{"id":5199,"date":"2017-10-12T13:00:30","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T17:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=5199"},"modified":"2017-10-12T12:31:25","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T16:31:25","slug":"counter-mapping-the-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/10\/counter-mapping-the-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Counter-Mapping’ the Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Samuel Fritz, “The Mara\u00f1on or Amazon River with the Mission of the Society of Jesus,” 1707. Map, 31\u00d739 cm. National Library of Brazil. Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Conversation<\/em>\u00a0has a piece<\/a> on how indigenous peoples in the Amazon are using “counter-mapping” to reclaim not only their ancestral lands, but as a way to counter the colonial process of mapmaking itself.<\/p>\n

Maps have always been part of the imposition of power over colonised peoples. While map-making might be thought of as \u201cobjective\u201d, it is fundamentally political, a necessary part of controlling a territory. Maps inscribe borders, which are then used to include some and exclude others.<\/p>\n

During a late 19th-century rubber boom, Amazonia became increasingly well mapped out as the young nations of Peru, Bolivia, Brazil and Colombia<\/a> vied for territorial control. The rights and interests of Amazonian peoples were never included in this process and they would be continually denied rights, recognition and citizenship from these nations until the 1980s and 1990s. Even following legal recognition, their territorial rights\u2014critical for their continued existence\u2014are still often ignored in practice.<\/p>\n

These marginalised people are now working together to reclaim the process of mapping itself. In the central Brazilian Amazon there has been a recent flurry of \u201ccounter-mapping\u201d, used by forest peoples to contest the very state maps that initially failed to recognise their ancestral territorial rights.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The Conversation\u00a0has a piece on how indigenous peoples in the Amazon are using “counter-mapping” to reclaim not only their ancestral lands, but as a way to counter the colonial process of mapmaking itself. 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