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Sketch maps, despite their intuitive, informal appearance and seemingly naïve use, are intellectual devices and efficient tools that shape the geographical imagination, regardless of the drawing skills of their makers. By delineating the silhouettes of nations, we express territorial knowledge and geopolitical stereotypes that, although shaped at school from an early age, organized the way we interact with the world. why do we still need to draw maps? What is behind our common and naturalized practice of sketching maps? This innovative book deciphers why and how the intuitive mechanisms behind sketch mapping activate multiple conscious and unconscious knowledges about place and space.

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Contents Acknowledgements List of Figures Abstract Keywords  Introduction: Maps and Geography  1 The (Carto)graphic (Im)pulse  2 Maps for Education: from Academies to Schools  3 Instructions to Promote Graphic Skills to Learn Geography  4 Figures, Silhouettes, Geometrical Shapes and Geopolitical Imagination  Final Remarks: Open Questions to Be Answered  Bibliography  Index

Sketch Maps: Drawing the Geographical Imagination

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      Publisher: Brill
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 24/05/2023
      ISBN13: 9789004543676, 978-9004543676
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      Book Synopsis
      Sketch maps, despite their intuitive, informal appearance and seemingly naïve use, are intellectual devices and efficient tools that shape the geographical imagination, regardless of the drawing skills of their makers. By delineating the silhouettes of nations, we express territorial knowledge and geopolitical stereotypes that, although shaped at school from an early age, organized the way we interact with the world. why do we still need to draw maps? What is behind our common and naturalized practice of sketching maps? This innovative book deciphers why and how the intuitive mechanisms behind sketch mapping activate multiple conscious and unconscious knowledges about place and space.

      Table of Contents
      Contents Acknowledgements List of Figures Abstract Keywords  Introduction: Maps and Geography  1 The (Carto)graphic (Im)pulse  2 Maps for Education: from Academies to Schools  3 Instructions to Promote Graphic Skills to Learn Geography  4 Figures, Silhouettes, Geometrical Shapes and Geopolitical Imagination  Final Remarks: Open Questions to Be Answered  Bibliography  Index

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