In this seminar we will look at how extreme cartography can become a means of resistance challenging the prerogatives of power and re-asserting historical entitlements to land and landscape. Reaching from the Inuit trails in the far Arctic to work with hunter-gatherers in central Africa these two presentations revise dominant notions of land and ownership.



Michael Bravo (biog)

Envisioning Inuit Homelands with Trails and Tracks: a Discussion of the Pan-Inuit Atlas



Michael is based at the Scott Polar Research Institute. He is co-editor of 'Narrating the Arctic: A Cultural History of Nordic Scientific Practices (2002)' with Sverker Sörlin, and 'Arctic Geopolitics and Autonomy (2011)' with Nicola Triscott . His current project is producing the 'Pan-Inuit Trails Atlas' which trace the nomadic tracks of Inuit peoples as chronicled by decades of travellers and explorers in the Arctic regions of Northern Canada. The Atlas focuses on historical written evidence of Inuit presence across the Canadian Arctic. It contains material obtained from hundreds of published and unpublished documents produced by explorers, ethnographers and other visitors who were in contact with Inuit during the early contact period or shortly before Inuit moved to permanent settlements.



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