Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine
How Occupied Landscapes Shape Scientific Knowledge
- Hardcover
336 pages
- Release Date
30 June 2017
Summary
Digital practices in social and political landscapes- Why two researchers can look at the same feature and see differentthings.Maps are widely believed to be objective, and data-rich computer-made maps are iconic examples of digital knowledge. It is often claimed that digital maps, and rational boundaries, can solve political conflict. But in Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine, Jess Bier challenges the view that digital maps are universal and value-free. She examines the ways that maps are mad…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262036153 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262036150 |
| Author: | Jess Bier |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 30 June 2017 |
| Weight: | 708g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 17mm |
| Series: | Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine |
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Critics Review
…a penetrating analysis of mapping in occupied territory that gives us an on-the-ground look at how such spatial politics play out….Bier is thoughtful about how tools and data constrain geographic knowledge, and attentive to cartographers’ practices as ways of regaining control.
—Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences… a crucial reminder that the social construction of knowledge must always include spatiality and that geography is simultaneously material and epistemic.
—IsisAbout The Author
Jess Bier
Jess Bier is Assistant Professor of Urban Sociology at Erasmus University Rotterdam.
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