TOWARDS A POSTSTRUCTURALIST PERSPECTIVE ON THE MAKING AND THE POWER OF MAPS. A RESPONSE TO BALL AND PETSIMERIS

Towards a Poststructuralist Perspective on the Making and the Power of Maps. A Response to Ball and Petsimeris

This paper takes the recent article "Mapping Urban Social Divisions" by BALL and PETSIMERIS, published in FQS, as a starting point for discussing the role of maps for visualizing knowledge and as an object of research in the social sciences.The paper draws on the theoretical Anti-Fatigue Mats approach of "critical cartography" which changed the con

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Children with trisomy 21 are a group at risk for severe COVID-19: Case reports from a COVID-19 treatment unit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Trisomy 21 (Down syndrome) is a chromosomal disorder associated with humoral and cellular immunologic impairments among other systemic manifestations.It occurs at a frequency of Storage Bench 1 in 750 live births.There are increasing reports of children with Down syndrome presenting signs of severe COVID-19.The literature from Africa on pediatric C

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