The World Map We Learned in School is Wildly Misleading and Africa Wants It Gone
Maps help shape how we make sense of the world.
Jack Swab (he/him/his) is a geographer whose work bridges human geography and geographic information science (GIS), with research in critical cartography, health geography, urban geography, queer geographies, science and technology studies, and the histories of both cartography and geographic thought. His scholarship investigates how spatial knowledge is created, communicated, and contested, with particular attention to the social, political, cultural, and economic contexts of mapping.
Maps help shape how we make sense of the world.