From the Cartographic Fringes: Map Mobilizations and the Urban

This chapter adopts the perspective of the mobility and humanities approach, which has emerged in the last few years, with the aim of reflect- ing on the mobilization of maps as a form of socio-spatial intervention originating from the urban, social and emotional margins. What could the mobility and humanities approach contribute to the understanding of maps and mappings that are activated to fight inequalities or to produce solidarities on an urban scale? The exchange between mobility studies, the humanities and cartographic theory will provide the basis for a mobile consideration of maps and cartographic activism as well as a starting point to propose some cartographic variations of the concept of mobilization. Starting from a reworking of the concept of mobilization, I present four case studies that exemplify the multiple ways in which cartographic imagery and objects are put in motion as actors that hold the potential to promote change in the urban realm.