Benjamin Sacks, Princeton University Antwerp, Belgium recently hosted the 26th International Conference on the History of Cartography, bringing together 150 … More
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Crowd-Sourced Maps: A Way Forward?
by Benjamin Sacks, Princeton University In the mobile Internet age, nearly every individual has the capacity to create. Despite the rapid … More
Italy: A Tale of Popular Geographic Circulation
by Benjamin Sacks In 2002 Harvard historian David Armitage advanced his groundbreaking ‘Three Concepts of the Atlantic World’, a part-historiographical, … More
Development Projects: Elite / Non-Elite Discourses
By Benjamin Sacks Civil projects constitute some of the most visible and symbolic actions of the state. Buildings, monuments, bridges, … More
Searching for Justice in Palestine’s Geography
By Benjamin Sacks The State of Israel and Gaza militants are currently engaged in yet another violent struggle. As I … More
Our Nation is Sinking: The Maldives and Global Warming
by Benjamin Sacks The Maldives is sinking. Like several other South Asian and Oceanic archipelagos, the Maldives’s topography suffers from … More
Spatial and Local Factors in Understanding Financial Crises
By Benjamin Sacks Geography, economics, and finance are intimately linked disciplines, a relationship that is sometimes misunderstood or ignored entirely … More
