Comment le peuple juif fut inventé

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Publisher : Fayard
ISBN 13 : 2213641412
Total Pages : 366 pages
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Download or read book Comment le peuple juif fut inventé written by Shlomo Sand and published by Fayard. This book was released on 2008-09-03 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quand le peuple juif fut-il créé ? Est-ce il y a quatre mille ans, ou bien sous la plume d’historiens juifs du XIXe siècle qui ont reconstitué rétrospectivement un peuple imaginé afin de façonner une nation future ? Dans le sillage de la « contre-histoire » née en Israël dans les année 1990, Shlomo Sand nous entraîne dans une plongée à travers l’histoire « de longue durée » des juifs. Les habitants de la Judée furent-ils exilés après la destruction du Second Temple, en l’an 70 de l’ère chrétienne, ou bien s’agit-il ici d’un mythe chrétien qui aurait infiltré la tradition juive ? Et, si les paysans des temps anciens n’ont pas été exilés, que sont-ils devenus L’auteur montre surtout comment, à partir du XIXe siècle, le temps biblique a commencé à être considéré par les premiers sionistes comme le temps historique, celui de la naissance d’une nation. Ce détour par le passé conduit l’historien à un questionnement beaucoup plus contemporain : à l’heure où certains biologistes israéliens cherchent encore à démontrer que les juifs forment un peuple doté d’un ADN spécifique, que cache aujourd’hui le concept d’« État juif », et pourquoi cette entité n’a-t-elle pas réussi jusqu’à maintenant à se constituer en une république appartenant à l’ensemble de ses citoyens, quelle que soit leur religion ? En dénonçant cette dérogation profonde au principe sur lequel se fonde toute démocratie moderne, Shlomo Sand délaisse le débat historiographique pour proposer une critique de la politique identitaire de son pays. Construit sur une analyse d’une grande originalité et pleine d’audace, cet ouvrage foisonnant aborde des questions qui touchent autant à l’origine historique des juifs qu’au statut civique des Israéliens. Paru au printemps 2008 en Israël, il y est très rapidement devenu un best-seller et donne encore lieu à des débats orageux. Né en 1946, Shlomo Sand a fait ses études d’histoire à l’université de Tel-Aviv et à l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales à Paris. Depuis 1985, il enseigne l’histoire contemporaine à l’université de Tel-Aviv. Les Mots et la terre (Fayard, 2006), est son dernier ouvrage publié en français.

Comment le peuple juif fut inventé

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ISBN 13 : 9782081380288
Total Pages : 606 pages
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The Invention of the Jewish People

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Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1788736613
Total Pages : 369 pages
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Download or read book The Invention of the Jewish People written by Shlomo Sand and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical tour de force that demolishes the myths and taboos that have surrounded Jewish and Israeli history, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a new account of both that demands to be read and reckoned with. Was there really a forced exile in the first century, at the hands of the Romans? Should we regard the Jewish people, throughout two millennia, as both a distinct ethnic group and a putative nation—returned at last to its Biblical homeland? Shlomo Sand argues that most Jews actually descend from converts, whose native lands were scattered far across the Middle East and Eastern Europe. The formation of a Jewish people and then a Jewish nation out of these disparate groups could only take place under the sway of a new historiography, developing in response to the rise of nationalism throughout Europe. Beneath the biblical back fill of the nineteenth-century historians, and the twentieth-century intellectuals who replaced rabbis as the architects of Jewish identity, The Invention of the Jewish People uncovers a new narrative of Israel’s formation, and proposes a bold analysis of nationalism that accounts for the old myths. After a long stay on Israel’s bestseller list, and winning the coveted Aujourd’hui Award in France, The Invention of the Jewish People is finally available in English. The central importance of the conflict in the Middle East ensures that Sand’s arguments will reverberate well beyond the historians and politicians that he takes to task. Without an adequate understanding of Israel’s past, capable of superseding today’s opposing views, diplomatic solutions are likely to remain elusive. In this iconoclastic work of history, Shlomo Sand provides the intellectual foundations for a new vision of Israel’s future.

De la nation et du "peuple juif" chez Renan

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Total Pages : 140 pages
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Download or read book De la nation et du "peuple juif" chez Renan written by Shlomo Sand and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L'historien israélien Shlomo Sand présente ici deux conférences de Renan, révélant une partie des sources intellectuelles qui ont inspiré son livre : Comment le peuple juif fut inventé. Il montre également que les idées qu'il a exposées sur la présence juive dans l'histoire ont été partagées, non seulement par Ernest Renan, mais aussi par Marc Bloch, Raymond Aron, et bien d'autres... La nation est-elle simplement composée de membres qui auraient une origine unique ? Les nations sont-elles éternelles ? Ernest Renan a donné à ces questions des réponses originales devenues célèbres. Ses vues sur la place et l'évolution des juifs dans l'histoire sont, en revanche, beaucoup moins connues. Le " peuple d'Israël " constitue-t-il un peuple dans l'acception moderne du terme ou bien une importante communauté religieuse, à l'orée du monothéisme dans le monde occidental ? L'expansion du judaïsme dans le monde résulte t-elle de l'exil d'un peuple ou bien de conversions religieuses massives sur le pourtour méditerranéen, puis en Russie méridionale et au Caucase ?

Le canular de l'invention du Peuple juif

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Publisher : Lacoursière Editions
ISBN 13 : 2925098800
Total Pages : 205 pages
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Download or read book Le canular de l'invention du Peuple juif written by Thérèse Zrihen-Dvir and published by Lacoursière Editions. This book was released on 2021-12-08 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Un livre exceptionnel, inoubliable. Thérèse Zrihen-Dvir signe un essai sur ledit canular de l'invention du Peuple juif. Un ouvrage à lire pour découvrir toute la vérité. « Dès le titre, la réalité s'impose à nous, le contexte biblique n'explique pas tout et il y a une réalité historique hors de ce contexte biblique. Sur quelles bases repose-t-elle ? Si, pour l'essentiel, le contexte biblique est l'ossature de l'édification, il y a à côté un vaste territoire où l'histoire du peuple juif se poursuit par la péripétie. On pourrait croire que la revendication reste de qualité relative au regard de l'emprunt biblique. Rien ne serait plus excessif ! La poursuite de l'histoire juive au-delà du contexte biblique atteste de la part non négligeable que cette péripétie confère à ce choix. Le canular de l'invention du Peuple juif de Thérèse Zrihen-Dvir est un grand livre d'histoire, car il ne néglige rien de ce qui alimente la vie même de ce peuple et qui en qui en est la signature de la notoriété et de la maturité. »

The Invention of the Land of Israel

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Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1781684472
Total Pages : 299 pages
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Download or read book The Invention of the Land of Israel written by Shlomo Sand and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a homeland? When does it become a national territory? Why have so many people been willing to die for such places throughout the twentieth century? What is the essence of the Promised Land? Following the acclaimed and controversial The Invention of the Jewish People, Shlomo Sand examines the mysterious sacred land that has become the site of the longest-running national struggle of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The Invention of the Land of Israel deconstructs the age-old legends surrounding the Holy Land and the prejudices that continue to suffocate it. The invention of the modern concept of the "Land of Israel" in the nineteenth century, he argues, not only facilitated the colonization of the Middle East and the establishment of the State of Israel, it is also what is threatening Israel's existence today.

The Emergence of Israel in Ancient Palestine

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134947828
Total Pages : 369 pages
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Book Synopsis The Emergence of Israel in Ancient Palestine by : Emanuel Pfoh

Download or read book The Emergence of Israel in Ancient Palestine written by Emanuel Pfoh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking advantage of critical methodology for history-writing and the use of anthropological insights and ethnographic data from the modern Middle East, this study aims at providing new understandings on the emergence of Israel in ancient Palestine and the socio-political dynamics at work in the Levant during antiquity. The book begins with a discussion of matters of historiography and history-writing, both in ancient and modern times, and an evaluation on the incidence of the modern theological discourse in relation to history and history-writing. Chapter 2 evaluates the methodology used by biblical scholars for gaining knowledge on ancient Israelite society. Pfoh argues that such attempts often apply socio-scientific models on biblical narratives without external evidence of the reconstructed past, producing a virtual past reality which cannot be confirmed concretely. Chapter 3 deals with the archaeological remains usually held as clear evidence of Israelite statehood in the tenth century BCE. The main criticism is directed towards archaeological interpretations of the data which are led by the biblical narratives of the books of Judges and Samuel, resulting in a harmonic blend of ancient literature and modern anthropological models on state-formation. Chapter 4 continues with the discussion on how anthropological models should be employed for history-writing. Socio-political concepts, such as chiefdom society or state formation should not be imposed on the contents of ancient literary sources (i.e., the Bible) but used instead to analyse our primary sources (the archaeological and epigraphic records), in order to create a socio-historical account. The final chapter attempts to provide an historical explanation regarding the emergence of Israel in ancient Palestine without relying on the Bible but only on archaeology, epigraphy and anthropological insights. This Israel is not the biblical one. This is the Israel from history, the one that the modern historian aims at recovering from the study of ancient epigraphic and archaeological remains. The arguments presented challenge the idea that the biblical writers were recording historical events as we understand this practice nowadays and that we can use the biblical records for creating critical histories of Israel in ancient Palestine. It also questions the existence of undisputable traces of statehood in the archaeological record from the Iron Age, as the biblical images about a United Monarchy might lead us to believe. Thus, drawing on ethnographic insights, we may gain a better knowledge on how ancient Levantine societies functioned, providing us with a context for understanding the emergence of historical Israel as a major highland patronate, with a socio-political life of almost two centuries. It is during the later periods of ancient Palestines history, the Persian and the Graeco-Roman, that we find the proper context into which biblical Israel is created, beginning a literary life of more than two millennia.

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Publisher : Odile Jacob
ISBN 13 : 2738182178
Total Pages : 351 pages
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Origins of Yiddish Dialects

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198739311
Total Pages : 646 pages
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Download or read book Origins of Yiddish Dialects written by Alexander Beider and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the origins of modern varieties of Yiddish and presents evidence for the claim that, contrary to most accounts, Yiddish only developed into a separate language in the 15th century. Through a careful analysis of Yiddish phonology, morphology, orthography, and the Yiddish lexicon in all its varieties, Alexander Beider shows how what are commonly referred to as Eastern Yiddish and Western Yiddish have different ancestors. Specifically, he argues that the western branch is based on German dialects spoken in western Germany with some Old French influence, while the eastern branch has its origins in German dialects spoken in the modern-day Czech Republic with some Old Czech influence. The similarities between the two branches today are mainly a result of the close links between the underlying German dialects, and of the close contact between speakers. Following an introduction to the definition and classification of Yiddish and its dialects, chapters in the book investigate the German, Hebrew, Romance, and Slavic components of Yiddish, as well as the sound changes that have occurred in the various dialects. The book will be of interest to all those working in the areas of Yiddish and Jewish Studies in particular, and historical linguistics and history more generally.

Learning from Memory

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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144383114X
Total Pages : 350 pages
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Book Synopsis Learning from Memory by : Bianca Maria Pirani

Download or read book Learning from Memory written by Bianca Maria Pirani and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This challenging book, with excellent contributions from international social scientists, focuses on the link between body and memory that specifically refers to the use of digital technologies. Neuroscientists know very well that human beings automatically and unconsciously organize their experience in their bodies into spatial units whose confines are established by changes in location, temporality and the interactive elements that determine it. Our memories might be less reliable than those of the average computer, but they are just as capacious, much more flexible, and even more user-friendly. The aim of the present book is to outline, by the body, what we know of the sociology of memory. The authors and editors believe that an analysis at the sociological level will prove valuable in throwing light on accounts of human behavior at the interpersonal and social level, and will play an important role in our capacity to understand the neurobiological factors that underpin the various types of memory. This book is an ideal resource for advanced and postgraduate students in social sciences, as well as practitioners in the field of Information and Communication technologies. Scholarly and accessible in tone, Learning from Memory: Body, Memory and Technology in a Globalizing World will be read and enjoyed by members of the general public and the professional audience alike.

A Philosophical Retrospective

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Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231526792
Total Pages : 216 pages
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Download or read book A Philosophical Retrospective written by Alan Montefiore and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-14 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a young lecturer in philosophy and the eldest son of a prominent Jewish family, Alan Montefiore faced two very different understandings of his identity: the more traditional view that an identity such as his carried with it, as a matter of given fact, certain duties and obligations, and an opposing view, emphasized by his studies in philosophy, according to which there can be no rationally compelling move from statements of fact whatever the alleged facts may be to "judgments of value." According to this second view, individuals must in the end take responsibility for determining their own values and obligations. In this book, Montefiore looks back on his attempts to understand the nature of this conflict and the misunderstandings it may engender. In the process, he illustrates through personal experience the practical implications of a characteristically philosophical issue. Montefiore finally settles on the following: while everyone has to accept that facts, including those of their own situation, are whatever they may be, both the "traditional" assumption that individuals must recognize certain values and obligations as rooted in those very facts, and the contrary view that individuals are ultimately responsible for determining their own values, are deeply embedded in differing conceptions of society and its relation to its members. Montefiore then examines the misunderstandings between those for whom identity constitutes in effect a conceptual bridge connecting the facts of who and what a person may be to the value commitments incumbent upon them, and those for whom the very idea of such a bridge can be nothing but a confusion. Using key examples from the notoriously vexed case of Jewish identity and from his own encounters with its conflicting meanings and implications, Montefiore depicts the practical significance of the differences between these worldviews, particularly for those who hove to negotiate them.

Autour de l'inconscient

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Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1291984631
Total Pages : 241 pages
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Download or read book Autour de l'inconscient written by Claude Doisy and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-07-18 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L'humanité évolue, dans la violence. Une conscience nouvelle émerge de la souffrance et change les hommes. À l'ère du numérique, le processus s'accélère. Les réseaux sociaux utilisent ce nouveau langage, celui des images. Un langage qui acquiert une puissance nouvelle, au-delà des mots, et au-delà de l'écrit. Une conscience collective, celle des liens qui nous lient, celle de notre solidarité, est lisible dans les mémoires que nous construisons, l'Histoire. Essayons de la voir apparaitre.

Arab Political Thought

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1787383660
Total Pages : 386 pages
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Download or read book Arab Political Thought written by Georges Corm and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-15 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates the vitality of Arab political thought and its major controversies. It shows that the key players involved, far from being constrained by a theological-political straitjacket, have often demonstrated strong critical thinking when tackling religion and philosophy, anthropology and politics. Setting these thinkers and their works within two centuries of upheaval in the Arab world, Georges Corm demonstrates how Arab critical thought has been marginalized by powerful external forces: the military, the academy and the media. In its place has risen a hegemonic Islamist thought, used cannily by certain Arab regimes and their Western protectors. Closely tracing the successive transformations of modernist Arab nationalism, Arab Political Thought offers a blueprint for understanding the libertarian Arab Spring, as well as the counter-revolutions and external interventions that have followed. This invaluable guide comprehensively distils the complexity of Arab intellectualism, which is both critical and profane, and a far cry from the outdated politico-religious image it has acquired.

From Al-Andalus to the Americas (13th-17th Centuries)

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900436577X
Total Pages : 485 pages
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Download or read book From Al-Andalus to the Americas (13th-17th Centuries) written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Al-Andalus to the Americas (13th-17th Centuries). Destruction and Construcion of Societies offers a multi-perspective view of the filiation of different colonial and settler colonial experiences, from the Medieval Iberian Peninsula to the early Modern Americas. All the articles in the volume refer the reader to colonial orders that extended over time, that substantially reduced indigenous populations, that imposed new productive strategies and created new social hierarchies. The ideological background and how conquests were organised; the treatment given to the conquered lands and people; the political organisations, and the old and new agricultural systems are issues discussed in this volume. Contributors are David Abulafia, Manuel Ardit, Antonio Espino, Adela Fábregas, Josep M. Fradera, Enric Guinot, Helena Kirchner, Antonio Malpica, Virgilio Martínez-Enamorado, Carmen Mena, António Mendes, Félix Retamero, Inge Schjellerup, Josep Torró, and Antoni Virgili.

The Israel-Palestine Conflict

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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444357867
Total Pages : 226 pages
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Download or read book The Israel-Palestine Conflict written by Neil Caplan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-09-19 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Contested Histories provides non-specialist readers with an introduction and historical overview of the issues that have characterized and defined 130 years of the still unresolved Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Provides a fresh attempt to break away from polemical approaches that have undermined academic discussion and political debates Focuses on a series of core arguments that the author considers essentially unwinnable Introduces readers to the major historiographical debates sparked by the dispute Encourages readers to consider more useful ways of explaining and understanding the conflict, and to go beyond trying to prove who is ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ "This volume suggests a fresh and original interpretation to the history of the Arab Israeli conflict. Caplan juggles skillfully and even-handedly between the two narratives, reflecting the parties’ own views without embracing the cause of any party." –Joseph Nevo, University of Haifa "An impressive and very valuable work. One could not ask for a better short history of the conflict. Caplan offers readers a study that is extremely well-informed, resolutely fair-minded, and filled with thoughtful insights." –Mark Tessler, University of Michigan

What Is a Nation? and Other Political Writings

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Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231547145
Total Pages : 535 pages
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Book Synopsis What Is a Nation? and Other Political Writings by : Ernest Renan

Download or read book What Is a Nation? and Other Political Writings written by Ernest Renan and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ernest Renan was one of the leading lights of the Parisian intellectual scene in the second half of the nineteenth century. A philologist, historian, and biblical scholar, he was a prominent voice of French liberalism and secularism. Today most familiar in the English-speaking world for his 1882 lecture “What Is a Nation?” and its definition of a nation as an “everyday plebiscite,” Renan was a major figure in the debates surrounding the Franco-Prussian War, the Paris Commune, and the birth of the Third Republic and had a profound influence on thinkers across the political spectrum who grappled with the problem of authority and social organization in the new world wrought by the forces of modernization. What Is a Nation? and Other Political Writings is the first English-language anthology of Renan’s political thought. Offering a broad selection of Renan’s writings from several periods of his public life, most previously untranslated, it restores Renan to his place as one of France’s major liberal thinkers and gives vital critical context to his views on nationalism. The anthology illuminates the characteristics that distinguished nineteenth-century French liberalism from its English and American counterparts as well as the more controversial parts of Renan’s legacy, including his analysis of colonial expansion, his views on Islam and Judaism, and the role of race in his thought. The volume contains a critical introduction to Renan’s life and work as well as detailed annotations that assist in recovering the wealth and complexity of his thought.

The Politics of Mapping

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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119986745
Total Pages : 194 pages
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Book Synopsis The Politics of Mapping by : Bernard Debarbieux

Download or read book The Politics of Mapping written by Bernard Debarbieux and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-05-20 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maps and mapping are fundamentally political. Whether they are authoritarian, hegemonic, participatory or critical, they are most often guided by the desire to have control over space, and always involve power relations. This book takes stock of the knowledge acquired and the debates conducted in the field of critical cartography over some thirty years. The Politics of Mapping includes analyses of recent semiological, social and technological innovations in the production and use of maps and, more generally, geographical information. The chapters are the work of specialists in the field, in the form of a thematic analysis, a theoretical essay, or a reflection on a professional, scientific or militant practice. From mapping issues for modern states to the digital and big data era, from maps produced by Indigenous peoples or migrant–advocacy organizations in Europe, the perspectives are both historical and contemporary.