LA PROPIEDAD DEL PARAISO. COMUNIDADES DIGITALES Y CARTÓGRAFOS AFICIONADOS

Abstract

[EN] This paper studies online communities who share an interest in having and define a part of the world, a wide range that combines protest and social policies, solidarity interests and artistic projects. Today the territory is no longer owned by public administrations, geographers and urban planners. The democratization of techniques to search the place, has made possible a new generation of fans cartographers, flooding the network with collaborative, free and editable maps. During the last decades we have studied the complex relations of people with space living in extreme conditions: exiles, migrations, dangerous borders, indigenous peoples and land rights. It seems that this second decade of the century is also interested in the ethnography of the place, not only for how people live, perceive, and invest, but also for the survival of the oceans, the survival of endangered species, defending human rights in Iran, or the associations that share gardens and jobs. Maps fascinate us because they tell stories. The bottom-up currents facilitate multiple narrators, and creating communities that foster exchanges and reaffirm the authority of individual efforts outside the institution and the larger companies. Faced with the maps that have defined the world for decades, now each are the center of our own cartographic worlds: all distances are measured from the point where we are, and from there the whole reorganizes and changes of scale . Planning the world is a way to appropriate it, and the fact it develops around us makes us protagonists of history we have. It may be this new anthropocentrism 2.0 which favors many of these amateur communities to map and study the world share an ecological, social or joint interest. These new representations of the world beyond the territory defined by adding multiple layers of meaning. If the maps so far have told the story of how the world gained its appearance, it is likely that collaborative neocartography tell us the stories of the lives and interests of its inhabitants. ...