Shifts in Mapping : Maps as a Tool of Knowledge
(eBook)

English

10.1515/9783839460412

Open Access https://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2 unrestricted online access star

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?

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

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In English.