ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I explore recent trends in the cartographic humanities that have developed as part of emergent interdisciplinary scholarship in the fields of spatial anthropology and spatial humanities. Sketching a cross-current of ideas that have begun to coalesce around the concept of ‘deep mapping’, this chapter argues that rather than attempting to outline a set of defining characteristics and ‘deep’ cartographic features, a more instructive approach is to pay closer attention to the multivalent ways deep mapping is performatively put to work. Casting a critical eye over the developing discourse of deep mapping, it is argued that what deep mapping is cannot be reduced to the otherwise a-spatial and a-temporal fixity of the ‘deep map’. In this respect, as an undisciplined survey of this increasing expansive field of study and practice, this chapter explores the ways in which deep mapping can engage broader discussion around questions of spatial anthropology.
