Past Event: Bill Rankin’s Radical Cartography — A Book Launch!

Join us in celebrating the launch of Radical Cartography, a new book by Bill Rankin that reimagines how maps can challenge power rather than reinforce it. 

Maps are typically tools of the powerful, created by governments or large corporations to reflect and reinforce the status quo. This book shows how new kinds of cartography can challenge the entrenched politics of mainstream mapping. By combining historical research on the history of data maps with Rankin’s own work as a cartographer over the last twenty years, it argues that contemporary cartography should be guided not just by new data or new technology, but by a new set of values.

The event will include remarks by respondents Karen Seto, Alex Gil, Kalindi Vora, & Mark Peterson, followed by an open conversation with the author.

Date & Time: Tuesday, November 4, 5:00–6:30 PM
Location: Quadrangle; 320 York St, Room 136

Co-sponsored & co-organized by the Yale Center for Geospatial Solutions (YCGS), the Critical Computing Initiative, the Program in the History of Science and Medicine, and the Department of History.

Drinks and snacks will be served.