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    1

    GEOPOLITICS

    HOW TO SEE THE WORLD


    On reading maps

    David Murillo
    Department of Society, Politics and Sustainability
    1. THE CARTOGRAPHIC ILLUSION

    2
    HOW TO SEE THE WORLD
    Case 1 G7 meeting June 2018: two ways to see the world

    What is this
    picture revealing?
    (7 Jun)

    Tensions
    between the
    US and the EU
    saw the G7
    summit end in
    chaos after Mr
    Trump refused
    to sign the joint
    statement of
    world leaders.
    HOW TO SEE THE WORLD
    Case 2 G7 meeting June 2018: two ways to see the world

    What is this
    picture
    revealing?
    (9 June)
    On the importance of reading maps:
    how to train our eyes
    Posidonius (150-130 B.C. Reconstructed in 1628) 6
    7
    Ptolomy’s map (II Cent. A.D. recontructed in 1482)
    Yu ji tu 8
    (Map of China) (1137)
    Al-Idrisi (1154)
    9
    Hereford map (1290)
    Hereford map (1290)
    T-in-O map (XVth Cent.)
    Vinland map (XVth Cent.) 13
    Enricus Martellus map (1490 AD.) 14
    15
    Gerardus Mercator (1569)
    The Sihai Huayi Zongtu Map (XVI Century)
    HOW TO SEE THE WORLD?

    H.J.Mackinder (1904) 17
    HOW TO SEE THE WORLD?

    18
    The Cold War Map (1949-1989)
    HOW TO SEE THE WORLD?

    19
    Gall-Peters (XXth Century)
    HOW TO SEE THE WORLD?

    Hungtington’s Map of civilizations (1993) 20


    HOW TO SEE THE WORLD?

    Axis of Evil Map (2002) 21


    HOW TO SEE THE WORLD?

    1. The lust group

    2. The resentment group;

    3. The group of fear;

    4.The dubious/indecisive

    Todorov (2008)22
    HOW TO SEE THE WORLD?
    1. Those who win: China, India, Brasil and
    South Africa

    2. Those who are in a defensive position:


    Jiemian Yang. President of USA, IMF and World Bank
    the Shanghai Institutes for
    International Studies (SIIS),
    3. Those who lose influence upon the
    world: Europe, Russia and Japan

    4. Those who have no power nor


    influence: the rest

    Yang (2010)
    HOW TO SEE THE WORLD?

    Population density (2010) 24


    HOW TO SEE THE WORLD?

    Map of facebook (2013) 25


    HOW TO SEE THE WORLD?

    Map of Twitter languages in Europe (2012) 26


    HOW TO SEE THE WORLD?

    27
    28
    Biases of
    attention
    by cultural
    proximity
    HOW TO SEE THE WORLD?

    30
    HOW TO SEE THE WORLD?

    Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (2021) 31


    HOW TO SEE THE WORLD?

    Freedom in the World by Freedom House (2018) 32


    HOW TO SEE THE WORLD?

    XXIst Century? 33
    Or this one?

    (2050 Map)

    34
    HOW TO SEE THE WORLD?
    The Thomas theorem is a
    theory of sociology which was
    formulated in 1928 by W. I.
    Thomas (1863–1947):

    “ If men define
    situations as real, they
    are real in their
    consequences”
    35
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