Weaponizing Maps: Indigenous Peoples and Counterinsurgency in the Americas

by Denis Wood and Joe Bryan

Book Overview

Maps play an indispensable role in indigenous peoples' efforts to secure land rights in the Americas and beyond. Yet indigenous peoples did not invent participatory mapping techniques on their own; they appropriated them from techniques developed for colonial rule and counterinsurgency campaigns, and refined by anthropologists and geographers. Through a series of historical and contemporary examples from Nicaragua, Canada, and Mexico, this book explores...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 146251992X
• ISBN13: 9781462519927
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Guilford Publications
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.8" x 9.1"