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Popular cartography: collaboratively mapping the territorial practices of/with the urban margin in Mumbai

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  • Min Tang
  • Viviana d’Auria

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This paper foregrounds the methodological question of how the heuristic research practices of mapping and ethnography operate together to co-produce situated knowledge of/with the urban margin. By critically reflecting on collaborative map-making with young adults in Dharavi (Mumbai), it argues for mapping as an open-ended collaboration in which mappers’ various ‘finding’ and ‘founding’ acts to support the production of situated knowledge of an ever-shifting urban margin. The continuous efforts to make such knowledge visible is through re-reading, re-writing and re-drawing acts. The method prompted by this experience is proposed as ‘popular cartography’. It aims to transcend mappers’ backgrounds, technical skills, and disciplinary biases, and offers a collaborative medium for expressing often overlooked, opaque or difficult-to-describe lived experiences.

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  • Min Tang & Viviana d’Auria, 2023. "Popular cartography: collaboratively mapping the territorial practices of/with the urban margin in Mumbai," City, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 27(3-4), pages 321-346, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:27:y:2023:i:3-4:p:321-346
    DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2023.2219172
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