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oapen-20.500.12657-521302022-01-25T10:57:14Z Shifts in Mapping Schranz, Christine Map Mapping Epistemology Aesthetically Critical Practice Geopolitics Media Society City Social Geography Cultural Geography Urban Studies Design Geography bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFS Social groups::JFSG Urban communities 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? 2021-12-17T17:44:10Z 2021-12-17T17:44:10Z 2021 book ONIX_20211217_9783839460412_53 9783839460412 9783837660418 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/52130 eng Sozial- und Kulturgeographie application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International 9783839460412.pdf transcript Verlag transcript Verlag 10.14361/9783839460412 10.14361/9783839460412 b30a6210-768f-42e6-bb84-0e6306590b5c 9783839460412 9783837660418 transcript Verlag 54 294 Bielefeld open access
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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?
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