This chapter examines how cartography has rapidly infiltrated the necropolitical landscape of the European migration crisis. Increasingly, maps that depict the precarious journeys of people traversing land and sea are disseminated through digital media, news platforms, European and national political press releases, and NGO projects. These cartographic representations also appear frequently in public campaigns, narratives, films, and artworks. The ubiquity of migration maps reveals an often overlooked but crucial relationship between cartography and contemporary visual culture. In this relationship, maps function both as ambivalent navigational tools and as evocative, symbolic images, warranting further academic inquiry. Like a map over troubled waters, this chapter explores the challenges, opportunities, and navigational frictions posed by "amphibious cartography," particularly in the context of forced migration, emphasizing the agency these representations evoke.

Like a Map Over Troubled Water: (Un)mapping the Mediterranean Sea’s Terraqueous Necropolitics

Laura Lo Presti
2023

Abstract

This chapter examines how cartography has rapidly infiltrated the necropolitical landscape of the European migration crisis. Increasingly, maps that depict the precarious journeys of people traversing land and sea are disseminated through digital media, news platforms, European and national political press releases, and NGO projects. These cartographic representations also appear frequently in public campaigns, narratives, films, and artworks. The ubiquity of migration maps reveals an often overlooked but crucial relationship between cartography and contemporary visual culture. In this relationship, maps function both as ambivalent navigational tools and as evocative, symbolic images, warranting further academic inquiry. Like a map over troubled waters, this chapter explores the challenges, opportunities, and navigational frictions posed by "amphibious cartography," particularly in the context of forced migration, emphasizing the agency these representations evoke.
2023
Navigation Beyond Vision
978-3-95679-565-7
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