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Shifts in Mapping: Maps as a Tool of Knowledge
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Abstract 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 ... mehr
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 the conception of a geopolitical space?... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Erkenntnistheorie; Medien; Gesellschaft; Sozialgeographie; Kulturgeographie; Geographie; Design; Geopolitik; Kartographie; Stadtforschung
Klassifikation
Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeographie
Freie Schlagwörter
Map; Mapping; Aesthetically Critical Practice; City; Urban Studies
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2021
Verlag
transcript Verlag
Erscheinungsort
Bielefeld
Seitenangabe
294 S.
Schriftenreihe
Sozial- und Kulturgeographie
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839460412
ISSN
2703-1659
ISBN
978-3-8394-6041-2
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet