Abstract

The authors write as two colleagues whose complementary courses on the geography of memory and spatial storytelling have sparked numerous conversations over the past few years. Through dialogue, they unravel how cartographers and geographers of memory might learn from one another. More specifically, they reflect on their respective disciplinary traditions and engagements in cartography and geographies of memory across three thematic areas: form, methods, and politics.

The authors then outline three thread lines – genre, mediation, and constellations – that run through their dialogue. In sum, they envision their contribution as a wider engagement with the politics and practices of geographical knowledge production offering three small insights: the authors bring the geographies of memory and critical cartography into teaching and research through dialogue, illustrate the value of collaboration and everyday conversation as a critical part of geographical knowledge production, and model an alternative form of academic publishing that expands the genre of academic writing.