Dr. Christine Leuenberger will discuss her book, The Politics of Maps: Cartographic Constructions of Israel/Palestine, published by the Oxford University Press. This book explores map war in Israel/Palestine - how the geographical sciences become entangled with politics, territorial claim making, and nation-state building in Israel/Palestine. The book also investigates how society and politics shape map-making and how various actors, institutions, and governments rely on the powerful visual rhetoric of maps in order to engage in geopolitics. To learn more, read this article in the Cornell Chronicle.

About the speaker

Dr. Christine Leuenberger is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Science & Technology Studies. Her research focuses on qualitative methods, sociology of medicine, classical and contemporary sociological theory, sociology of knowledge, interactional sociology, sociology of culture, transformation studies of Eastern Europe, Middle Eastern Studies, Peace Studies, and the sociology and history of the human and behavioral sciences. She is also engaged in peace and educational initiatives in conflict regions in the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa.

This conversation is part of the spring seminar series with the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS).