Mapping crisis : : participation, datafication and humanitarianism in the age of digital mapping / / edited by Doug Specht.

The digital age has thrown questions of representation, participation and humanitarianism back to the fore, as machine learning, algorithms and big data centres take over the process of mapping the subjugated and subaltern. Since the rise of Google Earth in 2005, there has been an explosion in the u...

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Place / Publishing House:London : : University of London Press,, 2020.
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvii, 259 pages) :; illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : mapping in times of crisis
  • 1. Mapping as tacit representations of the colonial gaze
  • 2. The failures of participatory mapping : a mediational perspective
  • 3. Knowledge and spatial production between old and new representation : a conceptual and operative framework
  • 4. Data colonialism, surveillance capitalism and drones
  • 5. The role of data collection, mapping and analysis in the reproduction of refugeeness and migration discourses : reflections from the Refugee Spaces project
  • 6. Dying in the technosphere: an intersectional analysis of European migration maps
  • 7. Now the totality maps us : mapping climate migration and surveilling movable borders in digital cartographies
  • 8. The rise of the citizen data scientist
  • 9. Modalities of united statelessness.