Carto-fiction: narrativising maps through creative writing
| Autor: | Giada Peterle |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Cultural Studies
05 social sciences Geography Planning and Development Perspective (graphical) creative writing 0211 other engineering and technologies 0507 social and economic geography 021107 urban & regional planning 02 engineering and technology narrative cartography Focus (linguistics) Visual arts Post-representational cartography creative writing ethnofiction narrative cartography creative geography autoethnography Power (social and political) Embodied cognition Creative writing Post-representational cartography ethnofiction creative geography Product (category theory) autoethnography 050703 geography |
| Popis: | This study reacts to the recent call for a narrativisation of maps’ life in post-representational cartography, proposing ‘cartographic fictional writing’ as a means to move geography’s ‘creative (re)turn’ from a place-centred to a ‘carto-centred’ perspective, and as an epistemological tool to go on rethinking maps from post-representational perspectives. First, ‘carto-fiction’ is defined as a self-reflexive (autoethnographic), ethnofictional, creative carto-centred product/practice of research. Second, by including the entire short story entitled ‘Unfolding Berlin’ and an autoethnographic account on how it emerged, this study strives to both theorise and perform carto-fictional writing as an embodied and trans-subjective mapping experience. My goal is to propose ‘carto-fiction’ as a prolific tool to let emotional, subjective cartographies emerge and to narrativise maps as mapping practices. The article further strives to focus on the mapping power of creative writing, and carto-fictional writing a... |
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