Schedule > 2. Do Artifacts Have Politics?

Slides

• Do Artifacts Have Politics?

Readings

• Winner, L. (1980). Do Artifacts Have Politics?, Daedalus.
  • Feel free to watch this video as a primer (but not substitute!) to the article

• Engel, J. (2023). Turtle Island Decolonized: Mapping Indigenous Names across “North America”, Decolonial Atlas.
  • Check out the full-size maps under the "Printing" heading (here's an example of one)
• Bensinger, G. (2020). Google redraws the borders on maps depending on who’s looking, The Washington Post.
• Morlin-Yron, S. (2017). What’s the real size of Africa? How Western states used maps to downplay size of continent, CNN.