Working with Spatial Data
Fieldwork Guide for mapping and working with social data.
Inventory of Good Practices
In this inventory, the VisLab collects diverse examples in which peace, conflict and their entanglements with other socio-spatial processes are visualised by various actors (e.g. scientists, media, or artists).
Critical Map Reading Guide
This tool is intended to support researchers in critical analysis of cartographic material, by providing a set of topics and questions relevant for peace and conflict maps.
Maps as Future Landscapes: Countermapping Legacies of Violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Text published in Memories of Landscape. On Traces of Violence in Nature: Documentation of the European Summer Academy for Young Professionals.
Developing a Digital Atlas as a concept for multi-perspective peace and conflict mapping
Abstract of the paper presented at the International Cartographic Conference in August 2025 in Vancouver.
Swap and Sacrifice: The Colonial Legacy of Mapping in BiH
In the Western Balkans, capitalists and ethno-nationalists collaborate to seize and distribute mineral wealth, backed by the EU and other geopolitical actors. Their pragmatic strategies of parceling, swapping, and sacrificing land perpetuate a cartographically detached vision of ‘others’ as patterns to eradicate.
Design perspective in analysing maps of peace and conflict: a proposal based on cartographic material from the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina
This article explores and discusses an approach to analysing cartographic material in the context of peace and conflict studies. The core argument is the proposal to delve with more depth into the design space of mapmaking, as a conceptual space which reveals sociomaterial and temporal relations in map production, use and circulation.
The War Of Maps? Spatial (Mis)Representations Of The Russo-Ukrainian War In The Digital Context
Ukrainian Analytical Digest (Special Issue) No. 008, September 2024.
This issue critically explores the role cartographic imagery plays in framing public perception and geopolitical narratives in the context of the Russo-Ukrainian War.
Constructing “Russian civilisation”: A critical introduction to the National Atlas of Russia (publ. 2004–2008)
This paper presents a critical analysis of the Russian National Atlas (2004–2008), the presentation of which is based on the tradition of the Soviet school of complex atlas production, and which is the first (and so far only) Soviet and post-Soviet Russian national atlas.
Power, silences, and production of space. New map of Russian State, 2023
The new map of the Russian Federation includes not only annexed Crimea, but also the Donetzk and Lugansk regions, as well as Kherson – areas that are (or have been) occupied by the Russian State during the full-scale invasion in Ukraine.
Raumformate und Kartensprachen erkennen
Vorschlag einer Methodik zur Analyse von Karten und (Schul)Atlanten als Vermittler von Weltbildern unter Globalisierungsprozessen (=Working paper series des SFB 1199 an der Universität Leipzig, Nr. 19)