Category: Pagmamapa sa Kapuluan
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Road ecologies and transport geographies
[T]he study of mobility and transport reveals existing power relations and offers opportunities to challenge those relations. Julie Cidell, José Acosta-Córdova, Andrea Pimentel Rivera & Ricardo Zapata, “Critical geographies of transport and mobility”, 2021, p. 2 Transport geographies has a long history that predated the arrival of traditional conveyances and…
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‘Hazardous’ cartographies
There is a map for everything. Even in identifying hazards and attendant vulnerabilities in communities. During Midyear Term 2023, the UP Department of Geography conducts an extension program through its Geography 192 course (Field Methods in Geography). The program was instituted in the 1990s and involves faculty and undergraduate students…
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Meaning-making in community cartographies
Participatory mapping has proven to be effective in generating the diversity of how different local communities view disasters, vulnerabilities, and other concepts related to DRR. Emmanuel Garcia, “Of Disasters and Participation”, 2021 Maps started out from the graphic representation of the earth. They were (and continue to be) rendered as…
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The precarious lives of human rights defenders
“Collectively produced by the efforts of ordinary people rather than by a political class of professionals following pregiven political strictures … maps … serve as a testament to the political potentials of those from below … to create a world where they can finally fit.” Linda Quiquivix, “Art of War,…
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This bird has flown
How do scientists survey the number of birds in a given area? In a highly cited paper by Ben Vallejo, Alexander Aloy and Perry Ong (2009) on bird mapping, they employed several approaches and methodologies in mapping urban birds in Metro Manila. One approach involved a lot of fast-paced walking:…
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The river runs
I am haunted by waters. Norman MacLean, A River Runs Through It, 1976 Can rivers tell stories? In 2010, Jane Bennett published Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things where she advocates for a posthumanist imagination. Non-humans have active agency within an assemblage. Perhaps that line of thinking can be…
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The spooky
With November comes ‘All saints day’ and ‘All souls’ day’ — declared holidays to allow Filipinos to properly pay respect to their dead. The mass exodus of Filipinos to their provincial homes at this time of the year created a semi-deserted city in the metropolis. Commercial stores are festooned with…
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