I am, as researcher, a bricoleur, a maker of patchwork, a weaver of stories, an assembler of montage by which means I construct and convey meaning according to a narrative ethic
Yardley 2008
Cartography is not what cartographers tell us it is
Brian Harley
In general, the traditional base map is especially unsatisfactory to human geographers
Bunge 1966Prior to the map is the sketch, and prior to the sketch is the intention
Rekacewicz 2021
Cartographers played a significant role in making the world safe for
Denis Wood 2003
colonizers, mining conglomerates, and the military. We need to pay a
little back. There’s no saving the profession. It’s over. But as it fades away
there’s still an opportunity to leave a legacy we could contemplate without
shame. That can’t be beyond our reach.