
Mobile Mapping
Space, Cartography and the Digital
Clancy Wilmott(Author)
Amsterdam University Press
Published on 12. March 2020
Book
Hardback
348 pages
978-94-6298-453-0 (ISBN)
Description
This book argues for a theory of mobile mapping, a situated and spatial approach towards researching how everyday digital mobile media practices are bound up in global systems of knowledge and power. Drawing from literature in media studies and geography -- and the work of Michel Foucault and Doreen Massey -- it examines how geographical and historical material, social, and cultural conditions are embedded in the way in which contemporary (digital) cartographies are read, deployed, and engaged. This is explored through seventeen walking interviews in Hong Kong and Sydney, as potent discourses like cartographic reason continue to transform and weave through the world in ways that haunt mobile mapping and bring old conflicts into new media. In doing so, Mobile Mapping offers an interdisciplinary rethinking about how multiple translations of spatial knowledges between rational digital epistemologies and tacit ways of understanding space and experience might be conceptualized and researched.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Academic
Illustrations
40 s/w Abbildungen
40 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
690 gr
ISBN-13
978-94-6298-453-0 (9789462984530)
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Clancy Wilmott is Assistant Professor in the Berkeley Centre for New Media and the Department of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley. She was previously Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Manchester, Vice-Chancellors Postdoctoral Research Fellow at RMIT University, and a Postdoctoral Researcher on European Research Council project Charting the Digital based at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies of the University of Warwick. Her research focuses on the relationship between digital tech nologies and spatial representation across cartography and new media.
Content
Part One: Maps, Mappers, Mapping
1. Introduction: mapping beyond the map
2. Tools: epistemologies, methodologies, an-archaeologies
Part Two: Space/Sydney
3. Other spaces
4. Unsettling spaces
Marianna/Landscapes
Kyja/Grids
Tanija/Infrastructures
5. Feeling spaces
Sarah/Hauntings
Nick/Intuitions
Shaun/Embodiments
6.Imagining spaces
Cliff/Stories
Benjamin/Possibilities
Cassie/Dreams
Part Three: Cartography/Cities
7. Drawing the line
8. Here, there be digits.
Part Four: Digital/Hong Kong
9. Other digitalities
10. Classifying the digital
Daren/Names
Ellen/Identities
Ravi/Numbers
Vicki/Lines
11. Stabilising the digital
Taylor/memories
Camillie/mobilities
Magdalna/natures
Mohammed/topographies
Part Five: Mobile Mapping
12. Conclusion: Endings and Beginnings
13. Index
1. Introduction: mapping beyond the map
2. Tools: epistemologies, methodologies, an-archaeologies
Part Two: Space/Sydney
3. Other spaces
4. Unsettling spaces
Marianna/Landscapes
Kyja/Grids
Tanija/Infrastructures
5. Feeling spaces
Sarah/Hauntings
Nick/Intuitions
Shaun/Embodiments
6.Imagining spaces
Cliff/Stories
Benjamin/Possibilities
Cassie/Dreams
Part Three: Cartography/Cities
7. Drawing the line
8. Here, there be digits.
Part Four: Digital/Hong Kong
9. Other digitalities
10. Classifying the digital
Daren/Names
Ellen/Identities
Ravi/Numbers
Vicki/Lines
11. Stabilising the digital
Taylor/memories
Camillie/mobilities
Magdalna/natures
Mohammed/topographies
Part Five: Mobile Mapping
12. Conclusion: Endings and Beginnings
13. Index