Tag: Digital Map
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Epistemic Violence and Resistance through Mapping Kinds
From the very beginning of the fellowship I was extremely eager to participate in the spatial mapping workshops. The reading I remember most from the only philosophy course I ever took defined map making as the process of using generalizations via simplification, symbolization, induction, and classification to construct a physical ontology [1]. This articulated an…
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Africa Inspired Socio-Cultural Heritage in Oriente Cuba: A Digital Mapping Project
My Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative project is a digital mapping that focuses on contributions from Cuba’s African heritage to socio-cultural spaces and places in the island’s eastern, Oriente region. Oriente has had an historical African presence dating back as early as the 1520s and the area has been the province from which began all of…