Mahshid Mayar (2022): Citizens and Rulers of the World. The American Child and the Cartographic Pedagogies of Empire, The University of North Carolina Press: Chapel Hill.
By delving into the complex, cross-generational exchanges that characterize any political project as rampant as empire, this thought-provoking study focuses on children and their ambivalent, intimate relationships with maps and practices of mapping at the dawn of the „American Century.“ Considering children as students, map and puzzle makers, letter writers, and playmates, Mahshid Mayar interrogates… Read More Mahshid Mayar (2022): Citizens and Rulers of the World. The American Child and the Cartographic Pedagogies of Empire, The University of North Carolina Press: Chapel Hill.