Geographies and Cartographies of Silence
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Abstract. The earth’s inhabited areas are uneven in the knowledge about peoples, landscapes and activities. The unevenness is attributed to the collection and dissemination of place-based knowledge by colonial powers, countries with long traditions of print knowledge, including the production of maps, and also the production of electronic information. We explore the concepts of terrae incognitae and the geographies and cartographies of silence about Khayelitsha, a township outside Cape Town that has more than a million residents. We examine the geographical knowledge using Google hyperlinks and Scholar, placemarks (DigiPlaces) and StreetView as well as information from travel sources. Reasons for the lacunae are discussed as well as working strategies to increase our awareness about the township’s human and environmental conditions.
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