Issue 2 published 17 February 2017
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With an enlarged and strengthened editorial team we are pleased to announce the second issue of our online journal.                                        

Issue 2 includes coverage of the exhibition of 20^th century maps at the British Library, a review by Rhiannon Firth and an interview with the curator, Tom Harper. The exhibition raises questions about how critical cartography can challenge common sense assumptions about the nature of the map whilst at the same time appealing to the non-specialist and drawing in the crowds.

The Navigations section (longer articles) features an essay by Dick Pountain exploring recent developments in the neuro-science of cognitive mapping. The section also includes Dan MacQuillan’s counter-mapping of the corporate techno-utopia which is promoted through the smart city agenda, and the second part of ‘Our Kind of Town’ which sets out a manifesto for Livingmaps’ flagship project, a Citizen’s Atlas of London. George Jaramillo digs beneath the romantic landscape of thePeak District to show how it continues to be marked by an invisible scenography created from the working lives of its lead miners.

Jaramillo’s method of ethno-cartography is picked up by contributors to other sections of the journal. Jina Lee discusses her use of life drawing maps in an ethnographic study of diasporic community amongst people from South Korea living on the outskirts of London. Hilary Powell presents her recent community art project with the last miners of the South Wales valleys, excavating the material and cultural history of King Coal for what it can tell us about contemporary environmental and social issues.   

The editors of the Waypoints section  explore model making, art practice and critical cartography in collaboration with Steve Lowe of L-13, in a feature about Jimmy Cauty’s Aftermath Displacement Principle, a touring exhibition of a model post-apocalyptic landscape, peopled only by police and media crews: There is also a report about JustMap, an ongoing collaborative mapping of London community resources and groups involved in community-led processes.

The issue also  explores the cartographic imaginary in pieces by Jennie Savage and Dillon de Give. There is a commentary on William Bunge’s iconic maps from Fitzgerald-Geography of a Revolution, a piece by Oscar Aldred mapping out some key issues of cartographic representation, and by Tim Ingold on the work of David Lemm. We hope to carry an extended interview with David Lemm in issue 3.

Plus  reviews of Rebecca Solnit's  Atlas of New York by two Brooklyners and a collection of work by French critical cartographers., 

Future plans for the journal

With the growth of populist movements advancing isolationist and nativist programmes, we see the emergence of new topographies of exclusion centred on fault lines of religion, culture, ethnicity and race. Soft borders are turning into hard ones.  We will address this new political conjuncture in future issues of the journal.

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Livingmaps Review issue 2: Contents

Navigations

Phil Cohen Our Kind of Town (2)

George Steve Jaramillo Cartographies of Occlusion and the Underground

Dan McQuillan: Countermapping the smart city

Richard John Pountain: Our Cartographic Brain

Waypoints

Barbara Brayshay, Nicolas Fonty, Steve Lowe

James Cauty: The Aftermath Dislocation Principle. An Interview with Steve Lowe.

Nicolas Fonty: Metropolises, Maps and Planning

Jina Lee: Drawing Life Maps of New Malden

Mapworks

Oscar Aldred: The Map Is Not the Territory

Phil Cohen: William Bunge: Expeditionary Geography

Tim Ingold: What if the city were an ocean, and its buildings ships?

Lines of Desire

Jeremy Crump: Keeping the nation’s map collection: an interview with Tom Harper

Dillon de Give: Connective filaments, coyote walks on the map

Hilary Powell: Farewell Rock: The Last Miners of South Wales

Jennie Savage: Fracture Mob

Reviews

Jacques Levy (ed) A Cartographic Turn: Mapping and the Spatial Challenge in Social Sciences; Henry Eliot and Matt Lloyd-Rose Curiocity; Exhibition: Maps and the Twentieth Century: Drawing the Line; Laurence Ward: The London County Council Bomb Damage Maps 1939-1945; Yasminah Beebeejaun (ed.) The Participatory City; Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro Nonstop Metropolis A New York City Atlas

 

Livingmaps Review is produced by Livingmaps Network www.livingmaps.org.uk

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