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<div><font size="4"><b>Christine Leuenberger </b></font><span class="affiliation"></span></div>
<i>Cornell University, STS</i>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">The Politics of Maps: Mapping the West Bank Barrier</p>
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<div>Monday, April 16th<br></div>
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<div><b>Abstract:</b> The
West Bank Barrier increasingly reshapes Israeli and Palestinian
land-and cityscapes. Its physical infrastructure – which consists of
walls and an elaborate fence system - are depicted prominently in some
maps, but disappear or are omitted in others. This paper examines how
different Israeli, Palestinian, and international governmental and
non-governmental cartographic institutions delineate the West Bank
Barrier in maps. The focus is on how various visual and textual devices
as well as spatial markers are used to communicate certain social and
political concerns, construct particular spatial orders, and portray the
West Bank Barrier as either a negligible feature of the landscape or as
a significant obstacle to the freedom of movement. The cartographic
construction of the barrier in maps shows how cartographers’ assumptions
concerning its function, the map’s target audience, and the adequacy of
various national and trans-national cartographic standards, may provide
an authoritative and legitimate, yet, an inevitably political and
locally produced, representation of the West Bank Barrier.<span></span>
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<div><b>Biography</b>: <b><span></span></b><b style="font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:Cambria"></span></b> <span style="color:#211d1e">Christine Leuenberger is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Science & Technology Studies at Cornell University. </span><span style>She
received her PhD in Sociology/Social Sciences in 1995 from the
University of Konstanz (Germany) and an MA in Sociology of Contemporary
Culture from the University of York (England). She was a Fulbright
Scholar in Israel and the Palestinian Territories in 2008 and a
Fulbright Specialist at Tel Aviv University (Israel) in 2011/12. She is
the recent recipient of an NSF Scholars award to study the history and
sociology of mapping practices in Israel and the Palestinian
Territories. </span><span style="color:#211d1e">She is also working on the social impact of the West Bank Barrier and on the social history of psychology in the Middle East.</span><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">
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