List of Figures
A Narrative Table of Contents
1. In the Rincón of the Sierra Juárez
2. The Decline and Fall of the Once August American Geographical
Society
3. “Red Mike” Edson’s U.S. Marine Patrols Up Nicaragua’s Río Coco
in 1928–1929 and the Development of the Small Wars Manual
4. The Birth of Indigenous Mapping In Canada
5. Maps, Guns, and Indigenous Peoples
6. From Territory to Property: Indigenous Mapping after the Cold
War
7. Counterinsurgency and the Rise of the “Warrior Scholars”
8. The AGS, the Bowman Expeditions, and the México Indígena
Project
Coda: Kill the Insurgent, Save the Man—Indigenous Peoples and Human
Terrain
A Note on Maps
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Joe Bryan, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Geography at the
University of Colorado Boulder. He is the author of numerous
articles, book chapters, and papers on participatory mapping and
indigenous rights that draw from his research with indigenous
communities in the United States, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Mexico.
He has also participated in mapping projects with indigenous
communities in the United States and Central America as an
independent consultant.
Denis Wood, PhD, is an independent scholar living in Raleigh, North
Carolina. He lectures widely and is the author of a dozen books and
over 150 papers. From 1974 to 1996, he taught in the School of
Design at North Carolina State University. In 1992, he curated the
Power of Maps exhibition for the Cooper-Hewitt National Museum of
Design (remounted at the Smithsonian in Washington, DC, in 1994),
for which he wrote the book The Power of Maps. His other books
include Rethinking the Power of Maps; Making Maps, Third Edition
(coauthored with John Krygier); and Weaponizing Maps (coauthored
with Joe Bryan).
"A gripping account of how academic research, military
intelligence, and indigenous mapping projects became embroiled in
the service of geopolitics. Bryan and Wood present an adventure
story of geopolitical struggle right in the heart of geographical
research institutions in the United States and indigenous
communities in the Americas. This book is necessary reading for
geographers and all social scientists interested in the ways in
which knowledge production and state interests merged in the late
20th century."--John Pickles, PhD, Earl N. Phillips Distinguished
Professor of International Studies, Department of Geography,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"'Map or be mapped,' the saying goes among those associated with
the wave of participatory mapping that began in the 1980s.
Weaponizing Maps gives this saying radically new meaning, with
equal parts analytic depth and political charge. Readers inclined
to use maps for causes of social justice will proceed fully
informed of the daunting forces they are up against--from the
counterinsurgency designs of the world’s most powerful military to
ostensibly progressive scholars who deploy the fine tradition of
participatory mapping toward dubious ends."--Charles R. Hale, PhD,
Director, LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections,
University of Texas at Austin
"Bold and confrontational. Bryan and Wood pull no punches in their
indictment of the creeping militarization of geography and the
once-respected American Geographical Society. The book's legacy
will be marked by the extent to which geographers rethink their
relationships with indigenous groups. It’s quite possible that
we’re seeing the next generation of critical thinking about mapping
in this book."--Jeremy Crampton, PhD, Department of Geography,
University of Kentucky
"Using Oaxaca as a case study of a global trend, the book makes a
compelling case that militarized colonial geographies seek to
replace Indigenous collective lands with a privatized Western
model, under the guise of both national security and Native
self-determination. But the book is also a rich example of
interdisciplinary inquiry, straddling the normative divides between
domestic and foreign colonialism, historical and contemporary
surveys, academic and activist analysis, and Indigenous and Left
discourse. It is essential for understanding land disputes of the
21st century, anywhere in Native America or the world."--Zoltán
Grossman, PhD, Professor of Geography and Native Studies, The
Evergreen State College -At times refreshingly polemical and
unapologetically critical, Bryan and Wood provide valuable
historical sketches that link the ideological and material
ramifications of maps on indigenous communities and trace the
development of property-based cartographic and geographic logics
during wartime. Though the México Indígena project serves as a
focal point, the authors deftly weave together the development of
the American Geographical Society, the rise of indigenous mapping
projects in the 1990s and their subsequent limitations, and the
relationship between dominant geographic practices and the
academic-military-industrial complex.--Great Plains Research,
10/18/2017ƒƒJoe and Denis trace how maps, over and over and over
again, perform vital discursive work, how they transform territory
into property, how they create facts, and how those facts seem to,
time and time again, serve the particular interest of the state
and/or capital at the expense of certain groups of people.--Human
Geography, 3/28/2017ƒƒRecommended. Upper-division undergraduates
and above.--Choice Reviews, 10/1/2015
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