Mapping
A Critical Introduction to Cartography and GIS
Critical Introductions to Geography
1. Auflage Januar 2010
232 Seiten, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
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
List of Figures.
List of Tables.
About the Cover: Size Matters.
1. Maps - A Perverse Sense of the Unseemly.
2. What Is Critique?.
3. Maps 2.0: Map Mashups and New Spatial Media.
4. What Is Critical Cartography and GIS?.
5. How Mapping Became Scientific.
6. Governing with Maps: Cartographic Political Economy.
7. The Political History of Cartography Deconstructed: Harley,
Gall, and Peters.
8. GIS After Critique: What Next?.
9. Geosurveillance and Spying with Maps.
10. Cyberspace and Virtual Worlds.
11. The Cartographic Construction of Race and Identity.
12. The Poetics of Space: Art, Beauty, and Imagination.
13. Epilogue: Beyond the Cartographic Anxiety?.
References.
Index
