http://cartographerswithoutborders.org/

The Power of MapsA cartographic journey along the world’s borders

Geopolitics and borders, New Teacher Subject Day for Geography, 5. March 2016Prince’s Teaching Institute, Altrincham Girls’ Grammar School

Benjamin HennigSenior Research Fellow, University of Oxford

benjamin.hennig@ouce.ox.ac.uk | @geoviews | http://www.viewsoftheworld.net

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/india-and-pakistan-border-seen-under-151959 http://mashable.com/2014/02/26/space-photos-north-korea/#l2d_Aqb.VaqW

http://etc.usf.edu/maps/pages/7200/7299/7299.htmhttp://etc.usf.edu/maps/index.htm

http://www.vox.com/2014/5/8/5691954/colonialism-collapse-gif-imperialism& http://sploid.gizmodo.com/the-formation-of-the-united-states-of-america-in-one-co-1566197764 / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_evolution_of_the_United_States

Lines in the sand

http://einheitsreise.morgenpost.de/http://www.slightlywarped.com/crapfactory/curiosities/2013/october/borders_from_space.htm

Divisions

Unity?

Google Maps / Google StreetView

Boring Borders

Google Maps

Google Maps / Google StreetView

http://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/19941/one-foot-in-belgium-and-the-other-in-the-netherlands

http://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/19941/one-foot-in-belgium-and-the-other-in-the-netherlands& http://blog.art-of-darkness.de/2009/07/photoausstellung-von-robert-hausser-zum-mauerbau

& http://www.wnd.com/2014/07/obama-czar-u-s-southern-border-now-guatemala/

http://www.slightlywarped.com/crapfactory/curiosities/2013/october/borders_from_space.htm

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/blocked-by-hungarys-border-fence-migrants-change-their-course/2015/09/16/2c3f9afc-5bc4-11e5-8475-781cc9851652_story.html& http://www.latimes.com/opinion/topoftheticket/la-na-tt-europe-migrant-crisis-20150902-story.html

http://www.td-architects.eu/projects/show/walled-world/

http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2014/09/economist-explains-1

Politically Powered Maps

A map of Crimea on openstreetmap.orghttp://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/22/google-maps-russia-crimea-federation

Citizen Powered Maps

https://twitter.com/canadanato/status/504651534198927361 & https://twitter.com/natomission_ru/status/505052838184370176

Twitter Wars

http://qz.com/218675/here-are-the-32-countries-google-maps-wont-draw-borders-around/

Maps & Money

Border-lands

http://www.npr.org/2012/11/28/166079782/all-over-the-map-cartography-and-conflict

http://www.npr.org/2012/11/28/166079782/all-over-the-map-cartography-and-conflict

Seas of conflict

https://en.w

ikipedia.org/wiki/Spratly_Islands

http://pcij.org/blog/2008/03/10/stirrings-over-spratlys

Borders in the sea

www.globalsecurity.org

Swallow Reef: Yesterday and Today

Borders in the sea

http://theconversation.com/the-truth-about-politics-and-cartography-mapping-claims-to-the-arctic-seabed-46043

IBRU map comparing the 2001 and 2015 Russian claim areas. Areas in green are in the 2015 claim only. Areas in red are in the 2001 claim

only. Areas in pale yellow are in both claims.

Borders on the ice

New Arctic map, with August 2015 Russian claims shown in pale yellow.

http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/611-our-one-continent-world-pangea-political

Political Pangea

Out of Africa

Thanks for your attention!

benjamin.hennig@ouce.ox.ac.uk | @geoviews | www.viewsoftheworld.net