schizocartography
schizocartography noun: the use of alternate cartographies to challenge hegemonic narratives.
Noun
schizocartography (countable and uncountable, plural schizocartographies)
- The use of alternate cartographies to challenge hegemonic narratives.
- 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...
- 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
Forms of schizocartography
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Origin of schizocartography
Coined by Tina Richardson, following Félix Guattari, as a contraction of schizoanalytic cartography.
Questions about schizocartography
- What does schizocartography mean?
- Schizocartography means the use of alternate cartographies to challenge hegemonic narratives.
- What part of speech is schizocartography?
- Schizocartography is a noun.
- What is the plural of schizocartography?
- The plural of schizocartography is schizocartographies.
Words near schizocartography in the dictionary
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