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Mapping and Politics in the Digital Age
Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Routledge Global Cooperation SerPublisher: Milton : Routledge, 2018Description: 1 Online-Ressource (247 pages)ISBN:- 9781351124478
- 9781351124461
- 9781351124454
- 9781351124485
- 320.12
- GA102.3
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PPN: PPN: 1916233643Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; Mapping and politics in the digital age: An introduction; Introduction; Contestations; Governance; Imaginaries; Structure of the book; References; PART I: Contestations; 1. On the epistemology of maps and mapping: De la Cosa, Mercator and the making of spatial imaginaries; De la Cosa's mappa mundi; Mercator's world map; The role of maps in coding, decoding and recoding of planetary spaces; Maps and the simulacrum of order, power and governance; References.
2. From the cartographic gaze to contestatory cartographiesCartographic gaze; Contestatory cartography; Participatory mapping; Limitations of contestatory cartography; Conclusion; References; 3. Horizontalism is a map; Introduction; Horizontal maps and digital rebellion; Political ambiguities of horizontalism; Unmapping horizontalism?; Conclusion; References; 4. (Analog) mapping the knowable and ways of knowing: Relational ontologies of chickens and ancestors in rural Sierra Leone; Introduction: 'Not a real ceremony'; Method; The maps.
'Epistemic disobedience' and (analog) mapping the knowable and how it is knownA plea for chickens as maps in a digital age; References; PART II: Governance; 5. Mapping epidemics: Securitisation, risk and geopolitics; Introduction; Maps and the securitisation of health; Health 'risk'?; Mapping Ebola and the (re)production of risk; Conclusion; References; 6. About 'terms and conditions': The Aadhar biometric identification programme as a mapping analytic; Introduction; Triage: the act of sorting; Glitches in the mapping regime; Constructing the platform; Subtraction; Conclusion; References.
7. Mapping as governance in an age of autonomic computing: Technology, virtuality and utopiaIntroduction: mapping and governing the virtual; Autonomic computing as governance; Towards a statistical (or actuarial) mapping of the 'real'; The need for critical appraisal of statistical (or actuarial) mapping; Technology, virtuality, utopia; Conclusion; References; 8. Mapping without the world and the poverty of digital humanitarians; Introduction; Deconstructing maps to rescue 'the remainders'; Traveling with non-representative maps; Mapping 'without the world' in humanitarian crises.
Conclusion: the power to flatten the worldReferences; PART III: Imaginaries; 9. Post(mortem) cartographies: Reframing the cartographic exhaustion in the age of mapping's excess; Cartographic overloads; Mapping deadly: cartographic exhaustions and the destructive excess; Geographic representations on the verge of life and death; Mapping lively: from cartography to map studies; Resituating post(mortem) cartographies; References; 10. Mapping beyond the human: Correlation and the governance of effects; Introduction; Mapping and the governance of effects; Big data, objects and relations.
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