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Call for paper: Cartographies of Crises: Mapping Conflict, Disaster, and Uncertainty


Gotha, Germany
Organisation: Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences and University of Erfurt, Centre for Transcultural Studies / Perthes Collection
The Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Prague, Czechia) and the University of Erfurt, Centre for Transcultural Studies / Perthes Collection (Gotha, Germany), invite paper proposals for a two-day international workshop dedicated to the history and theory of crisis mapping from the 19th to the 21st century.
Contributions addressing, but not limited to, the following themes are invited:
  • Maps as analytical tools and instruments of power and governance: crisis management, political argumentation, propaganda, real-time mapping during ongoing crises and disasters, and the role of state and institutional actors;
  • Visual languages and cartographic conventions: standardisation, symbols, techniques of representation;
  • Counter-mapping and grassroots practices: non-institutional actors, communities, and individuals as producers of crisis cartographies; maps as tools of resistance, negotiation, and contestation;
  • Methodological and comparative perspectives: Historical GIS, Digital Humanities, digital mapping projects, transnational approaches, and studies of non-Western cartographic traditions.

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