Alan Dix Snip!t: ‘Print this Map. Get off the Internet. Take to the Streets': 5 of the Left’s Best Mapping Moments

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Mapping and activism have a long history. In the final d... Commune the military advances of the Versailles army wer... basis as the revolutionaries sought to keep them at bay.... nearly 100 years and the Situationists were once again m... altogether

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Mapping and activism have a long history. In the final days of the Paris Commune the military advances of the Versailles army were mapped on a daily basis as the revolutionaries sought to keep them at bay. Fast forward nearly 100 years and the Situationists were once again mapping Paris in altogether more abstract ways – this time to resist the advances of the modern city. In more recent times we’ve seen the rudimentary mapping of protest camps in Madrid, New York and Hong Kong. With these in mind, here are five more seminal cartographic moments worth remembering:

HTML	Mapping and activism have a long history. In the final days of the Paris Commune<a href="http://socks-studio.com/2014/01/29/mapping-the-bloody-week-the-last-days-of-the-paris-commune-in-a-cartographic-narrative/"> the military advances of the Versailles army were mapped</a> on a daily basis as the revolutionaries sought to keep them at bay. Fast forward nearly 100 years and the<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situationist_International"> Situationists</a> were once again mapping Paris in altogether more abstract ways – this time to resist the advances of the modern city. In more recent times we’ve seen the rudimentary mapping of protest camps in<a href="https://archivosol15m.wordpress.com/pancartas/dibujomapasol/"> Madrid</a>,<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/10/05/nyregion/how-occupy-wall-street-turned-zuccotti-park-into-a-protest-camp.html"> New York</a> and<a href="http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1659236/mapping-out-protest-sites-history"> Hong Kong</a>. With these in mind, here are five more seminal cartographic moments worth remembering:

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Mapping and activism have a long history. In the final days of the Paris Commune<a href="http://socks-studio.com/2014/01/29/mapping-the-bloody-week-the-last-days-of-the-paris-commune-in-a-cartographic-narrative/"> the military advances of the Versailles army were mapped</a> on a daily basis as the revolutionaries sought to keep them at bay. Fast forward nearly 100 years and the<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situationist_International"> Situationists</a> were once again mapping Paris in altogether more abstract ways – this time to resist the advances of the modern city. In more recent times we’ve seen the rudimentary mapping of protest camps in<a href="https://archivosol15m.wordpress.com/pancartas/dibujomapasol/"> Madrid</a>,<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/10/05/nyregion/how-occupy-wall-street-turned-zuccotti-park-into-a-protest-camp.html"> New York</a> and<a href="http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1659236/mapping-out-protest-sites-history"> Hong Kong</a>. With these in mind, here are five more seminal cartographic moments worth remembering:

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