TY  - GEN
AU  - Schranz,Christine
AU  - Schranz,Christine
TI  - Shifts in Mapping : Maps as a Tool of Knowledge
SN  - 9783839460412
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Bielefeld
PB  - transcript Verlag
KW  - Human geography
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Urban communities
KW  - Map
KW  - Mapping
KW  - Epistemology
KW  - Aesthetically Critical Practice
KW  - Geopolitics
KW  - Media
KW  - Society
KW  - City
KW  - Social Geography
KW  - Cultural Geography
KW  - Urban Studies
KW  - Design
KW  - Geography
N1  - Open Access
N2  - 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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UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/75027
ER  -