title: Mapping and politics in the digital age
abstract: Mapping has always been a powerful tool in the constitutive imaginary of regimes of governance, from pre-modern cosmologies to modernity’s wars of development and colonisation and the postmodern questioning of the nature–culture divide. The power to visualise the location of entities in time and space has been a vital technology of political claim-making and contestation. Today, new digital technologies have become central to mapping as a practice of formulating alternative political visions: fr