Shifts in mapping: maps as a tool of knowledge

Depicting the world, territory, and geopolitical realities involves a high degree of interpretation and imagination. It is never neutral. Cartography originated in ancient times to represent the world and to enable circulation, communication, and economic exchange. Today, IT companies are a driving...

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Weitere Verfasser: Schranz, Christine 1973- (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Bielefeld transcript 2021
Schriftenreihe:Social and cultural geography [54]
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Zusammenfassung:Depicting the world, territory, and geopolitical realities involves a high degree of interpretation and imagination. It is never neutral. Cartography originated in ancient times to represent the world and to enable circulation, communication, and economic exchange. Today, IT companies are a driving force in this field and change our view of the world; how we communicate, navigate, and consume globally. Questions of privacy, authorship, and economic interests are highly relevant to cartography's practices. So how to deal with such powers and what is the critical role of cartography in it? How might a bottom-up perspective (and actions) in map-making change conception of a geopolitical space?
Beschreibung:Erscheint als Open Access bei De Gruyter
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (295 Seiten)
ISBN:9783839460412
3839460417
DOI:10.14361/9783839460412