Edited by
Bernard Debarbieux, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Irène Hirt, University of Geneva, Switzerland
ISBN : 9781789450675
Publication Date : June 2022
Hardcover 274 pp
165.00 USD
Co-publisher
Maps and mapping are fundamentally political. Whether they are authoritarian, hegemonic, participatory or critical, they are most often guided by the desire to have control over space, and always involve power relations. This book takes stock of the knowledge acquired and the debates conducted in the field of critical cartography over some thirty years.
The Politics of Mapping includes analyses of recent semiological, social and technological innovations in the production and use of maps and, more generally, geographical information. The chapters are the work of specialists in the field, in the form of a thematic analysis, a theoretical essay, or a reflection on a professional, scientific or militant practice. From mapping issues for modern states to the digital and big data era, from maps produced by Indigenous peoples or migrant–advocacy organizations in Europe, the perspectives are both historical and contemporary.
1. The Map as a Legitimate Space: Cartography as a Language, a Stage and an Issue, Jacques Lévy.
2. Cartography and Spatial Production of Society, Franco Farinelli.
3. Farewell to Maps: Reformulating Critical Cartography in the Digital Age, Pierre Gautreau and Matthieu Noucher.
4. Mapping and Participation in the topos and chora Test, Federica Burini.
5. The Cartographic Factory of Modern States, Bernard Debarbieux.
6. Statistical Cartography and International Governance in the Age of Big Data, Hy Dao.
7. Indigenous Mapping: Reclaiming Territories, Decolonizing Knowledge, Irène Hirt.
8. Chorematic Representations in Participatory Processes of Territorial Projects, Sylvie Lardon.
9. National Territorial Prospective Maps, Anne Bailly.
10. Making Maps to Fight Unjust Migration Policies, Olivier Clochard.
Bernard Debarbieux is Professor of Cultural and Political Geography at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. His research focuses on the spatial dimension of social imaginaries, including the role of maps in the configuration of these imaginaries, and associated social collectives.
Irène Hirt is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. Her research focuses on participatory and decolonial methods, processes of territorial reappropriation by Indigenous peoples across the Americas and mapping in Indigenous contexts.
