Dear  Colleagues.

 I am enclosing below some information about the next event in our Summer programme, a lecture by Joe Gerlach on Vernacular Cartographies. Joe belongs to a younger generation of anthropologists whose work is at the cutting edge of new developments in inter-disciplinary approaches to cultural analysis. Working at the intersection of ethnography , geography and cartography, Joe's work challenges many of the traditional methods in these fields. We are also fortunate in having as discussant, one of our leading urban ethnographers ,Les Back. I very much hope that you will be able to make what we are sure will be a fascinating event - please book online.

 Can I also draw your attention to the first issue of our new on-line journal :www.livingmaps.review which I am sure you will find of interest.
Look forward to seeing you on Wednesday.

 all the best

 Phil Cohen 

 Research Director LivingMaps Network

Editor LivingMaps review
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>
> May 25th, 18.00-20.00: Public
> Lecture
>
> Joe Gerlach on Vernacular
> Cartographies Discussant Les Back
>
> Venue: Room G02, Bartlett School of Architecture, 140 Hampstead Road,
> London NW1 2LX
>
> Of late, much has been made of the politics of maps – to
> the extent that reiterating the ‘power’ of maps has become something of a
> truism, one that threatens, ironically, the political vibrancy of cartography.
> Responding to this threat, the lecture examines another way of thinking about
> the nature and ethics of mapping through the concept of ‘vernacular mapping’.
> In doing so, the lecture points to a series of recent cartographic events in
> which the geopolitics of mapping is refigured less as a ‘technology of
> representation and capture’, and more as a ‘technology of anticipation’; no
> matter whether it is used in the fields of participatory cartography, mental
> health practice or political struggle.
>
>
> Joe is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the School
> of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford. Joe has a long-standing
> research interest in the nature and geopolitics of mapping, specifically in
> so-called ‘non-representational’ understandings of cartography. His fieldwork
> has included participating in OpenStreetMap and other collaborative
> cartographies in the UK, USA and Andean Latin America.
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> Les
> Back is Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths College and the author of many
> books including Urban Multiculture
> and The Art of Listening
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>
> Tickets £10 and £7 concession. Book: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/joe-gerlach-vernacular-cartographies-tickets-24951572826
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