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New Orleans 2017
Register now for CLAG 2017 at CLAGconference.org! We are pleased to announce that our 2017 conference will be in New Orleans, once...
2015 Field Reports
Field reports detailing the research conducted by our 2015 CLAG Field Awardees are now available!
CLAG Book Series
CLAG collaborates with Springer to publish “Springer Briefs in Latin American Studies.” The series publishes compact volumes (50 to 125 pages) on...
“Mapitas,” Geografías Visualizadas and the Editorial Piedra Santa: A Mission to Democratize Cartographic Literacy in Guatemala
In the 1940s, Guatemala was in the midst of its Ten Years of Spring, and school teachers were enthusiastically creating materials to teach...
Mapping Flower Plantations in the Equatorial High Andes
Cut flowers have become the premier agricultural export of the high Andes over the last two and a half decades. The expansion of...
Reescrituras de una misma geografía: Tensiones entre el Instituto Geográfico Militar (Buenos Aires), el Map of Hispanic America (Nueva York) y la Carte du Monde au Millionième (París – Londres)
This paper examines the network of discussions, productions, and national cartographic projects organized to fulfill the need of having a map of the...
Revealing the ‘Lost World’: The American Geographical Society and the Mapping of Roraima during the 1930s
This paper considers a specific mapping exercise undertaken by cartographers in the American Geographical Society during the 1930s as part of a larger...
A Canal without a Zone: Conflicting Representations of the Panama Canal
By contrasting a National Geographic Society (NGS) map of the Panama Canal from 1912 with an earlier French map of the canal from...
Creating Wild Darién: Centuries of Darién’s Imaginative Geography and its Lasting Effects
Images, maps, and written texts together may constitute an imaginative geography and provide poignant evidence for how space can be socially constructed. In...