Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine: How Occupied Landscapes Shape Scientific Knowledge

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Jess Bier (Postdoctoral Researcher, Erasmus University Rotterdam)

Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine

How Occupied Landscapes Shape Scientific Knowledge

Jess Bier (Postdoctoral Researcher, Erasmus University Rotterdam)

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MIT Press
30 June 2017

Middle Eastern history; Geopolitics; Cartography, map-making & projections

Series: Inside Technology

Digital practices in social and political landscapes- Why two researchers can look at the same feature and see differentthings.

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.

Bier examines three representative cases of population, governance, and urban maps. She analyzes Israeli population maps from 1967 to 1995, when Palestinian areas were left blank; Palestinian state maps of the late 1990s and early 2000s, which were influenced by Israeli raids on Palestinian offices and the legacy of British colonial maps; and urban maps after the Second Intifada, which show how segregated observers produce dramatically different maps of the same area. The geographic production of knowledge, including what and who are considered scientifically legitimate, can change across space and time. Bier argues that greater attention to these changes, and to related issues of power, will open up more heterogeneous ways of engaging with the world.

By: Jess Bier (Postdoctoral Researcher Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 17mm
ISBN: 9780262036153
ISBN 10: 0262036150
Series: Inside Technology
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 30 June 2017
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jess Bier is Assistant Professor of Urban Sociology at Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Reviews for Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine: How Occupied Landscapes Shape Scientific Knowledge

...a penetrating analysis of mapping in occupied territory that gives us an on-the-ground look at how such spatial politics play out....Bier is thoughtful about how tools and data constrain geographic knowledge, and attentive to cartographers' practices as ways of regaining control. -Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences