for a uniquely cartographic BoK, and this enterprise is certainly an ICA-approved pursuit. Also within the BoK, the theoretical foundations for the study of cartography must be elucidated and moved from the research agenda to the educational curriculum. A revised Research Agenda developed under ICA auspices and a focussed Body of Knowledge are synergistic documents, with interdependent content in one directing content in the other. Such documents may be perceived by many to be overly conceptual, un-related to everyday mapping activity. In terms of cartographic production in the past 50 years, we have moved far from the standardised methods mentioned earlier, applied by every commercial and governmental mapping organisation. The activity of map-making has adopted a host of alternative methods, and artefacts, data-sets and representations are created and ‘mashed-up’ by an increasingly wide range of individuals and groups with highly variable experiences, expertise and understanding of cartographic procedures. In terms of ‘organised’ cartography in multi-employee companies, government and non-government agencies, academic and research groups, and associated industrial and environmental companies, a further challenge is understanding what employers want from graduates in cartography and GIS. The delivery of education in cartography is an academic activity, but it must be done in a manner which demonstrates relevance to the community which relies on the skills of an educated workforce. In some cases the cartographic community, notably its educators, may have to direct their attention outside the classroom and convince the fragmenting industry that cartographic principles are vital for effective management and communication of information, and that the products of cartographic education (the graduates from educational programmes) are serious and informed potential employees with much to offer a wide range of human activity. Such recognition by those outside the academy can be encouraged by seeking and receiving professional accreditation from awarding bodies such as industry associations, learned societies, educational authorities and public bodies. The landscape of professional recognition in the disciplines of cartography and GIS is highly varied, geographically, institutionally, legally, and pedagogically. The fluid nature of the disciplines, and in particular their fuzzy distinction from a host of other geomatics, geospatial, engineering, environmental, and social activities means that cartographic education must acknowledge and address its interaction with education in many other sciences. Linking cartographic education and its principles with related education in other closely related geo-disciplines is particularly important. Common messages must be presented stressing cartography’s importance and relevance. At the possible wider levels mentioned above, experiences and lessons learned from teaching cartography and GIS to a broad range of non-specialists must be documented: cartographic principles must be shown to be important and relevant to all those engaged in handling maps and mapping data. Stressing the importance of such principles is especially vital when education is done at a distance: the Commission has long been interested in those activities which develop on-line educational resources and look at innovative ways of delivering education widely to large audiences outside formal educational establishments. We already have reports on mature and effective resources in the form of MOOCs, distance learning courses, and online training modules (e.g. Robinson and Nelson, 2015). Such methods of delivery for cartographic education have proven popular and efficient: educators must ensure continued relevance, update, and diligence, in managing these activities. In addition to content development and assessment frameworks, it is technical requirements which are often perceived as major blocks to effective use of in-line educational resources. Technical support requirements are critical in every form of cartographic education: in the past replication of map reproduction labs was prohibitive for most educational establishments; today it is the acquisition of a full range of software which mitigates against full exposure to the varied range of cartographic and geospatial data handling activity as practised in the ‘real world’. The generosity of some software providers is widely acknowledged in educational institutions, and many of the software products are generic enough to be able to demonstrate the required cartographic principles in a non-partisan manner. However, in many cases employers are seeking specific training skills in particular packages and this can be difficult to provide within a formal educational programme. Recent additions to the ‘wish-list’ of employers, however, have been related to abilities in coding and computer programming. Luckily, the most commonly sought skill is ability to write code in Python or Javascript. These are open source, rather than a commercial, products, and hence can be acquired by any educational establishment. The use of open source software and datasets in geospatial and cartographic education is becoming increasingly important, and their effective integration with traditional (and indeed contemporary) curricula in cartographic education is clearly a further challenge. This paper has outlined a number of challenges facing cartographic education. Like the wider discipline, education in cartography is delivered by capable and dedicated individuals, each with interests in the development of the discipline in an increasingly diverse and varied educational arena. The Commission is intent on addressing the challenges outlined, promoting effective and high-quality cartographic education.

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Alvarado, Johan Lorraine. "Cartography of Sound." Columbia Journal of Asia 1, no. 2 (December 9, 2022): 63–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.52214/cja.v1i2.10002.

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This paper embarks on the odyssey of queer diasporic Pilipinxs, a journey that has hitherto been neglected in English literary studies. Set against the backdrop of multiple imperialisms and ongoing migration, this project attends to a complex array of issues discussed in contemporary queer Pilipinx American poetry, examining bodies in transit, bodies in translation, and bodies in transformation. In close-reading Kay Ulanday Barrett’s More Than Organs and Aldrin Valdez’s ESL, or You Weren’t Here, my aim is to explore how queer Pilipinx American embodiment can be uprooted and mapped within a poetic landscape that dissolves boundaries between languages, voices, genders, temporalities, and worlds. These collections elucidate not only alternative ways of mourning and healing but also the breadth of queer, diasporic imagination that transcends neat categorization or stringent conclusions. This thesis proposes that queer Pilipinx American poetry can help us negotiate our vexed legacies in order to arrive at new, expansive possibilities of being, becoming, and belonging.

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Lacerda, Sofia. "Usos potenciais da terra na antiguidade como alternativa às representações cartográficas dos solos existentes em Portugal. O caso da civitas Igaeditanorum (Idanha-a-Velha, Portugal)." Estudos do Quaternário / Quaternary Studies, no. 19 (January 31, 2019): 83–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.30893/eq.v0i19.181.

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Os Mapas de Uso Potencial da Terra são representações cartográficas que nos permitem refletir sobre os usos prováveis da terra na antiguidade. Não se devem confundir com a cartografia tradicional de solos, uma vez que, ao contrário desta, os Mapas de Uso Potencial da Terra são criados de forma a conter um valor histórico. Embora este tipo de cartografia permita a criação de diferentes cenários produtivos, enquadrados num determinado período, não significa que seja representativo da realidade, mas sim de uma possibilidade. Neste artigo apresentamos o caso concreto do Mapa de Usos Potenciais da Terra criado para parte do território da civitas Igaeditanorum (Idanha-a-Velha, Portugal).Ao mesmo tempo que pretendemos encorajar a criação e uso deste tipo de cartografia, consideramos importante mostrar os perigos que incorremos ao utilizarmos na investigação arqueológica a cartografia de solos atualmente disponível em Portugal. Land evaluation in antiquity as an alternative to Portuguese soil representation. The case of civitas Igaeditanorum (Idanha-a-Velha, Portugal)Potential Land Use Maps are cartographic representations that allow us to think about the most probable land uses in the past. These maps shouldn’t be mistaken with the traditional soil cartography since those are created from an historical prespective. Although this kind of cartography allows the creation of different exploitation scenarios, integrated on a specific historical period, it should not be taken as a representative reality, but as a possibility. In this paper we present the case of civitas Igaeditanorum (Idanha-a-Velha, Portugal) Potential Land Use Map.At the same time, we intend to encourage the creation and use of these maps, as well as warn about the flaws that exist when we apply the traditional soil cartography available in Portugal. Keywords: GIS, Cartography, Rural Landscape, Agrarian Archaeology

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Rizzi, Luigi. "Notes on cartography and further explanation." Probus 25, no. 1 (May 2, 2013): 197–226. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/probus-2013-0010.

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Abstract This article addresses one particular aspect of the cartographic enterprise, the cartographic study of the left periphery of the clause, the system of criteria, and the “syntacticisation” of scope-discourse semantics that rich and detailed syntactic maps make possible. I will compare this theoretical option with the conceivable alternative, the “pragmaticization” of a radically impoverished syntax, and will discuss some simple kinds of empirical evidence bearing on the choice between these alternative perspectives. I will then turn to the issue of whether the properties of the functional sequence (ordering, cooccurrence restrictions) are amenable to “further explanations” in terms of more basic principles constraining linguistic computations. I will argue that the search for deeper explanations is an integral part of the cartographic endeavour: it presupposes the establishment of reliable maps, and nourishes the pursuit of further cartographic questions. I will conclude by illustrating the issue of further explanation by comparing certain properties of topicalization in English and Italian, in particular the fact that DP topics are fundamentally unique in English, while they can be freely reiterated in Italian. This pattern can be plausibly traced back to intervention locality, once certain independent properties distinguishing Italian and English topicalization are taken into account.

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Denil, Mark. "The Search for a Radical Cartography." Cartographic Perspectives, no. 68 (March 1, 2011): 7–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.14714/cp68.6.

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A number of recent map publications have incorporated terms like Radical, Counter,and Alternative in their titles, but it is unclear exactly what a radical (or counter, oralternative) cartography would be. This paper postulates some characteristics such acartography (termed radical for convenience) might possess, and explores analogousphenomena in other fields, in search of a paradigm or model for recognizingcartographic radicality.The term mapicity is proposed to instantiate that quality which all maps mustpossess in order to be recognized and employed as maps, and the term radicality isintroduced to identify a quality that would set a radical cartography apart from onethat was not radical.Three collections of maps that are identified by their authors or publishers as radicalare examined for traces of radicality as defined in this paper. In addition, the earlyTwentieth Century painting movement Analytic Cubism (approximately 1907–1914) is forwarded as a model or paradigm for radicality.

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MacDonald, Shauna M. "Composing an Autoethnographic Cartography of Blue: Becoming a Pharologist in and of the Academy." Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies 18, no. 2 (October 12, 2016): 149–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1532708616673654.

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In this autoethnographic cartography, I argue for the need for alternative embodied maps for academic life. Using my experiences as a budding pharologist (someone who studies lighthouses), I bear witness to my cultural experience of academia through a collaged autoethnography of mapping and composing space. I bring together autoethnography, theories of cartography, as well as my experiences researching lighthouses as sites of public memory performance, to demonstrate that there is a need in the culture of academia for real discussions about anxiety and similar issues—among faculty and students—and that autoethnography, cartography, and pharology provide an entry into such a discussion. In fragmented sections designed to highlight the ways experiences intertwine, I move through four phases of feeling “blue”: the deep blue of confusing academic anxiety and depression; the search for a methodology to lead me to a brighter, more pleasant kind of blue; the research journey that moved me forward; and the “blue sky” blue it led me to. Through autoethnographic writing and stylistic experimentation, I map my experience of journeying through academic anxiety, providing an example of working toward alternative mappings, compositions, and visions of academic life.

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Cirolini, Angélica, Roberto Cassol, and Alexandre Felipe Bruch. "ATLAS ELETRÔNICO MUNICIPAL COMO ALTERNATIVA DIDÁTICA PARA A CARTOGRAFIA ESCOLAR." Revista Brasileira de Educação em Geografia 11, no. 21 (May 21, 2021): 05–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.46789/edugeo.v11i21.825.

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A alfabetização cartográfica é fundamental para o ensino de Geografia, uma vez que, para ler o espaço, o estudante necessita interpretar mapas, imagens e outras representações geográficas. Nos últimos anos, foram desenvolvidos muitos materiais didáticos envolvendo atividades lúdicas que despertam a curiosidade e o interesse dos alunos. Pensando na Cartografia Escolar, os Atlas Eletrônicos surgem com uma abordagem inovadora e maior interação entre os conteúdos trabalhados e a realidade local. O aluno é instigado a realizar uma análise crítica do seu espaço vivido, ora construindo-o, ora desconstruindo-o, através da observação dos elementos socioambientais, fazendo com que no aluno seja despertado maior interesse pelo estudo do espaço geográfico. Nesta perspectiva, teve-se o objetivo de abordar a importância do estudo do espaço local na perspectiva da cartografia escolar a partir da elaboração de um Atlas Eletrônico e Socioeconômico. Para isso, realizou-se um estudo de caso no município de Restinga Sêca, RS. Metodologicamente, considerou-se como unidade de análise espacial o município constituído por seus setores censitários. O Atlas possui uma interação parcial com o usuário, possibilitando a manipulação de um conjunto de mapas com temas predefinidos, e é composto por recursos de multimídia, com textos, imagens e animações. Desta forma, verificou-se maior interatividade no ensino da Geografia, articulando o conteúdo proposto com o espaço vivido pelo aluno. Palavras-chave Cartografia Escolar, Atlas Eletrônico, Ensino de Geografia Municipal electronic atlas as a didactic alternative for school cartography Abstract Cartographic literacy is fundamental for the teaching of geography, since to read the space the student needs to interpret maps, images and other geographical representations. In recent years, many teaching materials have been developed involving recreational activities that arouse students' curiosity and interest. Thinking about School Cartography, Electronic Atlas come up with an innovative approach and greater interaction between the contents worked and the local reality. The student is encouraged to perform a critical analysis of his lived space, sometimes building it, sometimes deconstructing it through the observation of socioenvironmental elements, making the student arouse greater interest in the study of geographical space. In this perspective, the objective was to address the importance of studying the local space in the perspective of school cartography from the elaboration of an Electronic and Socioeconomic Atlas, for which a case study was carried out in the municipality of Restinga Sêca, RS. Methodologically, the municipality constituted by its census sectors was considered as a unit of spatial analysis. The Atlas has a partial interaction with the user, allowing the manipulation of a set of maps with predefined themes, and is supported by multimedia resources with texts, images and animations. Thus, there was greater interactivity in the teaching of Geography, articulating the proposed content with the space experienced by the student. Keywords School Cartography, Electronic Atlas, Geography teaching

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Marković, Nevena. "How to read ʽEmotional Cartographiesʼ: Rethinking (Carto)graphic Representation and Semantics." Abstracts of the ICA 1 (July 15, 2019): 1–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/ica-abs-1-239-2019.

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Abstract. The emotions, in its broadest sense, have been the subject of anthropological, sociological, and cultural studies among geographers. The “mapping impulse” has been also an essential element and a major force in many disciplines and fields.Historically, the mapping has imposed not only physical but also imagined boundaries, imposing “the power-knowledge” relations on the landscape and its communities. At the same time, looking at the history of cartography, the visual vocabulary of conventional maps has been used to interpret various facets of the human psyche, for instance in the case of the late Renaissance “sentimental cartography”.The concept of 'Emotional Geographies' has been adopted by geographers as 'a concern with the spatiality and temporality of emotions' (Davidson J, 2007). Hence, emotions have been acknowledged not as individualized, but as intersubjective – social and cultural.Although the geospatial technologies have acquired more humanized characteristics since the mid 1990‘s (Pickles, 1995), such as mapping feelings (Pocock, D. 1984) and emotional responses to space (Gartner, 2012), the cartography has been facing challenges regarding of data collection and representation of emotions (Griffin & McQuoid, 2012). Therefore, little cartographic efforts have been made in that direction due to the challenges in data collection and representation of emotions. (Griffin &amp; McQuoid, 2012).As such, “turned” not only by the affective topographic or non-spatial elements, but also the critical theory, “Emotional Mapping”, as an additional concept in cartography, goes beyond the georeferenced emotional states in a certain geographic area. This reflexive methodology combines technology, science and art, theory and practice, and, as Nold argues, enables “Reflection-In-Action”, and new social relations. But, the way in which it creates a tangible vision of places as a dense multiplicity of personal sensations, which we are not normally aware of, is its most significant aspect (Nold, 2009). Further to new psychology-based approaches to affect and emotion, and how maps make us feel (Griffin &amp; McQuoid, 2012), alternative approaches from cartography, social theory and art, demonstrate how maps are meaningful. In such scholarship environment, the co-creation of “Emotional Mapping” has a potential by drawing on “Emotional Cartography” techniques, and exploring the ways in which emotional responses might be sensed, captured, represented, analysed, and used in various cross-disciplinary projects.

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Abdul Basir, B., and A. R. Abdul Rasam. "EVALUATING POTENTIAL FREE SOFTWARE FOR WEB-BASED MULTIMEDIA CARTOGRAPHY." ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XLII-4/W16 (September 30, 2019): 3–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-xlii-4-w16-3-2019.

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Abstract. Most universities students depend on the use of proprietary software as it has prominent capabilities to meet their needs. Although the proprietary software such as Adobe Flash Professional has a high capability to create a web-based multimedia system, budget constraints become the main reason why free software will be used as an alternative to proprietary software. This study is carried out to evaluate the potential free software for developing a web-based multimedia in cartography projects specifically for students in developing countries. Wix and Weebly are the two software that has been potentially explored among the ten selected software in the market. The current commercial software (Adobe Flash Professional) was also applied as a benchmark to the selected free software. This three software were individually utilised to design and develop a web-based multimedia of e-sport system and their technical capabilities were comparatively assessed according to elements of a common multimedia, website and other mapping assessment aspects. The finding showed that each of the software has unique characteristics and has successfully generated the end products according to the standard web-based multimedia title. Although these free software could produce a better looking, more flexible and time saving mapping platform than the end product created from the Adobe Flash Professional, they have limitation in creating menu function. This exploratory and cases study has also demonstrated that the alternative free software has potentials to replace the current proprietary software, while Wix is the best among the two selected software.

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Silva, Carolyne De Castro Carvalho, Maurício Ragagnin Pimentel, and João Vitor Cepinho dos Santos. "International tourism spatial distribution: an alternative cartography of World Tourism Organization (Unwto) Data." Applied Tourism 4, no. 3 (December 10, 2019): 47. http://dx.doi.org/10.14210/at.v4n3.p47-54.

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Treutlein, Barbara, Ozgun Gokce, Stephen R. Quake, and Thomas C. Südhof. "Cartography of neurexin alternative splicing mapped by single-molecule long-read mRNA sequencing." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111, no. 13 (March 17, 2014): E1291—E1299. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1403244111.

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Dorling, D. "Human Cartography: When it is Good to Map." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 30, no. 2 (February 1998): 277–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a300277.

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In recent years quantitative geography and cartography have been devalued within human geography. This process has often been led by writers who have questioned the extent to which researchers who analyse numbers about people ignore other ways of studying society. Often examples of the ‘unsympathetic’ mapping of people's lives or the conspiratorial creation of particular statistical social landscapes are given as reasons to avoid quantitative research. In this paper I concentrate on some visual approaches to understanding society, in particular, the view of ‘human cartography’. I argue, through a series of examples, that there is much more to mapping society than simply reinforcing an image of the status quo. There are many people involved in alternative mapping, few of whom would see themselves as geographers. Perhaps human geography should consider why mapping is now so popular, how mapping is changing, and the part geography could play in redrawing the world, before dismissing mapping as a means to understanding?

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Kolesnikov, Anatoly S., and Cholpon E. Alieva. "From comparative studies to hermeneutic cartography of world philosophy." Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies 38, no. 4 (2022): 473–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2022.403.

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The radical change in the status of non-Western philosophical traditions was the trigger for the development of the methodology for studying philosophy between cultures, the revision of the nature of philosophy itself, which is a matter of metaphilosophy. Hermeneutic works appear on the fundamental fabric of philosophical ideas — basic concepts, their relationship to other ways of thinking, considering their potential and alternative productive lines. Thus, the history of comparative philosophy, through its stages, is formed into a single scheme of complementary philosophical activity and a single comprehensive metaphilosophical project. It is revealed through an “archival” approach (exploring single philosophical traditions in parallel), “equivalent” (comparing the existing traditions in the context of analogies and contrasts), and “problem solving” (using many traditions to provide philosophical solutions), and through a comprehensive hermeneutic project of “cartographic” concepts and their possibilities. This constitutes a theory of philosophy that draws on multiple perspectives of the interconnected traditions of East and West, implicitly participating in mapping the underlying eidetic structure on which philosophy does its work, and outlining conceptual possibilities around any idea. There is a need to study the ability of philosophy to form a broader hermeneutic understanding of the field of concept, giving rise to each philosophical problem, comprehended in their strengths and weaknesses and in connection with alternative configurations — under traditions, conditions, periods and cultures A view of global philosophy is formed, which brings us back to the old idea that philosophy stays above pragmatic goals, it takes on the eidetic fabric of ideas of the world — past, present, possible — as an object of a special kind of hermeneutic understanding, including applied problems in a broader speculative frame, that is, cleaned up through a comparison of radically different approaches. It is here, in philosophy as a study of the “structure of ideas themselves”, that we will see a multicultural philosophy proving its indispensability.

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LI, Qingben. "Marginocentric Beijing: Multicultural Cartography and Alternative Modernity in The Last Days of Old Beijing." Cultura 14, no. 1 (November 1, 2017): 19–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.3726/cul.2017.01.03.

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Manta, Adina. "Fluxus Spaces as Alternative Cultural Spaces. A social cartography of the urban cultural scenery." International Review of Social Research 6, no. 2 (May 1, 2016): 80–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/irsr-2016-0011.

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Abstract There is a growing research interest in cultural spaces and their urban regeneration potential. Discussions about these spaces can be found in the literature under concepts such as: art spaces (Grodach, 2011), cultural spaces (Alexander, 2003), creative spaces (Becker et al, 2009), cultural laboratories, free spaces (Polleta, 1999), yet little research examines them from a dynamic perspective which integrates approaches from different disciplines. Through the methodological lens of bricolage and by mixing methods from mental geography, psychology and sociology, this study explores the alternative cultural spaces in terms of its pluralism, managing to identify a new conceptual framework, the fluxus space. Fluxus spaces are cultural spaces situated at the intersection of public-private, old-new, informal-formal, legal-illegal expressions, playing an important role in artistic development and in the urban and community regeneration processes.

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Padróón, Ricardo. "Mapping Plus Ultra: Cartography, Space, and Hispanic Modernity." Representations 79, no. 1 (2002): 28–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/rep.2002.79.1.28.

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THE HISTORY OF CARTOGRAPHY in the early modern period has been tied in particular ways to the emergence of both imperialism and modernity. At the center of this argument lie the gridded scale maps that Europeans learned to make in the wake of their rediscovery of Ptolemy's Geography. These new maps supported the emergence of abstract space as a centerpiece of a new spatiality - a spatiality that in turn supported, in both theory and practice, the reterritorialization of the extra-European world for European ends. My paper interrogates this argument by examining Spanish attempts to map the Americas during the years 1492 to 1580. It identifies a cartographic culture steeped in late medieval figures of space, one that suggests continuity rather than rupture between the Middle Ages and the origins of European imperialism. Many Spanish mapmakers were engaged with some of the most sophisticated problems posed by the new, Ptolemaic cartography.These specialists, however, represented only a small minority of Spanish mapmakers. Although the abstract spatiality that informed their practice proved to be the emerging cultural trend, this spatiality was not hegemonic in early modern Spanish culture as a whole. Both philological and cartographic evidence drawn from outside the circle of specialists suggests that an alternative spatiality was also at play, one that was rooted in the itineraries of travel rather than the planar extensions of geometry.This linear spatiality had its roots in late medieval travel narrative and so-called way-finding maps. It is this spatiality that is most common in Spanish attempts to figure the wider world. This argument should not be understood as an essay in Hispanic particularity. Spain functions as a test-case here, and no claim is made that its linear spatiality is unique to Hispanic culture. What may be unique to Spain is the persistence of this spatiality beyond the year 1580, when the cartographic revolution took root much more deeply in northern than in southern Europe. Nonetheless, its near-ubiquity in the first ninety years of Spanish Americana suggests that the association we have made among abstract spatiality, modernity, and imperialism has been misplaced. Although it may be genuine, it must be understood as an attempt to rationalize empire after the fact, not as a cultural prop of an original imperial impulse.

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Abdo, Míriam Péres, and Ricardo Henrique Palhares. "Turismo e desenvolvimento econômico: a importância da cartografia turística para o município de Cordisburgo – MG / Tourism and economic development: the importance of tourism cartography for the municipality of Cordisburgo - MG." Caderno de Geografia 26, no. 1 (December 1, 2016): 169. http://dx.doi.org/10.5752/p.2318-2962.2016v26nesp1p169.

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A importância do turismo atualmente é evidente por tratar-se de alternativa para diversificar a economia, gerar empregos e melhorar a qualidade de vida dos moradores locais. Cordisburgo apresenta um discreto crescimento na atividade turística, demandando uma maior divulgação e capacitação de recursos humanos, possibilitando um maior desenvolvimento econômico, através dos vários segmentos da atividade turística. O objetivo deste estudo é promover a divulgação e a informação dos atrativos turísticos do patrimônio cultural, natural e da infraestrutura do município, para turistas e visitantes, utilizando como instrumento de apoio a cartografia turística. A elaboração da pesquisa consistiu em três etapas, sendo a primeira uma pesquisa documental e bibliográfica com levantamento dos aspectos físicos e atrativos naturais e culturais de Cordisburgo; na segunda etapa foram realizados trabalhos de campo para a identificação, coleta de coordenadas geográficas, e a última consistindo na elaboração do mapeamento turístico. Foi realizado um levantamento dos atrativos turísticos e da infraestrutura local, que resultaram na elaboração de produtos cartográficos, possibilitando o desenvolvimento e planejamento das atividades turísticas. Palavras-chave: Turismo. Desenvolvimento econômico. Cartografia turística. Cordisburgo. Minas Gerais. AbstractNowadays, tourism is taking on increasing importance as an alternative in economy diversification, generating jobs and improving the quality of life of local residents. Cordisburgo, which presents a limited growth, demands more intense efforts in spread and in training of human resources, in order to allow greater economic development, through the various segments of the tourist activity. This study aims to promote the broadening and information about the tourist attractions, the cultural and natural heritage, and on the municipal’s infrastructure, for tourists and visitors, making of the tourist cartographya fundamental tool to support it. This work consisted of three stages, being the first a literature review, characterized by the study of physical, natural and cultural attractions of Cordisburgo; meanwhile the second counts on an intense fieldwork, needed for the georeferencing of the tourist attractions, and, the third one, allowed the elaboration of the tourist cartography. A survey about tourist attractions and local infrastructure has been carried out, resulting in the elaboration of cartographic products, and enabling the development and planning of tourist activities. This work enabled the elaboration of Cordisburgo’s tourist cartography, providing an important tool for the implementation of touristic activities and, consequently, of the local economy. <pre>Keywords: Tourism. Economic development. Touristcartography. Cordisburgo. Minas Gerais.</pre>

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Starky, Thomas. "The Greenwich Meridian of Literature and the „Peripheries” of World Literature: Lu Xun’s Alternative Cartography." Tekstualia 2, no. 65 (September 13, 2021): 41–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0015.2748.

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The article discusses Pascale Casanova’s mapping of world literature according to a division into center and peripheries, focusing on her idea of the Greenwich Meridian of literature as a spatial and temporal measure of the world’s literary production. The related idea of literary consecration of peripheral writers is explained. The possibility of an alternative cartography that emphasizes literary transfers via translations between peripheries is analyzed on the basis of the famous modern Chinese writer Lu Xun’s theoretical and translation output. His practice of translating peripheral writers, often carried out second-hand via German editions, potentially challenges popular contemporary mappings of literary space such as those developed by P. Casanova and F. Moretti.

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Hayman, Eleanor, Mark Wedge, and Colleen James. "A Deep Chart (the Aqua-Face of Deep Mapping)." International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing 11, no. 1 (March 2017): 86–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ijhac.2017.0180.

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This paper showcases a counter-mapping project with the Tlingit and Tagish peoples of the circumpolar north. Engaging critically with the evolving theory and practice of deep mapping we reveal how collaborative water research designed to provide a framework for indigenous water legislation is expressed visually on a Google Earth platform. This aquatic counter-map, or as we call it, a deep chart, not only empowers the Tlingit and Tagish, but reclaims and revitalises critical cultural values, whilst simultaneously preserving linguistic and cultural memory in a digital form. More broadly, the deep chart is currently being brought into global water ethic debates as a visual ethno-cartographic example of an alternative relationship humans might have with water, paving the way for a new water consciousness. This is in direct contrast to current, dominant and sometimes destructive global water governance and water management models and practices. We showcase a participatory and aqua-centric deep charting paradigm that is evolving through Geographics Information Science (GIS) platforms in collaboration with the CTFN (Tlingit and Tagish) community and government. This research challenges the contemporary cartography of the dominant Anglo-American valuing of water. It also presents an alternative water vision that we argue can shift ‘terra-centric’ thinking towards ‘aqua-centric’ thinking. It further provides a blueprint for informing global water ethics debates.

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Biswas, Amrita. "Tracing Kolkata's cinephilic encounters: An analysis of alternative cinema in the city." Studies in South Asian Film & Media 10, no. 2 (December 1, 2019): 113–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/safm_00009_1.

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Abstract This article attempts to delineate the cartography of alternative cinematic productions in the region of Kolkata, which, being a nodal juncture that shapes the cultural milieu of Bengal, offers the technological and cultural infrastructures and the scope for cinephilic engagement crucial to the production of non-mainstream cinemas. To explore the gradual development of independent and amateur films in Kolkata, this article emphasizes the cinephilic tradition of the city that not only triggered cinematic movements (such as the film society movement and the Super-8 movement) but also ushered in the institution of film festivals in the region. Despite the mutations due to technological shifts, both film societies (in altered forms) and film festivals occupy central positions in the contemporary city's cinephilic culture. This article analyses the cinephilic legacies of the film society and the Super-8 movements that have historically fostered the contemporary cinephilic ecology of Kolkata, spurring peripheral media products.

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Munshi, Debashish, and David McKie. "Toward a New Cartography of Intercultural communication: Mapping Bias, Business, and Diversity." Business Communication Quarterly 64, no. 3 (September 2001): 9–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/108056990106400302.

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Courses in intercultural communication often put non-Western students at a dis advantage. In developing a course with a majority of non-Western participants at The University of Waikato, we adapted critical pedagogy to address the Western biases in the texts and approaches of intercultural communication. We selected both mainstream and alternative readings that allowed students to connect the field's neo-colonial business present with its colonialist past, to question the ethics and efficacy of an often skewed territorialisation of knowledge; and to redress tra ditional distortions by introducing perspectives from a range of critical and post colonial theorists. The readings were reinforced by student presentations of their own experiences crossing cultural borders. These experiences were then assessed in class, so that we didn't rely on the simulated experiences recorded in the conven tional texts.

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Wirz-Ridolfi, Andreas. "The History of Ear Acupuncture and Ear Cartography: Why Precise Mapping of Auricular Points Is Important." Medical Acupuncture 31, no. 3 (June 2019): 145–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/acu.2019.1349.

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Manganas, Nicholas. "A Europe of stories: Queer cartography and the grammar of hope." Journal of European Studies 52, no. 1 (February 15, 2022): 54–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00472441211072616.

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In January 2019, 30 leading European intellectuals, including Bernard-Henri Lévy and Orhan Pamuk, pronounced that ‘the idea of Europe is in peril’. Their voices added to a general sense from all corners of the European continent that the liberal narratives that have sustained the European Union integration project are under attack. Is it true, as Pamuk suggested, that Europe no longer makes us dream? What would it take to reactivate Europe’s ability to inspire? Aligned with Sudeep Dasgupta and Mireille Rosello’s approach of queering European culture, I imagine the possibilities that might emerge if we reenergise Queer and Europe with their original radical potential. In my reading of Panos H. Koutras’ film Xenia, I ask the following: what happens if we imbue Queer Europe with a grammar of hope instead of a grammar of hopelessness? I posit that Xenia queers the space between the European centre and periphery in its celebration of ‘diva citizenship’ and in so doing, the film reconfigures a Europe in the present continuous rather than the past and future tenses. Such a reconfiguration widens the scope to imagine new cartographies that map European culture in alternative frameworks. A Europe of Stories, I suggest, emerges in the space that this new cartography opens up.

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Tierra, Alfonso, and Ricardo Romero. "Planes coordinates transformation between PSAD56 to SIRGAS using a Multilayer Artificial Neural Network." Geodesy and Cartography 63, no. 2 (December 1, 2014): 199–209. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/geocart-2014-0014.

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Abstract Prior any satellite technology developments, the geodetic networks of a country were realized from a topocentric datum, and hence the respective cartography was performed. With availability of Global Navigation Satellite Systems-GNSS, cartography needs to be updated and referenced to a geocentric datum to be compatible with this technology. Cartography in Ecuador has been performed using the PSAD56 (Provisional South American Datum 1956) systems, nevertheless it’s necessary to have inside the system SIRGAS (SIstema de Referencia Geocéntrico para las AmericaS). This transformation between PSAD56 to SIRGAS use seven transformation parameters calculated with the method Helmert. These parameters, in case of Ecuador are compatible for scales of 1:25 000 or less, that does not satisfy the requirements on applications for major scales. In this study, the technique of neural networks is demonstrated as an alternative for improving the processing of UTM planes coordinates E, N (East, North) from PSAD56 to SIRGAS. Therefore, from the coordinates E, N, of the two systems, four transformation parameters were calculated (two of translation, one of rotation, and one scale difference) using the technique bidimensional transformation. Additionally, the same coordinates were used to training Multilayer Artificial Neural Network -MANN, in which the inputs are the coordinates E, N in PSAD56 and output are the coordinates E, N in SIRGAS. Both the two-dimensional transformation and ANN were used as control points to determine the differences between the mentioned methods. The results imply that, the coordinates transformation obtained with the artificial neural network multilayer trained have been improving the results that the bidimensional transformation, and compatible to scales 1:5000.

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Matthiessen, Christian M. I. M. "Modeling context and register: the long-term project of registerial cartography." Letras, no. 50 (October 27, 2015): 15. http://dx.doi.org/10.5902/2176148520205.

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This paper presents the outlines of a long-term project concerned with the modelling of context and register along the lines originally drawn by M.A.K. Halliday and Ruqaiya Hasan in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) — thus with “register” in its original sense of a functional variety of language, i.e. the meanings at risk in a given type of context. The topic of this project can be characterized as register cartography. Section 1 presents the background to work on the modelling of context and register, noting different uses in SFL of the term “register” locating the notion of register as functional variation in terms of the two semiotic dimensions of the hierarchy of stratification and the cline of instantiation. Section 2 sets out alternative models of context and register, identifying the key semiotic dimensions involved in these models. It then compares and contrasts the models. Section 3 adds to this account of work on context and register by summarizing work that has been done in computational linguistics informed by SFL — important work that has sometimes been overlooked by researchers concerned mainly with manual discourse analysis. Based on the background sketched in Sections 1 through 3, Section 4 then reports on the long-term project of registerial cartography, giving a general account with examples of findings such as differentiation of registers in terms of relative text frequency of terms in certain major systems. Section 5 focusses on one aspect of the long-term project — viz. the description of different fields of activity: eight primary fields of activity, each differentiated into more delicate subtypes — illustrated by means of variation in the deployment of pictorial resources.

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Ullrich, Beate, Yuri A. Ushkaryov, and Thomas C. Südhof. "Cartography of neurexins: More than 1000 isoforms generated by alternative splicing and expressed in distinct subsets of neurons." Neuron 14, no. 3 (March 1995): 497–507. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0896-6273(95)90306-2.

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Roces-Díaz, José V., Carlos Cabo, Covadonga Prendes, Celestino Ordoñez, and Cristina Santín. "Automatic Delineation of Forest Patches in Highly Fragmented Landscapes Using Coloured Point Clouds." Forests 11, no. 2 (February 11, 2020): 198. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/f11020198.

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Accurate mapping of landscape features is key for natural resources management and planning. For this purpose, the use of high-resolution remote sensing data has become widespread and is increasingly freely available. However, mapping some target features, such as small forest patches, is still a challenge. Standard, easily replicable, and automatic methodologies to delineate such features are still missing. A common alternative to automated methods is manual delineation, but this is often too time and resource intensive. We developed a simple and automatic method from freely available aerial light detection and ranging (LiDAR) and aerial ortho-images that provide accurate land use mapping and overcome some of the aforementioned limitations. The input for the algorithm is a coloured point cloud, where multispectral information from the ortho-images is associated to each LiDAR point. From this, four-class segmentation and mapping were performed based on vegetation indices and the ground-elevation of the points. We tested the method in four areas in the north-western Iberian Peninsula and compared the results with existent cartography. The completeness and correctness of our algorithm ranging between 78% and 99% in most cases, and it allows for the delineation of very small patches that were previously underrepresented in the reference cartography.

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Lucchesi, Annita. "-hóhta’hané: Mapping Genocide & Restorative Justice in Native America." Proceedings of the ICA 1 (May 16, 2018): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/ica-proc-1-71-2018.

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This thesis explores critical decolonial cartography as a possible language for communicating and better understanding complex, intergenerational experiences of genocide and colonialism among Native American peoples. Utilizing a self-reflexive methodology, this work makes interventions in Native American and indigenous studies, comparative genocide studies, historiography, and geography to argue for more expansive languages with which to grapple with Native experiences of genocide. In so doing, this paper also asserts the need for indigenous narrative self-determination, development of decolonial epistemologies and praxes on genocide, and languages for violence that are specifically designed to facilitate dialogue on healing. For that reason, this work not only positions cartography and maps as a particularly useful language for understanding indigenous experiences of genocide, but documents the development of this language, with the intent of supporting and guiding others in creating alternative languages that best fit their nation, community, family, and selves. Finally, the larger aim of this work is to make the case for languages on genocide that heal, rather than re-traumatize, and give a more holistic understanding of the ways in which genocide ‘takes place’ spatially and temporally, with the hope of creating a larger, more inclusive, less violent space for imagining and crafting restorative justice.

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Borowski, Łukasz, and Piotr Banasik. "The conversion of heights of the benchmarks of the detailed vertical reference network into the PL-EVRF2007-NH frame." Reports on Geodesy and Geoinformatics 109, no. 1 (January 17, 2020): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/rgg-2020-0001.

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AbstractThe paper describes the problem of conversion of heights to the European Vertical Reference Frame 2007 for Poland (PL-EVRF2007-NH). The subject of the study is height data, and especially the detailed vertical reference network. The aim of the article is to present an alternative method of conversion to the one recommended by the Polish Head Office of Geodesy and Cartography. The proposed approach is characterised by a low implementation cost while maintaining the required accuracy.The publication is illustrated by the case of Kętrzyn district (in the north-east part of Poland). The local reference network was converted from Kronstad’60 to PL-EVRF2007-NH in 2017.

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Reznik, Yuriy M. "From Philosophy over cultures towards Intercultural philosophy? (Reflection on “Intercultural philosophy: origins, methodology, problematics, prospects” by M.T. Stepanyants)." Civilization studies review 4, no. 2 (2022): 88–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.21146/2713-1483-2022-4-2-88-100.

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The article presents a review of the book by M.T. Stepanyants “Intercultural Philosophy: origins, methodology, problems, prospects” [1]. It discusses the problems of intercultural philosophy, i.e. its status, principles and rules, as well as the possibilities of intercultural cognition, including the criteria of environmental friendliness and fairness. Interculturality is considered as an alternative to the policy of multiculturalism and cultural universalism with its Western-centrist logic. And the intercultural approach is analyzed as a new cartography of philosophy. At the same time, the author makes a number of assumptions about countering Western dominance in Russian philosophy and the need to strengthen its ideological sovereignty.

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Azimjon, S., P. K. Gupta, and R. S. G. S. Sukhmani. "Comparative Study of Algorithms for Automated Generalization of Linear Objects." ISPRS Annals of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences II-8 (November 27, 2014): 159–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprsannals-ii-8-159-2014.

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Automated generalization, rooted from conventional cartography, has become an increasing concern in both geographic information system (GIS) and mapping fields. All geographic phenomenon and the processes are bound to the scale, as it is impossible for human being to observe the Earth and the processes in it without decreasing its scale. To get optimal results, cartographers and map-making agencies develop set of rules and constraints, however these rules are under consideration and topic for many researches up until recent days. Reducing map generating time and giving objectivity is possible by developing automated map generalization algorithms (McMaster and Shea, 1988). Modification of the scale traditionally is a manual process, which requires knowledge of the expert cartographer, and it depends on the experience of the user, which makes the process very subjective as every user may generate different map with same requirements. However, automating generalization based on the cartographic rules and constrains can give consistent result. Also, developing automated system for map generation is the demand of this rapid changing world. The research that we have conveyed considers only generalization of the roads, as it is one of the indispensable parts of a map. Dehradun city, Uttarakhand state of India was selected as a study area. The study carried out comparative study of the generalization software sets, operations and algorithms available currently, also considers advantages and drawbacks of the existing software used worldwide. Research concludes with the development of road network generalization tool and with the final generalized road map of the study area, which explores the use of open source python programming language and attempts to compare different road network generalization algorithms. Thus, the paper discusses the alternative solutions for automated generalization of linear objects using GIS-technologies. Research made on automated of road network generalization, which is summarized in this paper, was conducted in IIRS, Dehradun, India.

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Gatti, Carlo. "Policing the poor through space: The fil rouge from criminal cartography to geospatial predictive policing." Oñati Socio-Legal Series 12, no. 6 (December 1, 2022): 1733–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1360.

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Recent years have witnessed an explosion of interest in predictive policing, with a clear opposition emerging between supporters and critics of its implementation. While critical accounts conventionally centre on opacities and operational asymmetries of the algorithmic construct (biased training, feedback loop, etc.), I argue that a different critique is first needed. Focussing on place-based techniques, I maintain that contemporary predictive mapping basically perpetuates the political and epistemic dictates which have historically framed the conceptualisation of crime in relation to space. Through a review of sources spanning from the Cartographic School to current predictive policing literature, I identify two main conceptual axes which operationalise this heritage: first, an explanatory framework of crime that has never detached from the socio-economic deficit archetype; and secondly, an ontologisation of crime alternative to biologicist positivism, nonetheless integral to the etiologic paradigm. Therefore, without first disputing these ideological bottlenecks, no initiative towards a transparent use of predictive policing is plausible, neither does a sharp distinction between place-based and person-based predictions seem tenable.

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Wiedemann, Felix. "Der doppelte Orient Zur völkischen Orientromantik des Ludwig Ferdinand Clauß." Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte 61, no. 1 (2009): 1–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157007309787376000.

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AbstractOne of the main topics of the völkisch racial scientist Ludwig Ferdinand Clauß was the racial cartography of the Orient. Based on older discussions in anti-Semitic literature, Clauß constructed a racially divided – double – Orient and made a sharp distinction between Arabs and Jews. His depiction largely follows patterns of ascription from Orientalist as well as anti-Semitic discourses. By doing so he draws attention to structural overlaps and differences between Orientalism and anti-Semitism: a romanticized Arabic Orient served as an antipole to a “Nordic” Europe, and as such was finally able to advance to a positive alternative. The Jewish Orient, on the other hand, embodied for Clauß a threatening ambivalence and contrariety, which from the very beginning precluded romanticization and identification.

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Gartner, Georg. "Towards a Research Agenda for Increasing Trust in Maps and Their Trustworthiness." Kartografija i geoinformacije 21 (January 3, 2023): 48–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.32909/kg.21.si.4.

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In this paper a proposal is presented on how cartographers can ensure and/or enhance the trustworthiness of maps. Maps, like all other means of communication, are a result of many decisions. Many of those decisions allow for several options. Default, clear or good practices, guidelines or recommendations do not always exist for which option to choose. It is rather a characteristic of cartography that individual decisions can be made, especially on data preparation, selection, and design aspects.Because every map is a result of many decisions, trust in maps depends on those decisions being reasonable, not questioned, transparently accessible or underpinned by reliable decision makers (reliable in terms of their record as an institution, because of their reputation, because of their competence).The advent of easy-to-use map making software and data handling instruments put some of those decisions in the hands of "everyone", as well as in the hands of many who might have an interest in using maps as instruments of communicating a specific agenda.This is like other means of communication and has led to a rising discussion on "fake news", "fake media" and "fake maps", thus ultimately how we can trust the communicated information and how we can distinguish "fake" from "trustworthy" maps.Therefore, in this paper a proposal is presented on how cartographers can ensure and/or enhance the trustworthiness of maps. This is done by introducing two concepts of "going deep", allowing for transparency of cartographic decisions and "going wide", allowing for contextualizing a given map by being able to access alternative maps of the same topic.This proposal adds to the existing attempts to contribute to an ethical framework for map making, such as the Locus Charter or the Code of Ethics of the British Cartographic Society.

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Peterson, Michael P. "The Application Programmer Interface (API) in Modern Cartography: Development and Prospects." Abstracts of the ICA 1 (July 15, 2019): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/ica-abs-1-297-2019.

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Abstract. Application Programmer Interfaces have been a part of the cartographic landscape since 2006 with the introduction of the Google Maps API. Essentially a library of code that provides access to a variety of mapping functions, APIs have since been the basis of online, tile-based, Multiscale Pannable (MSP) mapping. While the Google Maps API is still the most widely used with more than 4.6 billion websites embedding a Google Map, a variety of other mapping APIs have been introduced primarily to circumvent Google’s pricing structure.The cost for using Google Maps on websites has changed over the years. From 2005 to 2011, the use of Google Maps was free no matter how many maps were referenced by a website. From then to 2016, Google limited map downloads to 25,000 map loads a day for 90 consecutive days. In 2016, the 90 consecutive days was removed so the number of maps downloaded could not exceed 25,000 on any given day. If it did, the website developer needed to register their site and pay a fee for maps produced over this limit.In April 2018, Google announced the launch of a new name for the Google Maps API – Google Maps Platform – and a new pricing plan. A free tier continues to be offered through a US $200 monthly credit but now requires creating an account and entering a credit card number. In this new online platform, it is still possible to use the Google Maps API without incurring any cost by limiting the number of daily downloads so that the monthly quota of 28,000 map downloads is not exceeded.The problem is not the use of the Google Maps API but the Google map tiles. The look of maps from Google and the associated interface have become so popular that users avoid using other kinds of maps – even those from Apple. Users complain that the tiles from other vendors implement a different color scheme or highlight different features. They also complain that these maps appear more slowly. While other APIs can use Google Map tiles, including the popular Leaflet API, their use is still subject to the same pricing structure.With the help of the Internet, maps from Google have become the standard maps. All other renditions of the world are seen to be inferior and not worthy of examination. They are simply interesting oddities. While some can adapt to alternative representations, most choose not to. This Google Map phenomena is examined along with lessons from the historical progression of online mapping.

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Mumford, Cara. "Dancing the Waterways in Leanne Simpson’s she sang them home." Performing (in) Place: Moving on/with the Land 7, no. 1-2 (January 20, 2022): 29–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1085310ar.

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Inspired by essay films meditating on time, travel and ceremony and informed by cinematic cartography, my short dance film, sing them home (2020), travels the specific bodies of water that form the route that Atlantic Salmon once journeyed as they migrated to Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg territory. Rooted in Nishnaabewin and Indigenous food sovereignty, toward a vision of the collective continuance of Michi Saagiig aki miijim, the film uses movement to activate sites in and on the shores of these lakes and rivers in the present while remembering the past and future of this waterway and her kin. This photo essay documents the film's journey and invites you to consider the making of this dance film as a prayer for the salmon to return.

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Chao, Long. "Hong Kong as Alternative Sinophone Articulation: Translation and Literary Cartography in Dung Kai-Cheung’S Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City." Open Cultural Studies 2, no. 1 (December 1, 2018): 771–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/culture-2018-0069.

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Abstract Following the 2014 Umbrella Movement, Hong Kong society has witnessed a series of fights between social (youth) activists and its Special Administrative Government (SAR). What was at stake really boils down to the issue of Hong Kong’s self-positioning vis-a-vis the rising economic and political strength of Mainland China. This issue is certainly nothing new, given that most cultural discourses in the 1990s, both within and outside Hong Kong, have focused on the city’s postcolonial status after the handover. This article therefore proposes to approach such an issue from the perspective of the Sinophone to bring to light how cultural production in Hong Kong can generate alternative thinking. It considers specifically a literary work by a native Hong Kong writer, namely, Dung Kai-cheung’s Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City (Atlas), through the lens of translation. By analysing how Dung Kai-cheung engages in three levels of translation to paint a kaleidoscopic image of Hong Kong, this article shows how the concept of Sinophone can inspire, enlighten and even question existing knowledge about Hong Kong’s history and culture. Eventually, Atlas, shown as deprived of a nativist or nationalistic discourse, creates new epistemic possibilities for understanding Hong Kong. As part of the ongoing global Sinophone cultures, Atlas also exemplifies how Hong Kong can be imagined to hold an equally important position vis-a-vis Mainland China.

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Gimenes de Sena, Carla Cristina Reinaldo, and Barbara Gomes Flaire Jordão. "Evaluation of adapted books and the use of Tactile Cartography at public schools in the State of São Paulo, Brazil." Proceedings of the ICA 1 (May 16, 2018): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/ica-proc-1-47-2018.

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Brazil adopts an educational inclusion policy, which is based on the insertion of students with special needs in the elementary and high school. In the State of São Paulo, Brazil, visually impaired students, who attend public schools, receive books adapted for blind and low sighted individuals, so they can participate on Geography classes. This paper presents the results of the analysis of the enlarged material adapted to braille used at the elementary school. The analysis was based on the principle of the graphical semiology developed by ALMEIDA (2015), which discusses the use of alternative materials in order to represent areas, lines and dots with different heights, textures and shapes. The results were obtained through interviews, surveys and evaluation of teachers and students, who somehow experience the specificities of the visually impaired students daily. We observed that the adapted books do not bring all information contained in the original versions of the books and some of the exercises are not presented. Furthermore we could notice that the teachers and other students do not have any level of proficiency in understanding braille, which can hamper the interaction between visually impaired and the other students. After the observations, we adapted 22 maps using colored materials and handcraft techniques taking in-to account the different needs of the low sighted audience. The materials used are easy to be found and purchased, since they have a low cost. Using this alternative material we achieved a learning that was representative to all students and to the teachers, providing the socialization of the acquired knowledge.

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Mamou, Regina. "Mapping Collected Memory: An Exploration of Memory-Based Navigation in Amman, Jordan." Contemporaneity: Historical Presence in Visual Culture 3 (June 5, 2014): 138–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/contemp.2014.77.

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The purpose of this research is to explore navigational and image-making methods in a context where maps and formal address systems have been minimally consulted in recent years. This investigation is approached by way of a research-based art project on subjective cartography, which was carried out from 2009 to 2010 during a Fulbright fellowship to Amman, Jordan. The project examines the mutability of a specific location as well as its relationship between obsolescence in cartographic resources and the photographic medium. By reaching out to Ammani residents for informal tours of the city, selected guides were asked to narrate their experiences of navigating the city by memory and then directed to point out key landmarks during this process. Later, these tours were re-memorized and landmarks were photographed as a representation of the afterimage to capture high-quality still images through the use of a large-format photographic device. These afterimages are not intended to serve as documents or memorials of Amman but rather as ruminations on the faculties of memory in an ever-changing environment. This subjective experience, or the observation of a city’s minutiae amid wayfinding, poses a series of inquiries, vis-à-vis memory-based navigation and the role of still images, as an alternative to the panoptic view of a map. The result is a meditative project considering the plasticity of an urban entity, presented as a composition of written material and large-scale photographs, fragments of the city that when viewed as a series come together as a constellation of a subjective whole.

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Chabaniuk, V., and O. Dyshlyk. "National spatial data infrastructure (nsdi) of Ukraine: what are its actual, feasible and simultaneously "correct" models?" Zemleustrìj, kadastr ì monìtorìng zemelʹ, no. 3 (August 28, 2021): 11. http://dx.doi.org/10.31548/zemleustriy2021.03.11.

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The actual, feasible and simultaneously "correct" models of digital NSDI of Ukraine are considered in the work. A model of the existed digital NSDI system of Ukraine is named “actual”. This model already differs from the model defined by the [1]. As the latter is unlikely to be implemented in the near future, the issue of the digital feasible NSDI model of Ukraine in the next five years, which would take into account the actual model, is especially acute. In addition to feasibility, such a model must also be "correct", what is proposed in the article. The correct is called a model, the truth of which can be established by inductive or deductive reasoning. To do this, the correct model must be formalized enough so that everyone can verify the authors’ reasoning independently. Understanding both actual and correct models of NSDI of Ukraine will help to properly organize and develop actual Spatial Infrastructure Activities (SpIA) in Ukraine, including the real[1] implementation of the [1]. Although the results of the article call into question its feasibility and substantiate an alternative viewpoint on the automation problem of NGDI/NSDI/SpIA. However, we are convinced that it is still possible to change the alternative viewpoint to a cooperative one, if by means of by-laws the models of NGDI (Law), NSDI (article) and, finally, SpIA are agreed upon To prove the "correctness" of the feasible NSDI model, the theory of Relational cartography and its two main methods are used: Conceptual Frameworks and Solution Frameworks. In addition, the correspondence between Relational cartography and Model-Based Engineering is used. Key words: NSDI; product model; process model; actual, feasible and «correct» model. [1] Real. 1. Which exists in reality, true. Is used with: reality, life, existence, conditions, circumstances, fact, danger, force, wages, income. 2. One that can be implemented, executed: a real plan, a real program, a real task, a real deadline. 3. Which is based on taking into account and assessing the real conditions of reality: a real approach, a real view, a real policy.- accessed 2021-feb-14, http://slovopedia.org.ua/32/53408/32016.html (Ukrainian).

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Chaves, Rui, and Thaís A. Aragão. "Localising Acoustic Ecology: A critique towards a relational collaborative paradigm." Organised Sound 26, no. 2 (August 2021): 190–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1355771821000236.

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This article focuses on critically provincialising some of the ethico-political challenges inherent to much of the acoustic ecology vocabulary and conceptual framework. As we will demonstrate, much of the underlying limitations stem from an adherence to a particular self-transformation praxis (from the ‘New Age’ movement) alongside an overtly optimist and culturally selective outlook on how a well-informed acoustic designer would guide individuals and communities to a better sonic world. This epistemological and aesthetic outlook is presented in order to offer an alternative view on how collaborative works that deal with the sonic can take place within communities. One, where rigid hierarchies and orthodoxies are substituted by an intersubjective listening that changes all actors involved in the process. This is the framework from which we present Cildo Meireles’s Sal Sem Carne LP (1975) and Lilian Nakahodo’s sonic cartography Mapa sonoro CWB: Uma cartografia afetiva de Curitiba (2015–).

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Rebughini, Paola. "Critical agency and the future of critique." Current Sociology 66, no. 1 (April 18, 2017): 3–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0011392117702427.

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The aim of this article is to offer a cartography of the current debate on critical agency, starting from the inner ambivalences of the modern notion of critique as resistant negation and affirmative creation of new practices. First, the article discusses the double-faced nature of critique and its interpretations in the European tradition of critical thought. It then engages in reflection on some alternative pathways to conceptualizing critical agency developed by American pragmatism, as well as by anti-Eurocentric and anti-anthropocentric theoretical approaches. The aim of this investigation is to understand the premises for developing critical agency in contemporary historical conditions, and to shed light on the characteristics of critical agency at a time when critique can no longer be solely an unmasking tool, while we have not abandoned the aspiration to link the contingency of situated critical agencies with an image of the future.

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Siddons, Louise. "Seeing the four sacred mountains: Mapping, landscape and Navajo sovereignty." European Journal of American Culture 39, no. 1 (March 1, 2020): 63–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ejac_00011_1.

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In 1968, photographer Laura Gilpin published The Enduring Navaho, which intentionally juxtaposes colonialist cartography with an immersive understanding of landscape. This article situates Gilpin’s project within the broader historical trajectory of traditional Navajo spatial imaginaries, including the work of contemporary Navajo artist Will Wilson. Euramerican settler-colonist maps of the Navajo Nation at mid-century were tools for Native displacement, revealing the transnational dilemma of the Navajo people. Their twentieth-century history was one of continual negotiation; on a pragmatic level, it often entailed the cultivation and education of Euramerican allies such as Gilpin. For her, landscape photography offered an alternative indexical authority to colonial maps, and thus had the potential to redefine Navajo space in the Euramerican imagination ‐ in terms that were closely aligned with Navajo ideology. Without escaping the contradictions inherent in her postcolonial situation, Gilpin sought a political space for Navajo epistemology, and thus for Navajo sovereignty.

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Arnold-Forster, Agnes. "Mapmaking and Mapthinking: Cancer as a Problem of Place in Nineteenth-century England." Social History of Medicine 33, no. 2 (October 8, 2018): 463–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/shm/hky059.

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Abstract In the nineteenth century, Dr Alfred Haviland plotted the distribution of cancer on maps of England. Matured within the intellectual milieu of nascent professional public health, his work can be married to that of his fellow sanitary reformers; however, his approach to medical cartography differed from what historians expect of Victorian mapmakers. While most of his mapmaking colleagues attended to urban places, Haviland turned his attention to the English countryside. This article will thus make three interventions into the limited literature on cancer in nineteenth-century England. First, it will demonstrate how cancer came to be constituted as a problem of place. Second, it will show that Haviland understood the disease to be produced by rural environs, and thus paradoxically correlated to healthful locales rather than areas of urban squalor. Third, this article suggests an alternative to the well-travelled interpretation of nineteenth-century mapping as an exercise in power and social control.

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Tucci, P. L. "The marble plan of the Via Anicia and the Temple of Castor and Pollux in Circo Flaminio: the state of the question." Papers of the British School at Rome 81 (September 26, 2013): 91–127. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0068246213000068.

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Much has been written in the past three decades about the marble plan found in the Via Anicia, which depicts the late Republican Temple of Castor and Pollux in Circo Flaminio, and its importance for the study of temple architecture and ancient cartography. Far less attention has been paid to the identification of the temple in the topography of the southern Campus Martius. In 1996 an excavation carried out in Piazza delle Cinque Scole brought to light the remains of a ‘monumental building’ that has been identified resolutely by the excavators as the Temple of Castor and Pollux. In this article, after a survey of what is known from the marble plan and previous excavations, I explain why my alternative location of the temple better fits the evidence from the Via Anicia plan and the 1996 excavation. I also shed new light on the area of the circus from the late Republican period to late antiquity and on transverse cella temples.

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Justaert, Kristien. "Cartographies of Experience: Rethinking the Method of Liberation Theology." Horizons 42, no. 2 (November 23, 2015): 237–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/hor.2015.59.

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The core of this article consists of a critical rethinking of the classical “see-judge-act” methodology of liberation theology. The article contends that this method threatens to install a dualism between a universal, secular experience of oppression and a Christian interpretation of it, thereby creating a hierarchical relation that reduces the complexity of the experience of poverty. The author investigates this issue by focusing on liberation theology's understanding of the “preferential option for the poor” (part 1) and the way in which the see-judge-act methodology affects this understanding (part 2). The article gradually moves on to alternative epistemologies, starting with a discussion of a hermeneutical approach (C. Boff and Schillebeeckx) and the method of “historicization” (Ellacuría), and eventually proposing a new phenomenologically and materially informed methodology for liberation theology that is called “cartography” and is grounded in a “new materialist” metaphysics as articulated by Deleuze, Braidotti, and Barad (part 3).

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