Human Geography

Monthly Archives: November 2012

Caging/self-caging: materiality and memes as tools for geopolitical analysis

Fabrizio Eva Human beings, both individually and collectively, are simultaneously victims and perpetrators of the ongoing process of caging (more related to iconographies and power) and self-caging (which is more subjective and individual, related to both iconographies and movement). The
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Cree Ethnogeography

Gwilym Lucas Eades This paper explores the nature of Wemindji Cree territorial identity. It uses a mixed methods approachcombining qualitative geographic information systems (GIS) and ethnography. GIS was used to categorize a database of Wemindji Cree place names within local
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Mapping in Epistemological Translation, revising the critique of GIS (Geographical Information Systems) as an instrument of cultural assimilation

Oscar Forero This paper examines some of the features that have made maps into an essential and traditional tool used by all those involved in the management of natural resources. A main competency of natural resource managers and geographers is
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