Abstract

OSLENDER, Ulrich. Relational ontology and social cartography. Towards an emancipating counter-mapping, or a counter-hegemonic delusion?. Tabula Rasa [online]. 2017, n.26, pp.247-262. ISSN 1794-2489.  https://doi.org/10.25058/20112742.196.

Recent debates in assemblage thinking in the social sciences have stressed the notion of "relational ontologies" to conceptualize the complex interactions between humans and non-humans. In this article I examine the role of cartography in the politicization of relational ontologies, and in particular the potential of what has been termed "social cartography" in Colombia, which pretends to be a tool for challenging dominant cartographic representations. At the same time, I will reflect on the limits of this pretension and the ways in which social cartography has been coopted by dominant power.

Keywords : imperialism; modernity; eurocentrism; political ontology; pluriverse; critical cartography; Colombian Pacific; aquatic epistemology.

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