Shifts in Mapping Maps as a Tool of Knowledge

• अन्य लेखक: Schranz, Christine (संपादक)
• स्वरूप: इलेक्ट्रोनिक पुस्तक अध्याय
• भाषा: अंग्रेज़ी
• प्रकाशित: Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2021
• श्रृंखला: Sozial- und Kulturgeographie 54
• विषय: Human geography; Urban communities; Map; Mapping; Epistemology; Aesthetically Critical Practice; Geopolitics; Media; Society; City; Social Geography; Cultural Geography; Urban Studies; Design; Geography
• ऑनलाइन पहुंच: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

सारांश

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?

भौतिक वर्णन

1 electronic resource (294 p.)

आईएसबीएन

9783839460412
9783837660418

अभिगमन

Open Access