Porous cartographs: a way to understand the sense of spatiality in the Amazon

Abstract

This article focuses on Cartography (s) in a political perspective, problematizing the senses of spatiality that are in constant negotiation and disputes in mapping processes. Such reflections start from a poststructuralist theoretical-methodological perspective, from the point of view of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe’s Discourse Theory, weaving dialogues with postcolonial and decolonial studies, to additions of critical and humanistic cartography studies. Next, the aim is to perceive the impacts around universalization of a certain concept of language that conceals other Cartographies by denying the differences regarding the process of spatial representation. With these reflections it is suggested the recognition of a porous Cartography (and therefore pluralistic) as an attempt to legitimize and respect other practices of conceiving, representing and mapping the world.