Imagining the Border

28 Janeiro 2019, 08:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

We viewed several demographic, indigenous, and speculative maps of the current and historical territory known now as the United States. The map of indigenous northAmerica, which allows users to search a present-day address to see its location in pre-conquest indigenous land; maps of a “greater” and “lesser” United States that might have resulted from different histories of 19th-century expansion; and maps showing the distribution of racial populations in major US cities. We discussed the ways that “cultural geography” differs from conventional mapping, and how it compels us to consider how space is made and imagined through relationships of power that change over time.