Cartographies policières : la dimension vernaculaire du contrôle territorial

Crime mapping in police work is subject to many controversies, which underestimate two important elements. First, the anteriority of mapping practices within the police before the implementation of crime mapping technologies. Secondly, mapping practices in the police are often self-taught i.e. witho...

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Main Author: Melina Germes
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Language:fra
Published: Pôle de Recherche pour l'Organisation et la diffusion de l'Information Géographique 2024-03-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/echogeo/13856
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description Crime mapping in police work is subject to many controversies, which underestimate two important elements. First, the anteriority of mapping practices within the police before the implementation of crime mapping technologies. Secondly, mapping practices in the police are often self-taught i.e. without proper cartographical education. Thus, police mapping practices have to be unterstood as a particular professionnal culture, and should be distinguished from the expertise of professionnal cartographers. This paper highlights the vernacular dimension of police cartographic work and shows how the multiple police cartographies serve a territorial project aimed at control. Thanks to a field research about cartography in the french Gendarmerie Nationale, the paper contributes to a police geography rooted in international critical cartography and francophone geography.
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spelling doaj-art-a4d41421d99f4cb8a3aaf1c8feefc2692025-01-30T12:44:14ZfraPôle de Recherche pour l'Organisation et la diffusion de l'Information GéographiqueEchoGéo1963-11972024-03-012810.4000/echogeo.13856Cartographies policières : la dimension vernaculaire du contrôle territorialMelina GermesCrime mapping in police work is subject to many controversies, which underestimate two important elements. First, the anteriority of mapping practices within the police before the implementation of crime mapping technologies. Secondly, mapping practices in the police are often self-taught i.e. without proper cartographical education. Thus, police mapping practices have to be unterstood as a particular professionnal culture, and should be distinguished from the expertise of professionnal cartographers. This paper highlights the vernacular dimension of police cartographic work and shows how the multiple police cartographies serve a territorial project aimed at control. Thanks to a field research about cartography in the french Gendarmerie Nationale, the paper contributes to a police geography rooted in international critical cartography and francophone geography.https://journals.openedition.org/echogeo/13856FrancePolicemappingGendarmeriemapping practicecritical cartography
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Cartographies policières : la dimension vernaculaire du contrôle territorial
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France
Police
mapping
Gendarmerie
mapping practice
critical cartography
title Cartographies policières : la dimension vernaculaire du contrôle territorial
title_full Cartographies policières : la dimension vernaculaire du contrôle territorial
title_fullStr Cartographies policières : la dimension vernaculaire du contrôle territorial
title_full_unstemmed Cartographies policières : la dimension vernaculaire du contrôle territorial
title_short Cartographies policières : la dimension vernaculaire du contrôle territorial
title_sort cartographies policieres la dimension vernaculaire du controle territorial
topic France
Police
mapping
Gendarmerie
mapping practice
critical cartography
url https://journals.openedition.org/echogeo/13856
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