On Cutting Forests and Avoiding Pasting: Heinrich Cotta’s Forest Maps

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serval:BIB_FD44C2A07124
Type
A part of a book
Publication sub-type
Chapter: chapter ou part
Collection
Publications
Title
On Cutting Forests and Avoiding Pasting: Heinrich Cotta’s Forest Maps
Title of the book
Pasted Topographies
Author(s)
Lisa Cronjäger
Publisher
arthistoricum.net-ART-Books, Heidelberg
ISBN
978-3-98501-239-8 (PDF))
Publication state
Published
Issued date
2023
Editor
Boskamp Ulrike, Braun Tabea, Buchholz Amrei, Kranen Annette
Volume
1
Series
Terrain. Studien zu topografischen Bildmedien
Pages
83-105
Language
english
Abstract
The paper examines historical forest maps from the 18th and 19th centuries. The focus is on the question of how the map’s notation systems and paper techniques transformed forest environments. Thus, the analysis highlights parallels between the practices of cutting, pasting, and subdividing paper and the way how forest parcels were organized in the forest. In fact, monocultures were a result of the cartographic techniques that were standardized in European forestry at the beginning of the 19th century. Consequently, it is worthwhile to analyze the mapmaking strategies of sustainable forestry in the context of widespread land-use conflicts in the early 19th century. Ultimately, the paper traces the epistemic violence enacted against subsistence practices in the forest that disrupted the goal of sustainable timber yields and homogeneous forest parcels on the map.
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Yes
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