This article looks at the constraints faced by practitioners of traditional medicine in urban areas, and more specifically their access to the plants that make up their remedies. The approach is based on a spatialisation of sampling locations collected from traditional practitioners practising in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso. The aim is to show how the urban footprint and land use have reduced the availability of natural resources. This has lengthened collection distances and contributed to the emergence of new practices such as the cultivation of medicinal plants.
Feminist GIS is currently a recognized branch of (critical) GIS. Yet, this association between feminism and GIS once seemed improbable. Feminist interactions with GIS started in the 1990s in the form of strong critiques against GIS inspired by feminist and postpositivist theories. Those critiques mainly highlighted a supposed epistemological dissonance between GIS and feminist scholarship. During the following decade, feminist geographers reexamined those critiques and advocated for the development of critical GIS practices that would support feminist research. Inspired by those debates, feminist scholars did reclaim GIS and effectively developed feminist GIS practices. In this article, I explore the history of feminist engagements with GIS, from critiques to critical approaches.
This article presents an archaeological study of the Argeles-sur-Mer camp, one of the camps set up by the French government in the south of France to house refugees from the Spanish Civil War in exile in France from february 1939 onwards. The first aim of the project is to unearth the spatial forms of the camp, which have now disappeared. It then looks at the spatial translation of the socio-political processes that gave rise to them, to show how space was used to confine and monitor refugee populations until 1942. Finally, it examines the role of the camp's legacy in the contemporary transformation of space. Echoing the biographical narratives of micro-history, the study takes the form of a cartographic narrative produced on the micro-scale of the place of confinement. Based on selected archival sources, the maps tell the story of the camp in order to read and analyse the spatial dimension of confinement and question the transmission of its forms. The study also takes part of a teaching project on cartography and the history of places of memory.
Mental maps are studied in geography through a visual filter, without really analyzing the effect of non-visual perception on the construction of mental maps, especially on landmarks in the city. Our study of visually impaired and blind’s mental maps, through surveys and go-along interviews, questions a possible fragmented aspect of the mental maps of the city, built by proximity senses (touch, olfaction, hearing). Our results show that fragmentation depends upon visual impairment, but more precisely upon the individual’s self-reliance.
Using relevant examples drawn from Romanian and European geographical expertise in spatial planning and specialist training, the article explores the ambiguous relationship between map-makers and map-users, a relationship increasingly marked by mutual distrust. Drawing on historical and epistemological reflections on the subject, the article examines the foundations and dynamics of contemporary cartography, using the specific case of Romania as an example. Avoiding proposing solutions, the text prefers to raise questions and suggest avenues for reflection, including on the efforts that still need to be made in terms of the effectiveness of cartographic communication and the harmonisation of cartographic discourse.
Reflecting upon geographical uncertainties through a historical perspective opens numerous paths. European imperial expansion in the Americas, territories which have been more invented and fantasised about than “discovered”, decentered scene of European rivalries, experimental model of colonisation and of government from a distance, provides fertile pathways of analysis. Our contribution aims at defining some of the uses and practices pertaining to cartography as operated between the XVIth and XVIIth centuries, at assessing their impact in terms of power, while questioning its link to the notion of uncertainty.
The cartography of social movements is explored in this article in the light of a cartographic production carried out during a mobilization in France against pension reform. The uncertainties raised by this sensitive and personal production prompt us to consider the methodological, theoretical and ethical issues surrounding the cartography of mobilizations. The choice of the scale of the representation is questioned in relation to the scale of the demands. The legitimacy of the discourse is closely linked to the field. The usefulness of cartographic production is linked to the issue of transmission and knowledge of struggles, which also constitutes a risk.
Using a database about French maritime trade of the end of the eighteen century, this is a proposal for the interactive analysis of ships (or captains) itineraries, very uncertain per nature, on the Web. It defends first, the requirements for an accurate modeling of this multi-dimensionnal uncertainty character of the dataset, and second the conception of a specific exploratory tool, well suited for user needs. The aim here is to intelligently combine cartography and interactive graphics to facilitate analysis and critical interpretation of the sources in the database. This free, web-based tool offers an original perspective on the use of interactive chronograms in spatio-temporal representations.
À partir d’une représentation cartographique collaborative des expériences vécues durant la pandémie de COVID-19 à Mexico, Hanoï, Montréal et Paris, ainsi que de deux ateliers de cartographie collaborative menés auprès de groupes de femmes vivant à Mexico, cet article analyse la puissance que revêt le langage cartographique pour transcender les différences de langues, de disciplines, de positionnalités et de cultures. Il démontre l’importance de la cartographie dans un processus de comparaison à l’échelle mondiale. Les cartes analysent les stratégies que les gens ont imaginées pour composer avec les bouleversements de leur vie au moyen de gestes de réparation qui, même microscopiques, ont fait émerger une ville bienveillante.
Le changement socio-démographique majeur caractérisant l’arrondissement de Saint-Léonard (Canada) affecte la relation des jeunes issus de l’immigration à l’espace public. À partir d’observations, de groupes de discussion par photovoix et d’entretiens semi-dirigés, nous avançons que les espaces publics dédiés aux jeunes sont limités et limitants. Nous proposons une cartographie critique des espaces dits négatifs du quartier afin d’informer et d’influencer la planification des espaces publics.
Cet article revient, a posteriori, sur le processus de cartographie avec cinq jeunes nord-montréalais. Le choix de travailler ensemble autour de cartes était tout autant animé par la volonté de mieux comprendre les perceptions, récits et pratiques du quartier, que par celle d’établir une démarche collaborative autour de la cartographie permettant aux jeunes impliqués de collecter et produire leurs propres narrations et visuels sur les espaces qu’ils fréquentent et habitent via la collecte de clichés sur Instagram et de marche commentée. Cet article a pour ambition, dans une démarche réflexive, d’interroger la conception et la réception des cartes produites pour comprendre où la collaboration se situe dans le processus cartographique ? L’article présente d’abord le projet de recherche et son contexte, puis revient sur la notion de cartographie collaborative et sur les étapes de la carte jusqu’à diffusion de « J’te parle du Nord ! » en 2021. Enfin, l’article évoque les limites en interrogeant les blancs de la carte, définis ici à travers les enjeux de représentativités.
This work explores the potential of interactive mapping, via the CartABl software, to develop accessible critical cartography. CartABl makes it possible to create interactive mapping scenarios-based interactive maps, freeing users from the technical constraints of IT development. Using the example of recreational boating mapping, the proposed scenario facilitates the exploration of maps biases, empowering non-experts. This project contributes to renewing the dissemination of geographical knowledge by strengthening users' ability to question representation choices and actively participate in map-making.
Using a mixed quantitative and qualitative approach, based on the analysis of individual-level data from the 2020 French population census (INSEE) and on thirty semi-structured interviews, this article offers an original examination of the spatial distribution of French nationals of Oceanian origin (New Caledonia, French Polynesia, and Wallis and Futuna) residing in metropolitan France. Conducted at both departmental level and IRIS scale, the analysis culminates in a detailed case study of the Toulon area, which hosts the highest concentration of Oceanian populations in metropolitan France
