Ecopolitical Mapping: A Multispecies Research Methodology for Environmental Communication

Benoehr, Jens; Brinksma, Maike; Donihue, Ross; Faro, David; Lara, Antonia; Virik, Kara Lena; de Leon, Alejandro Ponce; Toro, Cristian; Gygli, Bastian; Romo, Daniel und Walther, Franziska E. (2022): Ecopolitical Mapping: A Multispecies Research Methodology for Environmental Communication. In: Revista Cs En Ciencias Sociales, Bd. 36: S. 317-343

Abstract

Ecopolitical Mapping is a methodology which seeks to map encounters of love and disaster between humans and their more-than-human surroundings. This methodology, first coined by a transdisciplinary group of artists and researchers in South Chile, unfolds through collective mapping sessions using an ecopolitical approach to trace the power relationships between different species-beings. In this research document, we unpack our engagements with this methodology in three different scales and territories: the Biobio Watershed (Chile), Berlin City (Germany) and Europe (Continent). Each case presented a strong environmental communication component, which ended up with the translation of the stories of the encounters into illustrated maps. The methodological approach proposed here is intimate, political and situated. The map evolves from a supposed politically neutral artifact into a tool for environmental education, communication, and activism. We offer the notion and approach, hoping that this methodology can be practiced and refined by other humans, allies of the tentacle kinship.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Fakultät: Biologie
• Themengebiete: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik > 570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie
• ISSN: 2011-0324
• Sprache: Englisch