Mapping A Critical Introduction to Cartography and GIS
by Crampton, Jeremy W.Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-02-01
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary
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
Author Biography
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 Geovisulization.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. vi |
| List of Figures | p. viii |
| List of Tables | p. xi |
| About the Cover: Size Matters | p. xii |
| Maps - A Perverse Sense of the Unseemly | p. 1 |
| What is Critique? | p. 13 |
| Maps 2.0: Map Mashups and New Spatial Media | p. 25 |
| What is Critical Cartography and GIS? | p. 39 |
| How Mapping Became Scientific | p. 49 |
| Governing with Maps: Cartographic Political Economy | p. 62 |
| The Political History of Cartography Deconstructed: Harley, Gall, and Peters | p. 81 |
| GIS After Critique: What Next? | p. 98 |
| Geosurveillance and Spying with Maps | p. 112 |
| Cyberspace and Virtual Worlds | p. 128 |
| The Cartographic Construction of Race and Identity | p. 144 |
| The Poetics of Space: Art, Beauty, and Imagination | p. 160 |
| Epilogue: Beyond the Cartographic Anxiety? | p. 177 |
| References | p. 185 |
| Index | p. 203 |
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