![]() | Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine: How Occupied Landscapes Shape Scientific Knowledge Subjects: Cartography -- Political aspects -- Israel; Cartography -- Political aspects -- West Bank; Cartography -- Political aspects -- Gaza Strip; Land settlement -- West Bank -- Maps; National security -- Israel -- Maps; Arab-Israeli conflict -- Influence; Map r; Digital practices in social and political landscapes: Why two researchers can look at the same feature and see different things. 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 made in Palestine and Israel to show how social and political landscapes shape the practice of science and technology. How can two scientific cartographers look at the same geographic feature and see fundamentally different things? In part, Bier argues, because knowledge about the Israeli military occupation is shaped by the occupation itself. Ongoing injustices--including checkpoints, roadblocks, and summary arrests--mean that Palestinian and Israeli cartographers have different experiences of the landscape. Palestinian forms of empirical knowledge, including maps, continue to be discounted. |
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