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T1 - Deconstructing the conservancy map; hxaro, n!ore and rhizomes in the Kalahari.
AU - Vermeylen, Saskia
AU - Davies, Gemma
AU - van der Horst, Dan
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - To stand a chance of reclaiming their pre-colonial rights, indigenous peoples often have to deploy the tools and logic of the colonial state. Through a case study of community conservancy in Namibia, we demonstrate that the same holds for the practice of participatory mapping. We engage with J.B. Harley's deconstruction of maps and use our ethnographic data to reveal the silences and lies inherent in the rigid cartographic representations of conservancy maps. The indigenous peoples in our case study are the San, who have been marginalized and displaced from their land. We highlight how these people, once perceived by the colonialists as “rootless,” do have strong relational connections across the landscape. We argue that the practice of counter-mapping, along with its critique, is incomplete without full attention to the silences of the map and the relational rhizomes (across boundaries) of the peoples involved.
AB - To stand a chance of reclaiming their pre-colonial rights, indigenous peoples often have to deploy the tools and logic of the colonial state. Through a case study of community conservancy in Namibia, we demonstrate that the same holds for the practice of participatory mapping. We engage with J.B. Harley's deconstruction of maps and use our ethnographic data to reveal the silences and lies inherent in the rigid cartographic representations of conservancy maps. The indigenous peoples in our case study are the San, who have been marginalized and displaced from their land. We highlight how these people, once perceived by the colonialists as “rootless,” do have strong relational connections across the landscape. We argue that the practice of counter-mapping, along with its critique, is incomplete without full attention to the silences of the map and the relational rhizomes (across boundaries) of the peoples involved.
KW - land rights
KW - indigeneity
KW - silence
KW - participatory GIS
KW - counter-mapping
KW - narratives
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84861415019&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3138/carto.47.2.121
DO - 10.3138/carto.47.2.121
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:84861415019
VL - 47
SP - 121
EP - 134
JO - Cartographica
JF - Cartographica
SN - 0317-7173
IS - 2
ER -