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The Power of Maps
Brian Paul Hindle,Denis Wood +1 more
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This article is published in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.The article was published on 1994-01-01. It has received 468 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Power (physics).read more
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Computational anatomy: an emerging discipline
Ulf Grenander,Michael I. Miller +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors formalize the Brown/Washington University model of anatomy following the global pattern theory introduced in [1, 2], in which anatomies are represented as deformable templates, collections of 0,1,2,3-dimensional manifolds.
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Maps as social constructions: power, communication and visualization
TL;DR: The map's power to explore, analyze and visualize spatial datasets to understand patterns better has been explored in cartography as discussed by the authors, with the focus on the genealogy of power in mapping practices, and enabling multiple, contingent and exploratory perspectives of data.
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Practices of reading and writing: the constitutive role of the patient record in medical work
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the medical record figures as a fundamental, constitutive element of medical practice and that it mediates the social relations that act and work through it.
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Debating the land question in Africa
TL;DR: Mugabe was accused by Western governments, the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, and the international press, of sacrificing the rule of law in order to save his own political skin this paper.
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Maps of, by, and for the Peoples of Latin America
Peter H. Herlihy,Gregory Knapp +1 more
TL;DR: The use of participatory mapping (PM) has been studied extensively in Latin America as discussed by the authors, where participants are trained to do research or applied work with the researcher, facilitator, or team.