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Réflexion sur les représentation cartographique, à travers du "cas Daesh"

"As we all know, but often forget, maps are never neutral: every map comes with its own agency, represents a particular worldview. As Mark Monmonier notes in his classic How to Lie with Maps, every map distorts reality, it has to. He describes this conundrum as the cartographic paradox: “to present a useful and truthful picture, an accurate map must tell white lies.”"

"Cartographic language is expressive and malleable, can be tweaked to either support the claim to statehood, cast a picture of a global threat or downplay the importance of the conflict. It is not a revolutionary insight that maps are to some extent always subjective. But since nearly all our information about global events is mediated through emotionalized and anecdotal media images, maps can provide a way to restore some level of sanity and make sense of the bigger picture. As long as we don’t confuse the map with the territory."
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