Description
Book SynopsisMapping: 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
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 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
