Countermapping lethal and environmentally damaging policies
Résumé
A map is a visual story of the world. It feeds our imagination
and shapes our view of the world. A standard Atlas, however,
predominantly tells only one story, that of the nation-state.
It depicts a world in which people are uniformly packed
into national containers, enclosed by borders, and in which
migration is often represented as threatening invasion arrows.
Free the map goes beyond this narrow, state-centric
cartography. The book argues for a new cartographic story: a
Hermes — the grandson of Atlas and the god of mobility and
human connections. To this end, it discusses several visually
compelling, alternative cartographic representations of
borders and migration.