Shifts in mapping

Buch

  • Titel: Shifts in mapping : maps as a tool of knowledge / Christine Schranz (ed.)
  • Reihe: Social and cultural geography
  • Person(en): Schranz, Christine [Herausgeber*in]
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Originalsprache: Englisch
  • Umfang: 293 Seiten : Illustrationen ; 24 cm, 530 g
  • Erschienen: Bielefeld : transcript, 2021
  • ISBN/Preis: 978-3-8376-6041-8 Broschur : EUR 39.00 (DE) (freier Preis), EUR 39.00 (AT) (freier Preis), CHF 47.60 (freier Preis)
  • Schlagwörter: Anthropogeografie ; Sozialgeografie ; Kartografie ; Visualisierung ; Konferenzschrift / 2021 / Basel
  • Anmerkungen: "This publication appears on the occasion of the Symposium "Shifts in Mapping" (20/21 January 2021), an event of the FHNW Academy of Art and Design Basel, and the Exhibition "Shaping the Invisible World" (March 3 until May 25 2021), at HeK (House of Electronic Arts Basel)"
  • Signatur: LERNEN und ARBEITEN > Geografie und Geschichte
  • Bak 0 SHIF•/21 Englisch Bak 0

Inhalt: 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?