Mapping Hybrid Spaces in Geopolitics: A Post-Representational and Experiential account
Abstract
Can the visual promotion of an academic event serve as an opportunity to implement a sequential, multidisciplinary map-making process? This article details the creative and scholarly exercise behind the map featured in the poster for the conference “Hybrid Spaces: Where Peace and War Overlap”, held in Rome in early February 2025. It begins by examining the epistemological assumptions explored in the preliminary stages of map-making - namely, the effort to map the hybrid nature of a political space while transcending the binary logic that has long dominated geography, one that maps have reflected throughout history. The discussion continues with an overview of the cartographic influences that inspired the creation of said map, as well as the rationale for selecting a particular political space as its focus.References
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