ABSTRACT
This essay demonstrates how the activist praxis of radical cartography can be combined with textual criticism to deepen students’ understanding of social inequalities in the city. The digital mapping of novels provides a new way of seeing power relations. By combining geography and textual criticism, students gain a better sense of place when reading novels; and a greater understanding of how novels make the lived city, which is absent in maps, visible. Theory and practice come together in digital humanities projects, and by doing so, invite students to think on how social processes find their expression in and through urban space.
