This book provides a sophisticated and nuanced analysis of the role of mapping in contemporary global governance, and will be of interest to students and researchers within politics, geography, sociology, media, and digital culture and

Maps have played a crucial role in the history of politics, locating objects in linear time and space, and enabling political claim-making and contestation. As new technologies have developed, mapping has had the power to generate new spheres of knowledge and regulatory capacities. Today, mapping bears little resemblance to its cartographic origins. In a world increasingly conceived in terms of complexity and unknowability, mapping is seen as a real time and evolving process without fixed spatial relations. This book bring together insights from politics, media and anthropology to explore the growing importance of mapping for global politics, power, and cooperation. The book first introduces the reader to some of the key themes within mapping, and how new technologies have opened up new ways of seeing and contesting space. The book then provides a set of detailed and original case studies, where mapping, understood as a set of biopolitical practices of knowing and governing, provides key methodological angles for considering global governance in the realms of urban politics, refugee control, money, and health interventions. Finally, the book details five future-oriented analytical frameworks, highlighting the transformation of mapping in an age of digital technologies of control and regulation, in which in a world without borders and fixed relations, mapping can be understood as ontopolitical, emphasising the need to rethink assumptions of power and knowledge in the Anthropocene. This book provides a sophisticated and nuanced analysis of the role of mapping in contemporary global governance, and will be of interest to students and researchers within politics, geography, sociology, media, and digital culture and technologies.