Cartography has a troubled history as a technology of power. The production and distribution of maps, often understood to be ideological representations that support the interests of their developers, have served as tools of colonization, imperialism, and global development, advancing Western notions of space and place at the expense of Indigenous peoples and other marginalized communities. But over the past two decades, these marginalized populations have increasingly turned to participat...

Maps play an indispensable role in indigenous peoples’ efforts to secure land rights in the Americas and beyond. Yet indigenous peoples did not invent participatory mapping techniques on their own; they appropriated them from techniques developed for colonial rule and counterinsurgency campaigns, and refined by anthropologists and geographers. Through a series of historical and contemporary examples from Nicaragua, Canada, and Mexico, this book explores the tension between military applica...

Everything flows from the money.We live in a world plagued by financial crises, soaring costs of living, political instability, and increasing societal division. But these problems aren't random. They all stem from one fundamental issue—the money is broken.What's the Problem? is a thought-provoking exploration of how fiat distorts everything—from the prices we pay to the systems we rely on. Through a powerful allegory, Joe Bryan exposes the root ca...