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

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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 conception of maps and the practice of mapmaking since the early 1990s.Critical cartography is deeply informed by a poststructuralist critique of knowledge and truth.

Maps, no longer conceptualized as graphical images of reality where the only concern is the quality AEG FSS62800P Built-In Comfort Lift Dishwasher - White wh of the data, are powerful actors in the social construction of reality.URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1003281.