Ambivalent Cartographies: The Risk of Mapping the Flood
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This paper explores the ambivalence of cartography. Responding to Ulrich Beck’s diagnosis of modernity as a society of risk and to the necessity that risk be situated, the paper looks to the mapping project of Nashin Mahtani, who maps the path of rivers which she describes as 'breathing into' rather than flooding urban landscapes. Reconfiguring what it means for the river to exist in place, she suspends the conceit of the map as a product of inert lines and risk as quantifiable in advance. Ultimately, this ambivalent map doesn’t construct space but highlights the living quality of cartographic forms.
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