Shifts in Mapping
| Přispěvatelé: | Schranz, Christine |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
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Mapping Epistemology Aesthetically Critical Practice Geopolitics Media Society City Social Geography Cultural Geography Urban Studies Design Geography thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences Geography Environment Planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups communities and identities::JBSD Urban communities |
| Druh dokumentu: | book |
| DOI: | 10.14361/9783839460412 |
| Popis: | 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? |
| Databáze: | OAPEN Library |
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