Mapping and Politics in the Digital Age
This book explores the growing importance of mapping for global politics, power, and cooperation. As new technologies develop, mapping is seen as a real time and evolving process without fixed spatial relations. This book will interest readers within politics, geography, sociology, media, and digita...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Milton :
Taylor & Francis Group
2018.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Routledge Global Cooperation
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 cartographies
- Cartographic 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 known
- A 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 utopia
- Introduction: 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 world
- References
- 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
- The rise of the correlational machine
- Conclusion
- References
- 11. Map-i: Mercator revisited: From mapping modernity to postmodern creative cartographies
- Introduction
- Mapping Heaven and Earth: the visual turn
- Critical cartography in visual culture
- Mapping in art
- Mapping-i: Mercator Revisited
- Conclusion
- References
- 12. Mapping's intelligent agents
- Introduction
- Maps made for and by machines
- Machine mapping for the rest of us
- Cartography's intelligent agents
- Non-human mapping agents
- Mapping intelligently
- References
- Index.
