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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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Late Antique Allāh: Ancestral Arabian Religion and the Monotheistic Zeitgeist
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay addresses the ongoing scholarly tension between the monotheistic interpretations of late pre‐Islamic Arabian religion, pioneered by G. Hawting and P. Crone, and the traditional accounts of rampant Arabian polytheism found in later Islamic literary sources.
Ahmad Al‐Jallad, Hythem Sidky
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ISPRS International Journal of Geo-InformationMaps are the culmination of numerous choices, with many offering multiple alternatives. Not all of these choices are inherently guided by default, clarity, or universally accepted best practices, guidelines, or recommendations.
Georg Gartner +3 more
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Revista Tamoios, 2011 O presente artigo aborda a problemática da cartografia enquanto difusora de uma única visão de mundo – a visão eurocêntrica do mundo, uma cartografia que oferece suporte (ou, minimamente não ajuda a combater) aos constructos sociais que desvalorizam os ...
Lya Moret Boynard
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Progress in Human Geography, 2014 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 so by building on Kitchin and Dodge’s argument (2007) that parts of the apparent disjuncture within cartography might be resolved through a greater focus on emergent ...
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Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT ‘Middle Australia’ became a ubiquitous term of social categorisation and political positioning during the latter decades of the 20th century. This article examines how this concept was variously used in the metropolitan print media in the guises of the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age of Melbourne, including in their reporting of federal and ...
Chris Beer
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Properties of cartographic modelling under contemporary definitions of a map
Polish Cartographical Review, 2016 The identity of cartography is determined by the manner of defining and interpreting the concept of “map”. However, the term has not been unequivocally articulated as yet.
Baranowski Marek +2 more
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Progress in Human Geography, 2013 The goal of this second report is to review how social media are changing the way we collectively map the world. To reach this goal I review different collective mapping practices that characterize the social media era. First I examine the situation of community mapping in the context of new cartographic processes and technologies, with a focus on ...
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, 2008 The transmission of geospatial facts is a crucial necessity since creatures move in space and need to communicate. We can observe the collective communication behaviour of insects, which has been brought to perfection during evolution and is highly ...
Jobst, Markus
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Containing Histories Past and Present: Making Samples in the “Huntington Collection” (1893–1921)
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Huntington Anatomical Collection (1893–1921) includes the skeletal remains of immigrants, migrants, and lifelong New York City residents. The collection's formation was coeval with the formalization of physical anthropology, and the collection was made to serve research aims centered on race and origin.
Alanna L. Warner‐Smith
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