Mapping Security

Writing the Trace of Nation

Authors

  • Bruce Erikson

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25071/2292-4736/40403

Abstract

I’m sitting at home, resolved to write a small reflection on leisurely movements, mapping and the (knowledge) production of Canada, probably one that will start with an anecdote out of Where is Here? (Morantz, 2002), Rick Morantz’s journalistic book about the maps that make Canada.

References

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Day, R. (2000). Multiculturalism and the History of Canadian Diversity. Toronto: University of Toronto. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442677449

Derrida, J. (1974). Of Grammatology. (G. Spivak, Trans.) Baltimore: Johns Hopkins. (Original work published 1967).

Harley, J. (1992). Deconstructing the map. In. T. Barnes & J. Duncan (Eds), Writing worlds: Discourse, text and metaphor in the representation of landscape. New York: Routledge. (pp. 231-247).

Morantz, A. (2002). Where is Here? Canada’s maps and the stories they tell. Toronto: Penguin.

Sparke, M. (1998). A map that roared and an original atlas: Canada, cartography and the narration of nation. The Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 88(3). pp. 463- 495. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/0004-5608.00109

Spivak, G. (1974). Translator’s preface. In J. Derrida, Of Grammatology. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins. pp. ix-lxxxix

Published

2005-01-01

How to Cite

Erikson, B. (2005). Mapping Security: Writing the Trace of Nation. UnderCurrents: Journal of Critical Environmental Studies, 14, 11–13. https://doi.org/10.25071/2292-4736/40403

Issue

Vol. 14 (2005): Nomad

Section

Academic

License

Copyright (c) 2005 Bruce Erikson

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