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Conclusion: Invasion Mapped
Focusing on Vietnamese responses to biological warfare reveals that mapping and mobilities (of the geobody and body) were key to this warfare and responses to it. These two processes may seem to exist in tension: maps define and solidify, while mobility destabilizes and makes “all that is solid melts into air.” Yet, the two processes depend on each other. On the one hand, maps cannot be created without movement and exploration. There is the physical movement of the explorer and the material and symbolic flows that happen in knowledge networks. Airplanes have helped this mapping. On the other hand, understanding, and therefore engaging in, movement is very difficult if not impossible without some kind of map. These maps can be official, state created maps or they can be unofficial and personal, from individual mental maps to communal songlines to airplane routes. So mapping and movement are two complementary, intertwined processes.
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