'Maps also play an active role in dehumanising others, making it easier to view humans and their ways of life as targets of military action. Maps take a messy, complicated world and turn it into a flat picture' - Doug Specht (@UniWestminster).

blog.geographydirections.com/2024/04/23/gaz…

'Gaza war: how maps are used and abused in times of conflict' by Doug Specht (@UniWestminster).

blog.geographydirections.com/2024/04/23/gaz…

How do maps contribute to the dehumanisation of individuals amidst conflict?

Doug Specht (@UniWestminster) discusses the role of maps in shaping narratives and dehumanising populations in Gaza in a new @geogdirections post. 👇

blog.geographydirections.com/2024/04/23/gaz…

There are 32 active conflicts around the world. While bullets & bombs are immediate instruments of destruction, maps play a significant role in shaping conflict & can be twisted into instruments of dehumanisation & manipulation.
#geographer Doug Specht

blog.geographydirections.com/2024/04/23/gaz…

How do maps contribute to the dehumanisation of individuals amidst conflict?

Doug Specht (@UniWestminster) discusses the role of maps in shaping narratives and dehumanising populations in Gaza in a new @geogdirections post. 👇

blog.geographydirections.com/2024/04/23/gaz…

Maps 'can be twisted into instruments of dehumanisation & strategic manipulation... weaponized to serve political agendas or perpetuate false narratives, exploiting their perceived authority to lend legitimacy to distorted versions of reality' Doug Specht blog.geographydirections.com/2024/04/23/gaz…

*New post* by Doug Specht (@UniWestminster):

'Gaza war: how maps are used and abused in times of conflict'.

blog.geographydirections.com/2024/04/23/gaz…

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Fantastic opening dialogue table about collaborative mapping #greenconnections23 #EnvironmentalJustice Deborah Delgado Doug Specht Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen

The results of the Teaching Excellence Framework were announced this morning, and we have been rated Silver 👏

See what this means for all current and future Westminster students 👇

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Day 2 of #Geomedia2023 Conference at Informaatioteknologian ja viestinnän tiedekunta starts with Doug Specht of University of Westminster charting a roadmap to map the “un-mappable and un-seeable” in the panel on War, Conflict & Politics, chaired by Georgia Aitaki.

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Join us for the 3rd Annual Conference of the Network for Global Justice and the Environmental Humanities in Copenhagen 2-3rd of November 2023. Funding available for travel expenses. #GreenTransition #ClimateCrisis #EnvironmentalJustice

Highly recommend the Antarctic Photography exhibition at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)

I'm on this week's The Bunker Global podcast to discuss 4 years of Bukele's rule in El Salvador link.chtbl.com/bunkerpod

🌎Bunker Global🌎

Join Jacob Dylan Jarvis, Laura Makin-Isherwood and Doug Specht for your latest on news and politics from around the world.

🇸🇻 El Salvador's gang crackdown
🇨🇳 Xi's power grab
🇺🇦 The fate of Ukraine's kidnapped children

Listen here: listen.podmasters.uk/BNKR230803Bunk…