Link to article: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10530-020-02325-2

En 1946, el gobierno argentino introdujo veinte castores (Castor Canadensis) en Tierra del Fuego (TdF) con la idea de implementar una industria de pieles en un territorio imaginado como vacío y estéril...

In 1946, Argentina introduced twenty beavers (Castor canadensis) to Tierra del Fuego (TdF) to promote the fur industry in a land deemed empty and sterile.

Cartographies are representations of discursive realities. As a discipline, it was professionalized at the beginning of the 19th century with the aim of knowing territories scientifically and against handicraft cartography (Wood, 2010). More recently, critical cartography aims to uncover the hidden powers that maps represent. In this line, the use of beavers as a symbol... Continue Reading →