Protesters using activist maps to navigate a besieged city during mass demonstrations…clandestine forces using maps to identify secret supply lines… gangs marking territory through special icons and symbols…Maps have been used not only to represent a territory or to help one get form point A to B, but also to subvert-resist-reappropriate and recreate existing territories.

In this axis of our work we examine how maps serve to create “territories in resistance”- that connect the rebellious but often isolated itineraries of groups attempting to cope with a difficult situation, or to resist policies and actors that are seen as oppressing them

“Maps create the territory” or so goes the mantra of critical cartography- in this axis we seek to use (and see how others have used) cartography to resist certain territories and create or suggest new ones.

As always, insurgency is a process- one map will never hold all the alternatives or strategies of resistance- the idea then maybe to share maps as a way to connect territories- creating ever denser layers of insurgent alliance…with the possibility of establishing ‘Autonomous Zones’ and situations of ‘Dual Power’ as a means of contesting the powers that be and their current economic and geopolitical restructuring of the globe in the image of their dominant discourses.