" Carefully distinguishing between big data and open data, and exploring various data
infrastructures, Kitchin vividly illustrates how the data landscape is rapidly changing and …

This report focuses on the growing interest in the relationship between maps, narratives and
metanarratives. Following a brief historical contextualization of these relationships, this …

Despite the popular impression of prisons and other carceral spaces as disconnected from
broader social systems, they are traversed by various circulations that reach within and …

This paper considers the emerging phenomenon of crowdsourced cartography in relation to
ideas about the organisation of contemporary knowledge production in capitalist societies …

Geographers interested in the social and political implications of the geoweb have recently
turned their attention to its attendant “knowledge politics”. Such work looks at the processes …

The long superficial engagement of literary scholars with the cartographic lexicon (under the
label of literary 'spatial turn') has led to a need for a 'recartographization'of the field. This …

Abstract This Themed Intervention consists of short papers written by nine plenary speakers
at the 2024 Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British …

In this third report, I focus on cognitive cartography in order to examine how the historical
division between empiricist and critical approaches in cartography has shifted recently. I do …

Academic cartographers consistently expressed an interest in the history of map form
(design and practice), at least until the 1980s. This essay reviews the formation of academic …

This book argues for a theory of mobile map**, a situated and spatial approach towards
researching how everyday digital mobile media practices are bound up in global systems of …