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« When settler Libya was the model: Patrick Bernhard, ‘Libya, Mussolini, and the “White Race” : Fascist Colonialism and its Imprint on the British Empire’, in Cyrus Schayegh, David Motzafi-Haller (eds), Knowledge in Modern Transimperial History: Actors, Formations, Causes,Leiden University Press, 2025, pp. 203-233
Tourism settler colonialism: Casey Moran, Joelle Soulard, William Stewart, ‘Settler Colonialism in Authorized Heritage Discourses’, Journal of Travel Research, 2025 »

Decolonial mapping represents Indigenous narratives: Karina Craig, Kaela Stewart, ‘Re-Centring First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Narratives’, Technology, 2025, pp. 331-345

04Dec25

Excerpt: Mapping, often perceived as a technical or neutral act, is fundamentally political. It is an act of selection: emphasizing some realities while excluding others, embedding subjective worldviews into seemingly objective forms. Every line drawn, every label inscribed, asserts biases, assumptions, and partialities of its maker. In this sense, mapping is never neutral—it is a site of power, negotiation, and imagination.

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