ABSTRACT
Mapping is an invaluable method for doing critical resource geographies through engagement with the social relations and practices that bring resources into being. This methodological approach relies on treating mapping as a broad range of practices associated with the production, use, and reading of maps. A processual approach helps to separate mapping from cartography's use of dominate understandings of space and its organization to systematically address questions of representation associated with more instrumental approaches. Seen in terms of its practices, mapping as method can be applied anywhere maps are made, read, or used, opening them up to multiple readings that show how resources are at once historically contingent and socially contested. This chapter draws from three mapping projects done with Indigenous communities to demonstrate the potential of the methodological approach presented for engaging with differences of epistemology and ontology. That approach highlights the myriad ways that enclosure works through mapping at the same time that it draws attention to mapping's potential for the fashioning of new worlds.
