Mapping
A Critical Introduction to Cartography and GIS
Critical Introductions to Geography
1. Edition January 2010
232 Pages, Softcover
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
1 Mapping landscape.
2 How to lie with maps.
3 Mapping and technology.
4 Critiques of GIS and cartography.
Interlude 1: The Peters projection controvery.
PART II WHY USE MAPS.
5 The communication model in the C20.
6 Emergence of thematic mapping in modern Europe.
7 Contemporary GIS as governmental rationality.
Interlude 2: Maps, silences, and secrecy.
Part III PRODUCING AND REPRESENTING THE LANDSCAPE.
8 Mapping and the production of space.
9 Producing the intangible: mapping cyberspace.
10 GIS and society.
Interlude 3: GIS and security.
PART IV TOWARDS A POLITICS OF GIS AND CARTOGRAPHY.
11 Genealogy and politics of GIS and cartography.
12 From the national body to the personal body.
13 Dwelling in the polis
