Mapping is a mode of storytelling. Yet, cartography is often concentrated in the hands of the powerful. In response, “counter-mapping” has developed as a practice that empowers communities to challenge hegemonic narratives about space and foreground subaltern knowledge. Through this 2-day event, faculty, students, and practitioners explored how mapping and counter-mapping might contribute to ethnographic and historical research. They also explored how art, activism, and scholarship help give these material objects a political afterlife. The event included a series of talks, a graduate student counter-mapping workshop, and a roundtable discussion.
