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...
Category: Volume 14, Number 3, October 2015
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...
Modernity and the Silencing of Nature in Nineteenth-Century Maps of Bogotá
The article explores the environmental content of urban modernity in a nineteenth-century Latin American capital city through a comparative analysis of the cartographic...
Geografías en disputa: Los cambios en los discursos geográficos de la Argentina (1852-1905)
This paper discusses four key geographical works published between the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the context of competing proposals about...
Mapping Amerindian Captivity in Colonial Mosquitia
In 1764, Spanish colonel Luis Diez Navarro mapped the racially diverse British settlement at Black River on what is today the coast of...
Taking the Enlightenment Underground: Mining Spaces and Cartographic Representation in the Late Colonial Andes
Existing scholarship on Spanish America’s cartographic cultures largely overlooks mining maps. The Bourbon era, however, witnessed a proliferation in map production within the...
Introduction: Mapping Latin American Geographies
The origins of this special issue can be traced to conversations four years ago I had with then-JLAG editor, David Robinson. Those early...
Letter from the Editor
2015 has been a year of change for JLAG. After 13 years of sure-handed guidance from David Robinson, I took over as editor...
