ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the maps of transboundary protected areas designed and produced by a variety of actors including protected area administrators, non-governmental organisations, state bodies and international organisations or donors. Mapping protected areas is naturally far different from mapping geopolitical and military campaigns under Fascist rule for propaganda purposes. In Velasco-Graciet analysis of protected area policies in Trinidad, Sletto uses Paasi's idea of the institutionalisation of a spatial entity to link the theorization of boundary making with the social production of bounded protected areas, a process informed by the concurrent processes of differentiation and integration. The map becomes an icon, recognized by others, constructing and institutionalising a facet of social space. Maps produced by protected area administrations are useful illustrations of the process of constructing the Other, providing a graphical illustration of one aspect of (re)territorialisation though the institutionalisation of space.
