-------- Original Message -------- Subject: BioPower: Cartography of migration flows Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 06:56:05 -0700 (PDT) From: MARZIO VENEMAN <[log in to unmask]> To: Angie Cope <[log in to unmask]> Dear subscribers Map-L, With reference to the above, I take pleasure informing you as follows: ===== http://mastersofmedia.hum.uva.nl/2010/04/27/cartography-of-migration-flows/ " power of information society has shifted its focus from territory to population (biopower). Consequently, mapping has been reconsidered not only in terms of production of space and place, but also people who inhabit that space (Pickles, 2002). Furthermore, ?mapping? no longer refers only to physical and geospatial but has extended to other social phenomena such as social networks, socio-political relationships between actors, email conversations, militarization etc. We are presented with a new challenge ? to visualize / map new mobilities of people, information and goods (or what Castells <http://www.manuelcastells.info/en/> calls ?network societies? and Apadurai <http://www.appadurai.com/>?cultural flow?). According to Crampton <http://monarch.gsu.edu/jcrampton/> critical mapping, which highlights the politics of mapping is one of the current cartography trends. This trends reflects in migration cartography, where critical mapping has become a tool of counter-knowledge, ?a polemical weapon?, in an effort to influence political debates and policies points Williams Walter<http://www2.carleton.ca/eurus/faculty-and-staff/research-associates/walters-william/>. In the article ?The contested Cartography of ?Illegal Immigration?, he is concerned with how cultural practices and in particular mapping and cartography relate to anti-political economy. " === I trust this information is sufficient for your purposes, in case you require any additional details, please do not hesitate to contact the undersigned. Yours sincerely, Cordiali Saluti Marzio Veneman The Netherlands