Mapping ethno-politics: Borders and cartographic representation in post-Yugoslav (virtual) space

Abstract

This paper will interpret ethnic and ethnographic mapping of both the digital and the preceding analogue era in the former Yugoslavia by following Jeremy Crampton’s positions on providing “a social history or anthropology of maps and mapping as contingent and contesting representations, that is, maps as social constructions (. . .) and document[ing] the power of the map by tracing out the genealogy of power discourses, that is, how maps are strategies and relations of power-knowledge”.