Are all maps mental maps?

Axelsen, Bjørn; Michael, Jones

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“…Mental maps, also known as cognitive maps, were first used in migration research in the 1960s. Although arguably all maps are ‘mental’ in that their “design rests on the decisions of mapmakers” (Götz & Holmén, 2018, p. 157; see also Bjørn & Michael, 1987), mental maps refer not to fixed cartographic representations but to the imaginative ways individuals and groups understand spatial meaning in the world. Mental maps were initially employed in behavioural geography during the quantitative revolution, most commonly in urban planning and travel studies (Hannes et al, 2012).…”

Section: Understanding Multinational Migration Decision‐makingmentioning

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Mental mapping and multinational migrations: A geographical imaginations approach

Thompson

2020

Geographical Research

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Investigating migration decision‐making raises certain methodological issues because of the complexity of these practices and the diverse possibilities that exist for aspiring migrants. Migrants are increasingly engaging in multiple migrations, moving between various locations in three or more international destinations. Particularly in Asia, where short‐term temporary contracts are increasingly the norm for labour migrants, it becomes counter‐productive to analyse migration decision‐making as a movement from one place to another. Based on research undertaken in Metro Manila, the Philippines, with 48 Filipino nurses, this article addresses how to do research related to the multinational migration pathways that structure migration goals and aspirations through demonstrating the benefits and practicalities of mental mapping, a participatory visual method. By exploring the geographical imaginations of migrants and aspiring migrants, multinational pathways are shown to be planned for at the earliest stage of migration. Overall, the work reported here leads to the conclusion that researchers need to consider multiple migrations in more multidirectional and messy terms.

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Section: Understanding Multinational Migration Decision‐makingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mental mapping and multinational migrations: A geographical imaginations approach

Thompson

2020

Geographical Research

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“…The literature on land-cover/land-use classification generally subscribes to the notion of objective and universal classification schemes (see [34,35]). But the literature in critical geography has pointed out that classification schemes are necessarily social constructs, reflecting distinctions that are valued by the classifying agent [36][37][38][39][40]. A land-use map would therefore be more useful if it reflected categories of importance to multiple stakeholders [36,38,41].…”

Section: Classifying Shifting Cultivation Landscapesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…But the literature in critical geography has pointed out that classification schemes are necessarily social constructs, reflecting distinctions that are valued by the classifying agent [36][37][38][39][40]. A land-use map would therefore be more useful if it reflected categories of importance to multiple stakeholders [36,38,41]. The first step in land-use classification should therefore be to determine which classes are most pertinent to which social or policy concerns in a given context [42].…”

Section: Classifying Shifting Cultivation Landscapesmentioning

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Farms or Forests? Understanding and Mapping Shifting Cultivation Using the Case Study of West Garo Hills, India

Kurien

Lélé

Nagendra

2019

Land

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Attempts to study shifting cultivation landscapes are fundamentally impeded by the difficulty in mapping and distinguishing shifting cultivation, settled farms and forests. There are foundational challenges in defining shifting cultivation and its constituent land-covers and land-uses, conceptualizing a suitable mapping framework, and identifying consequent methodological specifications. Our objective is to present a rigorous methodological framework and mapping protocol, couple it with extensive fieldwork and use them to undertake a two-season Landsat image analysis to map the forest-agriculture frontier of West Garo Hills district, Meghalaya, in Northeast India. We achieve an overall accuracy of ~80% and find that shifting cultivation is the most extensive land-use, followed by tree plantations and old-growth forest confined to only a few locations. We have also found that commercial plantation extent is positively correlated with shortened fallow periods and high land-use intensities. Our findings are in sharp contrast to various official reports and studies, including from the Forest Survey of India, the Wastelands Atlas of India and state government statistics that show the landscape as primarily forested with only small fractions under shifting cultivation, a consequence of the lack of clear definitions and poor understanding of what constitutes shifting cultivation and forest. Our results call for an attentive revision of India’s official land-use mapping protocols, and have wider significance for remote sensing-based mapping in other shifting cultivation landscapes.

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“…What historically was developed as a key tool of exploit turned into a global scientific standard that both wittingly and unwittingly does damage by favoring certain types of knowledge collection and presentation and marginalizing or dismissing others (Bjorn and Jones, 1987). Throughout history, some "alternate" mapmakers have tried to adapt.…”

Section: Post-structuralist Approach: Power Dynamics and Production Omentioning

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Exploring the Nature of Narrative Analysis in Maps: the Case Study of the Georgia-South Ossetia Conflict

Minde¹

2015

NCETP

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Are all maps mental maps?

Cited by 16 publications

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Mental mapping and multinational migrations: A geographical imaginations approach

Mental mapping and multinational migrations: A geographical imaginations approach

Farms or Forests? Understanding and Mapping Shifting Cultivation Using the Case Study of West Garo Hills, India

Exploring the Nature of Narrative Analysis in Maps: the Case Study of the Georgia-South Ossetia Conflict

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