none 10.14361/9783839460412-008 Transcript Verlag Transcript Verlag 5471 133093549 3951603 3852616 2021121713510290000 10.14361 2026-06-02T09:55:24Z 2021-12-17T07:52:36Z 3 2703-1640 2703-1659 Christine Schranz Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst FHNW, Schweiz Maps as a Tool of Knowledge 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? 54 1 11 26 2021 11 05 2021 978-3-8376-6041-8 978-3-8394-6041-2 transcript Verlag Bielefeld, Germany https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 10.14361/9783839460412 https://www.transcript-open.de/isbn/6041 Ulrike Felsing https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3791-3316 Max Frischknecht 11 26 2021 11 05 2021 95 124 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 10.14361/9783839460412-008 https://www.transcript-open.de/doi/10.14361/9783839460412-008 https://www.inlibra.com/10.14361/9783839460412-008