• DOI:10.1016/J.POLGEO.2006.05.008
Corpus ID: 145171899

Cartographically constructing Kurdistan within geopolitical and orientalist discourses

@article{Culcasi2006CartographicallyCK,
  title={Cartographically constructing Kurdistan within geopolitical and orientalist discourses},
  author={Karen Culcasi},
  journal={Political Geography},
  year={2006},
  volume={25},
  pages={680-706}
}

Karen Culcasi

Published 2006

Sociology

Political Geography

Abstract Maps are powerful geopolitical tools, which are widely used to represent conflicts over territory, boundaries, citizens, and resources. But maps do more than represent. They are also discursive tools, which reflect, express, and help create geographic knowledge, political agendas, and social stereotypes. Through a longitudinal study of American journalistic cartography of Kurdistan – an ambiguously defined region that has often been in the midst of geopolitical conflict – this paper… CONTINUE READING

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