Mapping and politics in the digital age / edited by Pol Bargués-Pedreny, David Chandler and Elena Simon.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Mapping and politics in the digital age : an introduction / Pol Bargués-Pedreny, David Chandler and Elena Simon -- Contestations -- On the epistemology of maps and mapping : De La Cosa, Mercator and the making of spatial imaginaries / Luis Lobo-Guerrero -- From cartographic gaze to contestatory cartographies / Doug Specht and Anna Feigenbaum -- Horizontalism is a map / Nicholas Michelsen -- (Analog) mapping the knowable and ways of knowing : relational ontologies of chickens and ancestors in rural Sierra Leone / Caitlin Ryan -- Governance -- Mapping epidemics : securitisation, risk and geopolitics / Adam Ferhani and Gregory Stiles -- About terms and conditions : the Aadhar biometric identification programme as a mapping analytic / Harshavardhan Bhat -- Mapping as governance in an age of autonomic computing : technology, virtuality and utopia / Antoinette Rouvroy -- Mapping without the world and the poverty of digital humanitarians / Pol Bargués-Pedreny -- Imaginaries -- Post(mortem) cartographies : reframing the cartographic exhaustion in the age of mapping's excess / Laura Lo Presti -- Mapping beyond the human : correlation and the governance of effects / David Chandler -- Map-i : Mercator revisited : from mapping modernity to postmodern creative cartographies / Inge Panneels -- Mapping's intelligent agents / Shannon Mattern.

Throughout history, maps have been a powerful tool in the constitutive imaginary of governments seeking to define or contest the limits of their political reach. Today, new digital technologies have become central to mapping as a way of formulating alternative political visions. Mapping can also help marginalised communities to construct speculative designs using participatory practices. Mapping and Politics in the Digital Age explores how the development of new digital technologies and mapping practices are transforming global politics, power, and cooperation. The book brings together authors from across political and social theory, geography, media studies and anthropology to explore mapping and politics across three sections. Contestations introduces the reader to contemporary developments within mapping and explores the politics of mapping as a form of knowledge and contestation. Governance analyses mapping as a set of institutional practices, providing key methodological frames for understanding global governance in the realms of urban politics, refugee control, health crises and humanitarian interventions and new techniques of biometric regulation and autonomic computation. Imaginaries provides examples of future-oriented analytical frameworks, highlighting the transformation of mapping in an age of digital technologies of control and regulation. In a world conceived as without borders and fixed relations, new forms of mapping stress the need to rethink assumptions of power and knowledge. This book provides a sophisticated and nuanced analysis of the role ofmapping in contemporary global governance, and will be of interest to students and researchers working within politics, geography, sociology, media, and digital culture and technology. --Amazon.com