ABSTRACT
From their conception and design to their production and distribution, mapmaking processes can become part of a research process and source of insight. An ethnographic device, cartography becomes a graphic form of thick description, representing information and analysis emerging from situated knowledges. The process of mapping can facilitate exchange and catalyze the formation of shared identities and collective forms across differing lived experiences and positionalities. Mapping in this way, ethnographic endeavours become ‘weaving practices’ within crowded fields of knowledge-makers. Under this interventionist agenda of ‘knitting’ among affected yet fragmented populations, counter-mapping intends to transform the territories being represented.
