Mapping
A Critical Introduction to Cartography and GIS
1st Edition
Published on 22. January 2010
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-1-4051-2172-9 (ISBN)
Description
Mapping: A Critical Introduction to Cartography and GIS is an introduction to the critical issues surrounding mapping and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) across a wide range of disciplines for the non-specialist reader.
Examines the key influences Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and cartography have on the study of geography and other related disciplines
Represents the first in-depth summary of the "new cartography" that has appeared since the early 1990s
Provides an explanation of what this new critical cartography is, why it is important, and how it is relevant to a broad, interdisciplinary set of readers
Presents theoretical discussion supplemented with real-world case studies
Brings together both a technical understanding of GIS and mapping as well as sensitivity to the importance of theory
Examines the key influences Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and cartography have on the study of geography and other related disciplines
Represents the first in-depth summary of the "new cartography" that has appeared since the early 1990s
Provides an explanation of what this new critical cartography is, why it is important, and how it is relevant to a broad, interdisciplinary set of readers
Presents theoretical discussion supplemented with real-world case studies
Brings together both a technical understanding of GIS and mapping as well as sensitivity to the importance of theory
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 175 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
558 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4051-2172-9 (9781405121729)
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Jeremy W. Crampton is Associate Professor of Geography at Georgia State University, where he teaches cartography and political geography. He is the author of The Political Mapping of Cyberspace (2003) and Space, Knowledge and Power: Foucault and Geography (edited with Stuart Elden, 2007), and is the editor of the journal Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization.
Content
Acknowledgments vi
List of Figures viii
List of Tables xi
About the Cover: Size Matters xii
1 Maps - A Perverse Sense of the Unseemly 1
2 What Is Critique? 13
3 Maps 2.0: Map Mashups and New Spatial Media 25
4 What Is Critical Cartography and GIS? 39
5 How Mapping Became Scientific 49
6 Governing with Maps: Cartographic Political Economy 62
7 The Political History of Cartography Deconstructed: Harley, Gall, and Peters 81
8 GIS After Critique: What Next? 98
9 Geosurveillance and Spying with Maps 112
10 Cyberspace and Virtual Worlds 128
11 The Cartographic Construction of Race and Identity 144
12 The Poetics of Space: Art, Beauty, and Imagination 160
13 Epilogue: Beyond the Cartographic Anxiety? 177
References 185
Index 203
List of Figures viii
List of Tables xi
About the Cover: Size Matters xii
1 Maps - A Perverse Sense of the Unseemly 1
2 What Is Critique? 13
3 Maps 2.0: Map Mashups and New Spatial Media 25
4 What Is Critical Cartography and GIS? 39
5 How Mapping Became Scientific 49
6 Governing with Maps: Cartographic Political Economy 62
7 The Political History of Cartography Deconstructed: Harley, Gall, and Peters 81
8 GIS After Critique: What Next? 98
9 Geosurveillance and Spying with Maps 112
10 Cyberspace and Virtual Worlds 128
11 The Cartographic Construction of Race and Identity 144
12 The Poetics of Space: Art, Beauty, and Imagination 160
13 Epilogue: Beyond the Cartographic Anxiety? 177
References 185
Index 203