Mediterranean Crossings: The Politics of an Interrupted Modernity, Iain Chambers, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008.
Though on land it seems possible to stake out territory, claim a static point of view and amass maps, boundaries, and frameworks that coalesce around them, such apparent fixity is impossible at sea. The sea is “an intricate site of [...]
Factory Girl: Dora the Explorer and the Dirty Secrets of the Global Industrial Economy by Lois Leveen
Throughout her adventures, Dora enjoys an unusual geographic mobility, crossing landscapes but never distinct borders, always returning home rather than staying somewhere new. Her animated domain is devoid of references to social class, labor, or a currency-based economy. 
But [...]
GEIST Magazine: Invisible City
John Paskievich has been photographing the North End of Winnipeg for more than thirty years, and the body of work that he has built up in that time is a revelation of the particularity of people and place… The North End was a culture of cultures long before multiculturalism was a national [...]
This is a map of mostly fictional Arabian countries that appear in the “sheikhs and desert love” genre of romance novels. Until recently I had no idea these books even existed, but thanks to Christy McCullough’s article in the Summer 07 issue of Bitch Magazine, my latest pop culture crush is on romance novels dedicated [...]