Feeling Cartography

Strategic Place-Making and Public Scientific Outreach in the American Chemical Society’s National Historic Chemical Landmarks Program

“…Later, however, a successful landmark find elicited in this research team member the sense that they had become more firmly configured within the community of chemical sciences than they might have been if they had not faced an antecedent of hardship and failure. The place-oriented struggle itself—one that the ambiguous NHCLP discourses arranged them to perform and that, it could be argued, echoes the trails of scientific training and research—invited entry into a mode of witnessing made possible by what Cram (2016) identified as a “feeling cartography” wherein one’s “emotional landscape” merges with and thereby emphasizes the production of place and its ideological investments (p. 141).…”

Inventing local rhetorics: Towards a topographic critical praxis

“…Thus far, following Chirindo's suggestion, I have pluralized and mobilized the local to spatialize rhetoric and I have centered embodiment and emplacement as the primary modes to enable a rhetorical-topographic praxis. Rhetoric scholars interested in spatializing rhetoric have also already engaged in a number of mapping methodologies and practices such as rhetorical cartographies (Greene and Kuswa 2012;Hayes 2016;Rai and Druschke 2018), feeling cartographies (Cram 2016), countermapping/remapping to resist colonial cartographies (Na'puti 2019), mapping and countermapping as a method of social movement framing (Ewalt 2011) and more (Walsh and Boyle 2017;Lewis 2019).…”