Deconstructing the conservancy map; hxaro, n!ore and rhizomes in the Kalahari.

Vermeylen, Saskia and Davies, Gemma and van der Horst, Dan (2012) Deconstructing the conservancy map; hxaro, n!ore and rhizomes in the Kalahari. Cartographica, 47 (2). pp. 121-134. ISSN 0317-7173

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Abstract

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.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Cartographica
Uncontrolled Keywords:
/dk/atira/pure/core/keywords/geography
Subjects:
?? land rightsindigeneity silence participatory gis counter-mapping narrativesgeographyearth-surface processesga mathematical geography. cartography ??
ID Code:
54999
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Deposited On:
11 Jun 2012 09:08
Refereed?:
Yes
Published?:
Published
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15 Jul 2024 12:53