The Politics of Mapping. Bernard Debarbieux
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SCIENCES
Geography and Demography, Field Director – Denise Pumain
Political Geography, Subject Head – Frédéric Giraut
The Politics of Mapping
Coordinated by
Bernard Debarbieux
Irène Hirt
First published 2022 in Great Britain and the United States by ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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ISBN 978-1-78945-067-5
ERC code:
SH2 Institutions, Values, Environment and Space
SH2_1 Political systems, governance
SH2_11 Human, economic and social geography
SH2_12 GIS, spatial analysis; big data in political, geographical and legal studies
Introduction
Bernard DEBARBIEUX and Irène HIRT
University of Geneva, Switzerland
I.1. Theoretical and conceptual debates
The focus on the relationship between mapping1, on the one hand, and politics or power, on the other hand, is certainly not new, or even recent. For centuries, particularly in the Christian, Chinese and Arab-Muslim worlds, the people who commissioned maps (princes, ministers or heads of state) and the cartographers clearly believed that maps must, first and foremost, serve the objectives of knowledge and the control of territories by sovereigns, armies and state administrations.
In the Western world, the proximity between maps and political power became less visible around the 18th century, when the discourse among cartographers began to focus on the techniques of production, the accuracy of the representation and the scientific