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Katie Parker @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

In “Drawing the Line: The Interplay of European and African Mapping Practices in the Carte du Haut-Niger au Golfe de Guinée (1:1,000,000),” Tom Bassett looks at the intertwined nature of European and African mapping practices in a French example from 1890.

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Drawing the Line: The Interplay of European and African Mapping Practices in the Carte du Haut-Niger au Golfe de Guinée (1:1,000,000)

This article illustrates the intertwined nature of European and African mapping practices in the construction of Captain Louis-Gustave Binger’s 1890 Carte du Haut-Niger au Golfe de Guinée par le Pa...

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Katie Parker @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

In “Elemental Cartographies: Restoring Kuleana Mapping at Kauaʻula, Lahaina, Maui,” Candace Fujikane discusses kuleana maps as evidence in land disputes and links these maps to a more elemental understanding of space.

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Elemental Cartographies: Restoring Kuleana Mapping at Kauaʻula, Lahaina, Maui

Since long before the 2023 wildfires, Lahaina has been a battleground for Kānaka Maoli who are winning their ancestral lands back in settler courts of law. Kanaka Maoli leader Keʻeaumoku Kapu has w...

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Katie Parker @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

In “Indigenous Mapping and Mobile Spaces: The Sites and Sounds of Somali Encounters with Imperial Cartography in Eastern Africa,” Julie MacArthur examines oral and aural mapping practices in a colonial context.

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Indigenous Mapping and Mobile Spaces: The Sites and Sounds of Somali Encounters with Imperial Cartography in Eastern Africa

Cartography has long been defined through the opposition of fixity and mobility. Imperial cartography in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in eastern Africa worked to affix populations to part...

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