schizocartography

noun

The use of alternate cartographies to challenge hegemonic narratives.

Scrabble 42

Meanings

nounschizocartography (countable and uncountable, plural schizocartographies)

plural schizocartographies

  1. 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 Anthropocene
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    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 192

    Schizocartography 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.

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