Mapping Crisis
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...
Сохранить в:
| Формат: | Online |
|---|---|
| Язык: | английский |
| Опубликовано: |
University of London Press
2021
|
| Предметы: | |
| Online-ссылка: | https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/46152 |
| Метки: |
Нет меток, Требуется 1-ая метка записи!
|
| _version_ | 1869531366542016512 |
|---|---|
| collection | Directory of Open Access Books |
| description | 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 use of mapping tools to quantify and assess the needs of those in crisis, including those affected by climate change and the wider neo-liberal agenda. Yet, while there has been a huge upsurge in the data produced around these issues, the representation of people remains questionable. Some have argued that representation has diminished in humanitarian crises as people are increasingly reduced to data points. In turn, this data has become ever more difficult to analyse without vast computing power, leading to a dependency on the old colonial powers to refine the data collected from people in crisis, before selling it back to them. This book brings together critical perspectives on the role that mapping people, knowledges and data now plays in humanitarian work, both in cartographic terms and through data visualisations, and questions whether, as we map crises, it is the map itself that is in crisis. |
| format | Online |
| id | doab-20.500.12854ir-37250 |
| institution | Directory of Open Access Books |
| language | eng |
| publishDate | 2021 |
| publishDateRange | 2021 |
| publishDateSort | 2021 |
| publisher | University of London Press |
| publisherStr | University of London Press |
| record_format | ojs |
| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-372502025-07-31T13:15:15Z Mapping Crisis Specht, Doug maps mapping data crisis cartography humanitarian work thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography::RGV Cartography, map-making and projections thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TV Agriculture and farming 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 use of mapping tools to quantify and assess the needs of those in crisis, including those affected by climate change and the wider neo-liberal agenda. Yet, while there has been a huge upsurge in the data produced around these issues, the representation of people remains questionable. Some have argued that representation has diminished in humanitarian crises as people are increasingly reduced to data points. In turn, this data has become ever more difficult to analyse without vast computing power, leading to a dependency on the old colonial powers to refine the data collected from people in crisis, before selling it back to them. This book brings together critical perspectives on the role that mapping people, knowledges and data now plays in humanitarian work, both in cartographic terms and through data visualisations, and questions whether, as we map crises, it is the map itself that is in crisis. 2021-02-10T14:43:41Z 2021-02-10T14:43:41Z 2021-01-14T04:36:48Z 2020 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/46152 9781912250332 9781912250370 9781912250561 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/37250 eng Critical Human Rights Studies open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/46152/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/46152/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/46152/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/46152/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/46152/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/46152/1/external_content.pdf University of London Press University of London Press 10.14296/920.9781912250387 10.14296/920.9781912250387 3fae60e1-9f6a-42ab-a7ee-73df8c57b4f2 9781912250332 9781912250370 9781912250561 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) KU Select 2020: HSS Frontlist Books University of London Press 276 open access |
| spellingShingle | maps mapping data crisis cartography humanitarian work thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography::RGV Cartography, map-making and projections thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TV Agriculture and farming Mapping Crisis |
| title | Mapping Crisis |
| title_full | Mapping Crisis |
| title_fullStr | Mapping Crisis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Mapping Crisis |
| title_short | Mapping Crisis |
| title_sort | mapping crisis |
| topic | maps mapping data crisis cartography humanitarian work thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography::RGV Cartography, map-making and projections thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TV Agriculture and farming |
| topic_facet | maps mapping data crisis cartography humanitarian work thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography::RGV Cartography, map-making and projections thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TV Agriculture and farming |
| url | https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/46152 |