TY - BOOK ID - 96669130 TI - Shifts in mapping : maps as a tool of knowledge PY - 2021 SN - 3839460417 3837660419 PB - Bielefeld transcript Verlag DB - UniCat KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography. KW - Aesthetically Critical Practice. KW - City. KW - Cultural Geography. KW - Design. KW - Epistemology. KW - Geography. KW - Geopolitics. KW - Mapping. KW - Media. KW - Social Geography. KW - Society. KW - Urban Studies. KW - Map; Mapping; Epistemology; Aesthetically Critical Practice; Geopolitics; Media; Society; City; Social Geography; Cultural Geography; Urban Studies; Design; Geography KW - Cartography KW - Digital mapping. KW - Internet in cartography. KW - Computer cartography KW - Computer mapping KW - Digitized mapping KW - Cartography, Primitive KW - Chartography KW - Map-making KW - Mapmaking KW - Mapping (Cartography) KW - Mathematical geography KW - Surveying KW - Map projection KW - Maps 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 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:96669130 AB - 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 conception of a geopolitical space? ER -