Meanings
plural schizocartographies
- countableuncountableThe use of alternate cartographies to challenge hegemonic narratives.
In this way, schizocartography offers a more multidirectional approach to topological mapping that includes a subject whilst at the same time still allowing for an a-centring of the self.
2019, Jamie Mcphie, Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Anthropocene2 more examples
The schizocartographies highlighted here operate against the grain, counter to the well-trodden urban path, while at the same time recognizing the dominant structure for what it is, what it does and what it represents.
2015, Tina Richardson, “Developing Schizocartography: Formulating a Theoretical Methodology for a Walking Practice”, in Tina Richardson, editor, Walking Inside Out: Contemporary British Psychogeography, page 192Schizocartography aims to create visual maps of place by revealing not only what is visually present or seen in a space, but the social history, alternative representations, and hidden or absent impressions.
2017, Stephanie Springgay, Sarah E. Truman, Walking Methodologies in a More-than-human World
Origin
Coined by Tina Richardson, following Félix Guattari, as a contraction of schizoanalytic cartography.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
schizocartography. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/schizocartography
“schizocartography.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/schizocartography. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “schizocartography,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/schizocartography.
Source: schizocartography on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.