Indigenous Mapping and Mobile Spaces: The Sites and Sounds of Somali Encounters with Imperial Cartography in Eastern Africa.

Cartography has long been defined through the opposition of fixity and mobility. Imperial cartography in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in eastern Africa worked to affix populations to particular territories and vilified practices of mobility as aterritorial and uncivilised. Mobility, howeve...

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Published in:Imago Mundi Vol. 77; no. 1; pp. 61 - 79
Main Author: MacArthur, Julie
Format: Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jan2025
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